Mike Lewis
Thank you Mike for your information on another way to deal with spellchecking. I will play with this and provide feedback. I am not enamored with the call to WORD and although it works for me since I have MS Office installed, how about providing a copy of the program to a...
AndrewMozley I believe all you need to do is turn on the "visible" property which Mike's code actually does. Again, in my case, where I just want to spellcheck a single word, I want WORD to be as quiet as possible. BTW, and I didn't say this previously, my interest in spellchecking is because...
My particular requirement was to spell check a single word but you certainly can pass multiple words in a given call to the spell checker. Text box, edit box, should not matter.
Vernpace:
I BELIEVE Office 365 comes in both a WEB version and a desktop version. I am running the desktop version and, when you start WORD, it clearly calls itself WORD 365. I agree with your assessment that the WEB version cannot accomplish automation.
Thanks for the response Mike.
Just after I wrote my initial post, I kept fiddling with this and (don't ask me why) but if you send the argument to WORD in lower case, it works perfectly! Haven't followed this up, but MAYBE WORD considers upper case to be sacred (always correct) in some...
I found what I thought was the perfect solution to spellchecking individual words using automation of MS WORD from VFP9 (SP2). When I started using it, it worked PERFECTLY, then, all of a sudden, it quit. "QUIT" meaning WORD was always returning a TRUE condition even when the word in question...
Brand new to Tek-Tips so sorry if I am a bit clumsy. Just trying to write a small program in VFP9 to add existing contacts to a new contact group. Reason for automation is that there are THOUSANDS of contacts and I need to get them into reasonably small groups so my email provider doesn't flag...
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