I'm trying to spell check a book I downloaded for validation, but Word says that certain text has been marked and will be skipped during the spell check. It then doesn't spell check anything. I went into Tools, Options, and tried resetting the spell checker. Now, I no longer receive this message, but Word still won't spell check the document. I already know there are errors, because I went and changed all the 1's to I's, and found misspellings of Laurell K. Hamilton on the page headers. How do I convince Word that I really do want to spell check the entire document, despite what it thinks? Thanks, Lora --- No good deed goes unpunished, No act of charity goes unresented Eleka nahmen nahmen Ah tum ah tum eleka nahmen Eleka nahmen nahmen Ah tum ah tum eleka nahmen