I appreciate your reply, but I seem to have failed to adequately describe my quest. i am interested in finding misspelled words after Word has already marked them as 'misspelled' (by underlining them with the 'wavy red line' - which means, I guess, that I would search for the 'marker' that triggers the display of the 'wavy red underline'. I do not wish to re-invent any wheels, i.e., do another spell-check after Word has already done one; I simply want, under program (VBA) control, to examine/edit the text that has already been underlined with the 'WRL' . I understand that such a process wouldn't be 100% accurate, but it might whittle a herculean task down to proportions that would reasonably allow for subsequent manual processing.

I hope this makes my situation more clear.

Thanks again for your interest and attention.