Grammar check into legacy forms > Text form field.

Eduardo Care · #1 09-09-2015, 01:18 PM

Hello people

.

Is it there any way to let word check grammar mistakes into a text form field into a protected document "fill in forms"??

If it is possible can someone tell me how, please.

Thanks in advance.

macropod · #2 09-09-2015, 02:55 PM

Spell-check and grammar-check are both disabled when forms protection is applied. If you really need those functions, a macro could be used to unprotect the document, check the spelling/grammar, then re-protect it afterwards. That approach is fairly inflexible, though and relies on the user both recognising the need to check their spelling/grammar and choosing to do so.

Eduardo Care · #3 09-09-2015, 03:11 PM

Thanks for your time and the answer Paul, as you propose, i have to use a macro for it.

While searching around some sites i found the following:

Code:

Sub myTotalCheckSpelling() 
    Dim iCnt As Integer 
     
    With Application.ActiveDocument 
         'Unprotect if protected
        If .ProtectionType <> wdNoProtection Then _ 
        .Unprotect Password:="" 
         
         'Loop all formfields
        For iCnt = 1 To .FormFields.Count 
             'Select formfield
            .FormFields(iCnt).Select 
             
            #If VBA6 Then 
                 'Only Word > 2000
                Selection.NoProofing = False 
            #End If 
             'Set Language
            Selection.LanguageID = wdEnglishUK 
             'Run spell checker
            Selection.Range.CheckSpelling 
        Next 
         
         'Reprotect without resetting the fields
        .Protect Type:=wdAllowOnlyFormFields, Noreset:=True, Password:="" 
         
        MsgBox "Demo all fields spell check completed", vbInformation 
    End With 
End Sub

Which suites my needs perfectly.

Also for other people having the same problem, they might find this information interesting:

http://word.mvps.org/faqs/macrosvba/...ProtectDoc.htm

Have a good day everyone.

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