I often end up with documents (especially documents generated by Adobe Acrobat) that have a large number of repetitive errors, like a "-" in the middle of a word, but I never know for sure if any particular error is common enough to merit going to the trouble to do a global find and replace. It would be nice if I could do that from within the spellchecker. Is there someway to tell the spellchecker as you are stepping through words that it flags to go ahead and replace some particular word with an alternative spelling throughout the entire document?

The older style spelling dialog box used to have a Change All button which did this. For some reason Microsoft seem to have removed this from the Pane that now pops up when doing a spell check.

Luckily, you can still do a spell check with the older dialog if you add the button to your Quick Access Toolbar. To do this, customise your QAT and in the Choose Commands from select All Commands. Then find the command called "Spelling..." and add it to your QAT. Then use that button to start a spell check.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

See also: Classic Spell Check Dialog - Macro or Add-In to use classic dialog rather than Editor