An interesting problem cropped up here. We've resolved it, but I'm curious about the underlying issue. Perhaps someone has an insight:

In documents based on one custom template, the custom body text style had stopped showing spelling errors. The paragraph style's set-up parameters seemed to be fine. Trying various operations, I discovered that the style had somehow gotten a character style invisibly "inlaid," which, once removed from selected text (Ctrl+Spacebar), brought forth the wavy red line. However, neither importing the same style from a template in which the style was working properly, nor deleting the problem one and then importing the good one, worked. We ended up recreating the template from a similar one in which the style was working.

Anyone have ideas about the "mechanics" of this?

I'm not terribly familiar with styles in Word, so I'm not sure if we're talking about the same thing. However, I have had particular Word documents that I used as blanks for other things that repeatedly turned off my spell checking and grammar checking without me specifying it. I could only turn the checkers back on by going to the "set language" menu. Then, when I am using the same document a couple of times later, the checker turns off again. I haven't had this problem in a couple of years, so I was thinking an update must have fixed it.

Hi Ulodesk,

Was the character Style's language set to 'no proofing'?

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Hi, Paul. Style inspector only reveals the paragraph style; reveal formatting shows the character style as Default Paragraph Font, but doesn't appear to offer any options to find out what else is operating. What do I not know about discovering whether the hidden character style has no proofing set?

Thanks.

Hi Ulodesk,

If you use the Style Inspector with a whole paragraph selected and there's a Character Style applied to some of the contents, the 'text level formatting' panel will be empty - you'd need to select just an affected word.

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