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How do I programmatically turn off the wavy red lines in a Microsoft Word document via VBA?

Is there anyway to disable spell checking on a per document basis via VBA for MS Word?

Solution

  • You can mark the current document as already spell-checked:

    ActiveDocument.SpellingChecked = True

    or you can disable spell checking for a range of text:

    ActiveDocument.Range.NoProofing = True

    You can also simply disable the display of the red squiggles:

    ActiveDocument.ShowSpellingErrors = False

    Note that the same things can be done for grammar-checking (green squiggles); e.g.:

    ActiveDocument.GrammarChecked = True

    will mark the current document as already grammar-checked, thus effectively disabling it.