Word 95: "No Proofing" Message in Document with Fields

 Last reviewed: February 5, 1998
Article ID: Q132918
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Word for Windows 95, version 7.0, 7.0a

SYMPTOMS

When you check the spelling of a document containing fields, this message appears when the spell checking is done: 

   The spelling check is complete. Text formatted with (no proofing) was
   skipped.
Or, when you type a new field and update it (by pressing CTRL+F9, typing the field name, and updating the field), the entire field is formatted as "(no proofing)."

CAUSE

Word automatically formats fields with the "(no proofing)" language property. The message appears to let you know that Word did not check the spelling of some text in the document.

STATUS

This behavior is by design; field names are not recognized by the spelling checker. Formatting them as "(no proofing)" prevents the spelling checker from stopping to spell check them, since they are already spelled correctly.

For information on how to spell check your document without resetting form fields, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 

   ARTICLE-ID: Q119698
   TITLE     : Form Fields Lose Text When Protected for Forms

MORE INFORMATION

The following fields are marked "(no proofing)": 

   =                        NEXT
   ADDIN                    NEXTIF
   AUTHOR                   NUMCHARS
   AUTONUM                  NUMPAGES
   AUTONUMLGL               NUMWORDS
   AUTONUMOUT               PAGE
   BARCODE                  PAGEREF
   COMPARE                  PRINT
   CREATEDATE               PRINTDATE
   DATA                     PRIVATE
   DATABASE                 RD
   DATE                     REVNUM
   DDE                      SAVEDATE
   DDEAUTO                  SECTIONPAGES
   EDITTIME                 SEQ
   EQ                       SET
   FILENAME                 SKIPIF
   FILESIZE                 STYLEREF
   FORMCHECKBOX             SYMBOL
   FORMTEXT                 TA
   FTNREF                   TC
   IF                       TEMPLATE
   INCLUDEPICTURE           TIME
   INDEX                    TOA
   LASTSAVEDBY              TOC
   MACROBUTTON              USERADDRESS
   MERGEREC                 USERINITIALS
   MERGESEQ                 USERNAME
The following fields are marked with the language of the Word program they were created with: 

   ADVANCE                  INCLUDETEXT
   ASK                      INFO
   AUTOTEXT                 KEYWORDS
   COMMENTS                 LINK
   DOCPROPERTY              MERGEFIELD
   DOCVARIABLE              NOTEREF
   EMBED                    QUOTE
   FILLIN                   REF
   FORMDROPDOWN             SECTION
   GLOSSARY                 SUBJECT
   GOTOBUTTON               SUBSCRIBER
   IMPORT                   TITLE
   INCLUDE                  XE

KBCategory: kbusage
KBSubcategory: kbproof
Additional reference words: word95 7.0 form forms word7 winword
Keywords : kbproof
Version : 7.0 7.0a
Platform : WINDOWS

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Last reviewed: February 5, 1998
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