Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office system (version 3.0)
How to: Check Spelling in Documents

Applies to

The information in this topic applies only to the specified Visual Studio Tools for Office projects and versions of Microsoft Office.

Project type

  • Document-level projects

  • Application-level projects

Microsoft Office version

  • Word 2003

  • Word 2007

For more information, see Features Available by Application and Project Type.

To check the spelling in a document, use the CheckSpelling method. This method returns a Boolean value that indicates whether the supplied parameter is spelled correctly.

To check spelling and display results in a message box

  • Call the CheckSpelling method and pass it a range of text to check for spelling errors. To use this code example, run it from the ThisDocument or ThisAddIn class in your project.

    Visual Basic 
    Dim result As String = "Spelled incorrectly."

If Me.Application.CheckSpelling(Me.Range.Text) = True Then
    result = "Spelled correctly."
End If

MessageBox.Show(result)
    C# 
    string result = "Spelled incorrectly.";

object startLocation = this.Content.Start;
object endLocation = this.Content.End;

bool spellCheck = this.Application.CheckSpelling(
    this.Range(ref startLocation, ref endLocation).Text,
    ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing,
    ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing);

if (spellCheck == true)
{
    result = "Spelled correctly.";
}

MessageBox.Show(result);
See Also

Tasks

How to: Define and Select Ranges in Documents

Concepts

The Variable missing and Optional Parameters in Office Solutions
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