If your documents use words from other languages or are crawling with technical jargon and abbreviations, you may want Word to skip that text when marking misspelled words or performing a normal spelling check. Fortunately, that's easy to do: highlight text you want the spelling checker to skip, and then select Tools-Language-Set Language. In Word 97, choose (no proofing) from the 'Mark selected text as' list in the Language dialog box and click OK (see FIGURE 2). In Word 2000, select Do not check spelling or grammar in the same dialogue box and click OK.

George Campbell