Pulling Out Spelling Errors

Hi Allen
this is Edgar,

I have found your macro and it is a great help.
However, this only pulls out the spelling errors, i.e. geographical errors, not the grammatical errors.

Maybe you know VB well enough to tell me what the script should look like.
Another thing that bothers me is that an extra document is always opened (in the code above). How would I have to rewrite it to append the errors below the existing text?
Thank you a thousand times!

I am trying my hand at proofreading and came across your GetSpellingErrors macro listed below which I am finding very helpful.

Sub GetSpellingErrors()
Dim DocThis As Document
Dim iErrorCnt As Integer
Dim J As Integer

Set DocThis = ActiveDocument
Documents.Add

iErrorCnt = DocThis.SpellingErrors.Count
For J = 1 To iErrorCnt
Selection.TypeText Text:=DocThis.SpellingErrors(J)
Selection.TypeParagraph
Next J
End Sub

I can think of a few things that could help me but I am hopeless with Word Vba. I think some of my suggestions are possibly easy and wonder if anyone can help please


It would help me if each error could be sequentially numbered. I find sometimes word underlines a word that is not a spelling error but the word may be used several hundred times in the document. This is making it difficult to find the example that is highlighted. Numbering would help locate the problem

If the count problem is difficult would it be possible to add the page number where the error occurs. This would be very useful

I am wondering if the opening of two word documents at the same time would be partly responsible for the length of time that the macro takes to run. 15-20 minutes is about the average and I am suspicious that these take up a lot of memory. Could the output be sent to a specified unopened text file to minimise the time being taken to process the macro

Thanks

Many Thanks for this code..It is very useful for my typing practice in word...

Is it possible to do this for the context spelling errors, ie correct spelling wrong context?

Very useful tip, many thanks.

I have just found the GetSpellingErrors macro, it generally works very well. For some reason it seems to be picking some words incorrectly. e.g. in a 385 page document I was analyzing it picked out the word "on". To find that error I had to use the "Find" to go through but of course it picks up every occurrence including Son,won, gone etc. This would take forever to find as there are many "Finds" on every page. I used several dodges and eventually found the error but it still took time.
Three questions.
1. Would it be possible to print the page location with the text.
2. Would it be possible to improve the highlight so it would easily be seen. e.g. color the background or change Font color of the word
3. The example I gave above was a grammar error, Would it be possible to search only spelling problems not grammar