In developing an application for Word which sends e-mail messages using Outlook, I came across an issue that I have not been able to resolve. Hopefully someone will have a plan :) With Outlook's options configured to spell check the message before sending, each message processed creates the message 'Word finished checking the selection. Do you want to continue the remainder of the document' which requires user intervention. Clearly if the option is switched off in Outlook, the message doesn't occur. As I have no control over whether users have this option set or not, I would like to switch off the spell checkling for the duration of the process and thus avoid the need for user interaction. Solutions posted on the web all seem to revolve around setting the registry entry associated with the option - along the lines of Dim myWS As Object Dim RegKey As String Dim Key As String Dim Ver As Variant Ver = Application.version Key = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\" _ & Ver & "\Outlook\Options\Spelling\Check" Set myWS = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") 'Read key from registry RegKey = myWS.RegRead(Key) 'Write new value myWS.Regwrite Key, 0 'send message 'Write back original value myWS.Regwrite Key, RegKey While this certainly changes the registry, it has no effect on the problem unless Outlook is closed and restarted. Does anyone know of a way to suppress this message from vba that does not involve restarting Outlook? My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>