This is a fresh build of XP/SP3, Office 2002. The spellchecker doesn't flag words on the fly, it also passes everything with a manual check. MS Powerpoint spellchecker on the same machine works fine. The only think that's different on this machine that I've done is that I enabled the Spanish and French languages in the "Office Xp Language settings" although there were already a slew of languages enabled in there beyond English. Thanks,