Thanks for your help. I played around with having only one protect.
this is what finally worked.

Sub Spellcheck_Click()

ActiveSheet.Unprotect Password:="**"
Cells.CheckSpelling SpellLang:=1033
ActiveSheet.Protect Password:="**", DrawingObjects:=True,
Contents:=True, Scenarios:=True _
, AllowFormattingRows:=True

End Sub


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