You must unprotect the sheet, spellcheck then re-protect the sheet.

Sub Spell_Check()
ActiveSheet.Unprotect Password:="justme"
Cells.CheckSpelling SpellLang:=1033
ActiveSheet.Protect Password:="justme", DrawingObjects:=True, _
Contents:=True, Scenarios:=True
End Sub

Note: was written using xl2003 so you may have to change the 1033 to accomodate
xl2000. Never having used xl2000 I'm am not sure about that.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP


On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 08:51:01 -0700, MarkB
wrote:

I have a lot of forms made using excel 2000. The sheets are protected but
cells that can be filled in are not locked. I have just noticed that the
spell check is disabled whilst the sheet is locked. Has anyone come across
this? and is there a fix/workaround?

Thanks