>When you say this what do you mean? If you produce a test doc with clearly misspelled words and put the cursor at the >start of the doc and select spell check from teh menu what happens?
Absolutely nothing... No feedback whatsoever... >Do you hjave a dictrionary installed? Yes I have the dictionaries I need installed (3 of them) >ON the other hand if you are trying to change ispell to aspell in the preferences then this wont work. It always says I spell. Ok but that was not really my main goal. >Is the reader open before the call to view pdf? Try closing acrobat andf then selecting preview in lyx. No the reader was not started. I have tried this but to no avail, Thank you! Primrose