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Thanks for your suggestions Steve - Sticky Function Key is the obvious that gets forgotten .... unfortunately not this time Repair install was a good idea too but again unfortunately it did not work. Seems I have to reformat etc etc which is a pain - only fear is that Office 2010 may do same again so looks like a downgrade.

In Office 2010 (on Windows 7 Professional 64bit) - mainly affecting Outlook and Excel - I open files and it starts a forced spellcheck as soon as I type any character. Regardless of how I respond it ends up with "spell check complete" but will not let me continue or exit - just loops back to this message. Only way out is Task Manager to end program but when re-open gives same problem. Rebooting has no effect. Eventually, sometimes after an hour or more, it self corrects and may not happen again for a few hours then "here we go again" ! Have turned off spellcheck both generically and specifically on programs but no effect. Have also uninstalled and reinstalled Office 2010 - that helped for less than 24 hours before it started again. All Windows Updates done - still the same. Any ideas ? Thanks Guys.