# MS Office integration question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-office-integration-question/44361>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 6, 2000, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-office-integration-question/44361 "2000-12-06T20:13:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-office-integration-question/44361/1 "2000-12-06T20:13:56Z")

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I’m trying to take sentences written and formatted in Excel and spell and _grammar_ check them. I have some problems:

1. Excel does not seem to have a grammar checker.

2. If you paste them into Word, you can grammar check them, BUT if you paste them back into Excel, the formatting (underlines, etc.) is gone.

3. If I have all of the above right, and it’s unavoidable, I need to be able to have a macro to take the word from column A and find it in the cell to the right (in column B), and underline _only_ that word.

Any bright ideas? Thanks.

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**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-office-integration-question/44361/2 "2000-12-06T20:19:15Z")

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Hire a temp.