I have a word documents with text fields where you are allowed to type. Because the document is protected you can not perform a spell check or have formatting options. However, you can unprotect the sheet (no password required), do your spell check and format how you like, but when you reprotect you are unable to type in those same text fields. How do you get by this?

Give this a shot:

Google Answers: Microsoft Word: How Can I Spell Check a Filled-In Form? (http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/449473.html)

Or

How to enable Spell Checker in a protected document (http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/SpellcheckProtectDoc.htm)