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Microsoft Word Won’t Spell Check? 4 Ways to Turn it Back on
Select the correct language for editing and proofreading
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Updated onOctober 4, 2023
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The spell checker is a usefulfeature in Office 365 apps; it allows you to spot and correct wrongly spelled words without using external grammar or spelling software. Further, if this feature stops working, errors in your document won’t be highlighted.
This article briefly discusses the common causes of Microsoft spell-check errors and provides four ways to help you fix the error.
Why is Microsoft Word not checking the spelling?
Some of the causes of this issue are:
Regardless of the cause, try to follow the steps below to troubleshoot.
How do I fix Windows Spelling checker in Word?
Before proceeding with more advanced solutions, here are a couple of quick fixes you should try:
If the error remains unfixed, the following are advanced troubleshooting steps to help you fix the Word spell check error:
1. Make sure the correct language is selected
If your Word document contains multiple languages, you have to select your preferred language to be used by the spell check; this will help you fix the spell check not working in Word.
Also you can also check out how tochange the language settings in Windows.
2. Enable the Spell check feature
If you’re sure the correct language is set in Word, you’ll have to check if spell check is enabled. By default, the feature is automatically turned on, but sometimes, it can be disabled manually by you or other users.
If you want toturn on the spell check feature on Outlook, check out the quick guide.
3. Disable the spelling exceptions
Microsoft Word allows users to set proofing exceptions for selected documents; spell check won’t function on that page if your current document belongs to that exception list.
4. Disable the add-ins
If you have third-party tools like Grammarly installed in Word, it can prevent the Word spell check from functioning correctly.
Here is a guide showing you how to fixOffice 365 unable to acquire add-ins.
Spell check is a cool feature of Microsoft Word that improves productivity by reducing the time spent editing documents. To further improve your workflow, you canturn on autocorrect in Windowstoo.
If the feature is not working, we hope the steps listed in this article will get it up and running quickly.
Should you have further suggestions, feel free to drop them in the comments section.
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Loredana Harsana
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Loredana is a passionate writer with a keen interest in PC software and technology. She started off writing about mobile phones back when Samsung Galaxy S II was on top of the world and she fell in love with tech of all sorts.
Whenever she’s not at her work desk, you’ll find her enjoying refreshing tea flavors, spilling stories on paper, and listening to the radio.
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