How to cancel spell check in Word. Enable and configure spell checking in Microsoft Word

Taking advantage of so powerful word processor, it’s stupid to turn to a dictionary to correctly spell controversial words and phrases. Let Word do this thankless job! But the editor does not react to outright provocations and pretends that our writing is an example of literacy in the Russian language. Realizing that this is impossible, we ask ourselves: how to enable spell checking in Microsoft Word? The answer is below.

Automatic spell check

To enable this function, click “File” – “Options” – “Spelling”. In the window that appears, mark required fields check mark and click the “Save” button.

Attention! If you use a different Cyrillic keyboard layout (Ukrainian or Belarusian) to type Russian words, all the typed text may be underlined with an error. Be careful!

Adding unknown words

To add similar words to the software dictionary and exclude its underlining in the future, you need to select it (or a phrase), press RMB and context menu select "Add to dictionary". When you click on the “Skip” option, this lexical structure will no longer be highlighted in this document.

Attention! All of the methods discussed for enabling spelling work in versions starting with Microsoft Word 2007 and later.

Enable spell checkers

If for some reason, when checking spelling, a notification appears with the text “Spell checking completed” or “Spell checkers for the language are not installed,” you need to do the following:

1. Go to “This PC” – “Uninstall or change a program”.
   
   
2. In the list of applications, find Microsoft Office, click on it and click the “Change” button.
   
   
3. In the window that appears, select “Add or remove components” and click “Continue”.
   
   
4. Go to “Office General Tools” – “Spelling Checkers” – “Russian Spelling Checkers” – “Spelling and Grammar Checker”. By clicking on the button (as shown in the screenshot) and calling up the context menu, select “Run from my computer”.

   Enable spell checking for the selected language

   If you type in other languages, spell checking may not work. To enable it you need:

   
   

   Now you can be 90% confident in the literacy of your text. But after learning how to turn on spell checking in Word, don't forget to watch out for neologisms and those words that are not in the editor's database or have multiple meanings.

Word - perhaps best solution for typing and editing text documents. Among the many features of this program, one of the most useful is spelling and grammar checking.

But many users have problems with this function. In this article we will talk about how to enable spell checking in Word 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016.

Turn on automatic spell checking in Word

By default, the Word text editor always automatically checks spelling. If this does not happen for you, then most likely this function is simply turned off in the settings. In order to turn back spell checking in Word, you need to click on the “File” button in the upper left corner of the program and select “Options” in the menu that opens.

In the screenshots below we will demonstrate what the “File” menu looks like in Word 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016.

File menu in Word 2007

File menu in Word 2010

File menu in Word 2013, 2016

After you have opened “Word Options”, you need to go to the “Spelling” section and enable functions there that are related to spell checking in Word.

• Check spelling while typing;
• Use contextual spell checking;
• Mark grammar errors while typing;
• When checking spelling, also check grammar;

It should be noted that these functions may be called slightly differently in your Word versions. Also, do not forget that settings changes must be saved using the “Ok” button.

Manually running spell check in Word

You can also manually enable spell checking in Word. To do this, you need to select the text for which you want to run a check, go to the “Review” tab and click on the “Spelling” button.

As a result, the “ Spelling” window should open, in which you can check the spelling of the text word by word. Words in which the Word text editor finds errors will be highlighted in red. In this case, several options for spelling this word will be offered under the text. In order to correct this word, you need to select one of the replacement options and click on the “Replace” button.

If you think the word is spelled correctly, you can skip it. There is a “Skip” button for this.

Also, using the “Add” button, you can add a correctly spelled word to the dictionary.

Words that have been added to the dictionary by the user will no longer be marked as errors by Word.

How to Change the Spell Check Language in Word

If the spell check is performed according to the rules of another language, then you need to change the language of the text. To do this, select the text that is not being checked correctly and click on the language name at the bottom of the Word window.

After this, a small “Language” window will appear. Here you need to select the language according to the rules of which the spell check should be performed, and click on the “Ok” button.

Also, using the “Language” window, you can completely disable spell checking for the selected part of the text. To do this, you need to select the text, click on the name of the language, and in the “Language” window turn on the “ Don't check spelling».

Everyone makes mistakes. IN in this case We are talking about spelling errors. When writing, and especially when typing in text editors, the user may make a mistake when typing this or that word. This happens by various reasons, such as ignorance of the rules of the Russian language or a simple typo due to speed dial. But in times of technological progress text editors capable of automatic mode identify all errors and suggest ways to solve them.

This article will talk about how to enable spell checking in Word, how to use it, and much more that somehow relates to correcting typos in typed text.

Turn on spell checking

Initially, you should pay attention to the question of how to enable spell checking in Word. Although it is enabled by default after installation, for some reasons the user may disable it without realizing it. In such cases, use the instructions below to get this tool working again.

1. While on home page program, click the "File" button, which is located in the upper left corner.
2. In the menu that appears, go to the "Options" section.
3. In the window that appears, click on the “Spelling” item located in the panel on the left.
4. In the menu "When using spelling, all the checkboxes next to the items.
5. In the "File Exceptions" menu, uncheck the boxes that are located there.
6. Click OK.

Now you know how to enable automatic check spelling. After completing all these steps, there is no need to restart the program; all changes take effect immediately after clicking the "OK" button.

Check spelling automatically

Once you have found out where to enable spell checking in Word, you can immediately proceed directly to using this tool. First of all, we will analyze the execution of all actions in automatic mode. This does not mean that you will not have to do anything; on the contrary, the program will automatically point out possible spelling errors to you, and you will decide what needs to be done to correct them.

So, suppose you have a document open in front of you that has errors. In this case, they are underlined with colored lines (red, blue or green). To start correcting them, you need to open the Spelling toolbar. To do this, press the F7 key or the "Spelling" button, which is located in the "Review" tab.

After this, the “Spelling” panel will appear on the right side of the window, in which all actions will take place. Immediately the problematic word will be highlighted in the text, and you will need to decide what to do with it. There are four actions to choose from:

1. Skip - you skip the expected error and move on to the next word, and the highlight disappears from it.
2. Skip all - you skip all errors in the text, deselecting them.
3. Add - you add a word to the program dictionary so that if the same error is found, the program does not perceive it.
4. Change - you change the misspelled word to the one selected from the list of suggested ones.
5. Change all - you change all similar misspelled words to the one selected from the list.

Knowing the meaning of all the buttons on the panel, you can easily correct all errors in the text. As a last resort, if none of the corrections are correct, you can replace the word yourself.

Checking spelling manually

You already know how to enable automatic mode. However, this is not the only way to correct all errors in the text. Now we will look in detail at how to enable spell checking in Word manually.

To complete the task, you must initially pay attention to the underlinings themselves in the text. We already know that these are mistakes. You can fix them not only by pressing F7, but also by pressing the right mouse button (RMB). This is done simply: move the cursor over the underlined word and press RMB; in the context menu, in addition to the usual items, additional items will appear that duplicate the buttons in the “Spelling” panel; you already know their meaning. All that remains is to select the required action and click on the corresponding line.

Conclusion

Now you know not only how to enable spell checking in Word, but also how to use it. As you can see, the essence is simple, you just need to indicate required action, and the program will replace everything on its own.