
If your word document does not highlight the spelling and grammatical errorsthen probably you can check the settings mentioned below.

Disable highlighting spelling and grammatical errors Under this section there are check box available to hide spelling errors and grammar errors. Navigate to Proofing Options and scroll down Exception for section. (In Word 2007 it is under Office button –> Word Options) Word users can hide spelling and grammar errors clicking File menu –> Options link.
#Activate spell check in word how to#
How to hide spelling and grammar errors in Word If there no more errors left in the document then you should notice the following Spelling and grammar complete message. In case you want to change the language used for Spell Check to English (United Kingdom) then you can use the language box available at the bottom of Spelling and Grammar sidebar. Once you choose either Ignore or Change, the next error will be display and this process would continue till there are no more errors left in the document. This should provide you with an option to Ignore or Change the error as shown in the above screenshot along with the suggestion. If there any errors in the document then you should see a sidebar showing the error staring from the current page. Let us say you want to run through a document for spelling and grammatical errors then you can navigate to Review menu and click the Spelling and Grammar option under Proofing section. The Review menu in Word 2013 has the option to check for spelling and grammar errors.

Find below the screen shot for the same Spelling and grammar check in Word 2016, Word 2013 and Word 2010 Updated with readers comment, this seems to have solved the problem for most of the users- Thank You Maria. By checking this field, you can turn on the automatic spell check as you type in Word 2010. This has a checkbox with label as Check spelling as you type.

Select Proofing options and navigate to When correcting spelling and grammar in Word section. This feature can be turned on or off using Microsoft Word options.Ĭlick on the File menu –> Options (In Word 2007 it is under Office button –> Word Options) In general Microsoft Office products provides options for automatic spell checkand you can find this feature in Word 2007, Word 2010, Word 2013 and Word 2016.
