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Toggle navigation. If you want to globally turn off spell checking for your documents, you can do so by following these steps: Display the Word Options dialog box. In Word click the Office button and then click Word Options. In Word or later versions, display the File tab of the ribbon and then click Options. At the left side of the dialog box, click Proofing. See Figure 1. Figure 1. The Proofing options of the Word Options dialog box. Click OK. You do this by following these steps: Select the paragraph for which you want spell checking turned off.

Display the Review tab of the ribbon. For Word , find the Proofing group and click on Set Language. For Word and later versions, Language has its own group in the Review tab.

From the group select Language Set Proofing Language. Word displays the Language dialog box. Click on OK. Author Bio. Discover More. Printing Documents without Markup If you have a document with Track Changes turned on, you can accumulate quite a bit of “markup” in it.

Hyperlinks in Comments Need to add a hyperlink to a comment or note? More WordTips ribbon. Spell Checking Only Checking Grammar Word has a built-in spelling and grammar checker that can help reduce errors in your prose. Spell-Check Won’t Work Having problems making spell check work on a portion of your document? Need different advice for Word Please provide.

Ken, thank you – that is exactly what I need, and it works like a dream! Apologies for the late response, I’ve been away from my desk for a few days. ScreenRefresh End Sub. Thanks, Ken. I hadn’t realised that it’s always going on. In the light of what you say, what I’d love to find is a macro that toggles the squiggly lines on and off. I’m doing a translation at the moment with lots of foreign names with Eastern European characters. There are 25 chapters in this book and I’m making more than one pass, obviously, for each chapter, so cumulatively a macro would save quite a bit of time You cannot actually turn off spell checking, it is always running in background even when ‘Check Spelling as you type’ is cleared.

All this does is make the squiggly line underneath spelling errors non visible. I’ve tried writing one just by recording the keystrokes described above , but it didn’t seem to work, and nor did writing two separate ones, one for on and one for off.

Is this process somehow protected? Got a version of Word that uses the ribbon interface Word or later? This site is for you! If you use an earlier version of Word, visit our WordTips site focusing on the menu interface.

Visit the WordTips channel on YouTube. View the most recent newsletter. Toggle navigation. If you want to globally turn off spell checking for your documents, you can do so by following these steps: Display the Word Options dialog box.

In Word click the Office button and then click Word Options. In Word or later versions, display the File tab of the ribbon and then click Options.

At the left side of the dialog box, click Proofing. See Figure 1. The Proofing options of the Word Options dialog box. Click OK. You do this by following these steps: Select the paragraph for which you want spell checking turned off.

Display the Review tab of the ribbon. For Word , find the Proofing group and click on Set Language. For Word and later versions, Language has its own group in the Review tab. From the group select Language Set Proofing Language. Version: Word It feels so wrong that you still have to select one of the languages even if none of them fits. I am missing something like Unknown, Other or Data in the list of languages. Show 1 more comment.

Mick Mick 1, 6 6 gold badges 34 34 silver badges 60 60 bronze badges. That was my first idea, but I couldn’t find any options to disable spellchecking. M4N and Mick in Word don’t know which version you’re using M4N, but I’ve got this handy this is where you find the options when editing a style i. You can also get there from Tools-Language-Set Language on the menu bar, but I’d advise using a specifically designed style for your code inserts. See my edit – that might do the trick.

Modifying the style does not affect the pre-existing paragraphs. To retroactively apply the changes to the existing paragraphs: Right-click the style, Select All xx Instance s , then select the style again to reapply.

I use this method when M4N ‘s answer doesn’t work and it works fine — golimar. You can find detailed answer for each MS Office program at MS Office Support: The spelling and grammar checker isn’t working as expected : In Office , Office , and Office Select the text that you want the spelling and grammar checker to ignore.

Select the Do not check spelling or grammar check box. In Office Select the text that you want the spelling and grammar checker to ignore. After selecting Do not check spelling or grammar check box, I’ve found very useful the option to create a new style from selection: In Word , you can create a special style that is based on the selected text: Right-click the selection, and then click Save Selection as a New Quick Style.

Give the style a name—for example, code—and then click OK. Alfredo Capobianchi Alfredo Capobianchi 31 6 6 bronze badges. No, you can however select it and then assign a specific langugae to it. Tamara Wijsman Tamara Wijsman Edy Edy 1 1 1 bronze badge. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password.

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Final Thoughts Spell check is a cool feature of Word that speeds up your productivity. Show 1 more comment. M4N M4N 5, 6 6 gold badges 28 28 silver badges 30 30 bronze badges. All Microsoft’s PowerToys for Windows. Is this process somehow protected?