Microsoft Word performs automatic check spelling and grammatical errors while writing the text. Words spelled incorrectly, but contained in the program's dictionary, can be automatically replaced with the correct ones (if the autocorrect function is enabled), and the built-in dictionary also offers its own spelling options. Those words and phrases that are not in the dictionary are underlined with wavy red and blue lines, depending on the type of error.

It is worth saying that highlighting errors, as well as their automatic correction, are possible only if this parameter enabled in the program settings and, as mentioned above, it is enabled by default. However, for some reason this parameter may not be active, that is, it may not work. Below we will talk about how to enable spell checking in MS Word.

1. Open the menu "File"(in earlier versions of the program you need to click the button "MS Office").

2. Find and open the item there "Options"(previously “Word Options”).

3. In the window that appears in front of you, select the section "Spelling".

4. Check all the boxes in the section “When correcting spelling in Word”, and also uncheck the boxes in the section “File Exceptions”, if any are installed there. Click "OK" to close the window "Options".

Note: Check mark next to the item “Show readability statistics” may not be installed.

5. Spell checking in Word (spelling and grammar) will be enabled for all documents, including those that you will create in the future.

Note: In addition to misspelled words and phrases, text editor also highlights words unknown to him that are not in the built-in dictionary. This dictionary is common to all programs in the package Microsoft Office. In addition to unknown words, a red wavy line also underlines those words that are written in a language other than the main language of the text and/or the language active in this moment spelling pack.

Advice: To add an underlined word to the program’s dictionary and thereby exclude its underlining, right-click on it, and then select “Add to dictionary”. If necessary, you can skip checking for a given word by selecting the appropriate item.

That's all, from this short article you learned why Word does not highlight errors and how to fix it. Now all incorrectly written words and phrases will be underlined, which means you will see where you made a mistake and can correct it. Master Word and don't make mistakes.

Word - perhaps The best decision 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

Default, text Word 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 named slightly differently in your version of Word. 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 enable the function “ Don't check spelling».

When writing an article, the Word text editor underlines words, thereby indicating grammatical or punctuation errors. If a word is misspelled and already exists in the program dictionary, the word will be replaced (if autocorrect is enabled). There are cases when you need to check spelling in Word, but autocorrect is not turned on and the program does not underline words with mistakes at all. In this case, let's look at how to check a document for errors in words and punctuation.

Setting up automatic text checking

To automatically highlight places with spelling and grammatical errors, you need to:

1. Go to the “File” tab and click on “Options”;
2. In the left panel of the new window, select “Spelling”;
3. In the “When correcting Word spelling” area, check the boxes “Check spelling as you type,” “Use... spell checker,” or “Mark grammar errors...”;
4. You can check all the boxes in this subsection, since all of the listed variations will help in working with text.

Attention! If Word has stopped highlighting errors with a red line, then you must uncheck the boxes in the “Exceptions for file” subsection. Go to “File” - “Options” - “Spelling” and finally “Exception for file”. Uncheck the lines “Hide spelling and grammar... in this document.”

After this setting, the document will highlight not only spelling errors, but also punctuation errors.

How to enable automatic error checking

Thanks to this function, you can easily fix all errors at once. You can turn on “Check spelling and grammar in the text” using the F7 button or go to the “Review” tab - in the “Spelling” section - click on “Spelling”.

A new window will open and the first error made will pop up. You can correct it directly in the “Not in the dictionary” area, or specify the desired form in the “Options” section and click replace.

Attention! MS Word does not automatically correct punctuation marks. Therefore, if you see a green or blue wavy line throughout the text, you will need to make changes yourself, that is, manually. Moreover, the program gives hints after which word is missing a comma.

Next, a new window will pop up with a new error and this will continue until all errors are corrected. After all the changes, a window will pop up notifying you that the spelling check is complete, click on “Ok”.

Word will then provide readability statistics. We hide this notification by clicking on “Ok”.

Manual error checking

A red underline means the word is likely misspelled or the phrase is unfamiliar. Word program and is not included in the dictionary. You can easily correct errors manually, as follows:

1) Right-click on the highlighted word and select the correct option in the window that opens.

2) Add a new word for Word to the program dictionary. Right-click on the incorrect word and select “Add to Dictionary” and the underline will disappear. If you continue to use this word, the underline will not appear.

3) Find the book with a cross at the bottom of the Word program (if there are errors) and click.

The correct spelling options will appear, you need to indicate the correctly spelled word.

How to set up Auto-Correction

The “word auto-replacement” function is very useful, because during speed dial There are typos in words in the text. This function will help you correct an incorrectly written phrase automatically; to do this, you need to make the following settings:

1) By clicking on the “File” section, select “Options”;

2) In the pop-up window on the left side, find “Spelling”, in the “AutoCorrect Options” section, click on the “AutoCorrect Options...” button;

3) In the “AutoCorrect” section, check the box next to “Replace as you type”;

4) Add a phrase that is often printed incorrectly. For example: “assistant” enter under the “replace” field as an incorrect option, and under the “to” field indicate the correct word form and click on “Add”. As shown in the picture below.

You can add any phrase and indicate its correct spelling. It can also be an abbreviation of everyday phrases, an abbreviation, or the name of a hotkey in English. Here are examples:

How to change a phrase in the AutoCorrect list

You need to scroll through the entire list and find the phrase you need, highlight it so that it appears in the “replace” field and in the “to” field.

Now all that remains is to place the mouse cursor in the desired field and enter your own spelling of a symbol or phrase, replace and save. Let's look at an example. To quickly write a character(s) in the form of “@”, you first need to add and indicate which character will be replaced.

The actions are standard, as before when adding a new phrase. “File” - “Options” - “Spelling” - “AutoCorrect Options”. In the section where “AutoCorrect”, under the “replace” field, enter “(a)”, and in the “to” field, write “@”. Add and click “OK”.

Now is the time to check. We print the desired fragment of the article and write “(a)” (in the picture below), replacing it with “@” occurs after pressing the “)” final character.

Working with Word will become much easier if you make all the settings for autocorrecting different phrases. Just imagine that you can type (Moscow State University) in one second by just writing three letters “mgu”. Thanks to certain options, the user will be able to automatically check for correct punctuation, very quickly, considering that viewing a document of 10 A4 sheets manually will take a long time. In this case, we are talking about using the “Spelling” option in the “Review” section.

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 not possible, 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, check the required fields 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), right-click and select “Add to dictionary” in the context menu. 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. Find Microsoft Office in the list of applications, 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.