Select the Microsoft Office app and click Modify.įrom the pop-up window, select Quick Repair.
Also, you can use the Windows key + I keyboard shortcut. Right-click the Start button and select Settings. Repairing the app installed on your device might be enough to fix your issue. Related: Get Microsoft Word for Free: Here’s How Upload the same Word document and check if the web app’s spell checker works.
If you are in a rush and want to quickly spell check your document, you can use Microsoft Office online as long as you have subscribed to a Microsoft 365 plan. There are several ways to fix Word’s spell checker, and we will go through each of them below. However, sometimes the integration does not work as expected. Not the same thing as you, I know, but I thought it could be related or help anyone else who lands here in their search for spell check problems.Microsoft Word features built-in spell-checking, so you don’t have to worry about pressing the wrong key or checking the spelling of any word you write. path to other dictioanry file is: C:\Users\\appdata\roaming\chrome\data\ (look for the *.bdic file) Copied the chrome one into the teams folder and renamed it to the Teams name and voila! My misspelled words now have correct suggestions and my correctly spelled words are showing as correctly spelled. After I have completed some part of my text (in general a sentence) the. When I start typing in a different language, say Dutch, the spellings checkers corrects Dutch text I have entered to a 'correct' English word. The default language for my Office suite is English (UK). Since deleting the old one does not harm Teams because it can just regenerate a new one, I figured what harm could it do to use my chrome one. Word 365 spellings check in relation to auto language detection. But when I tried to find more about *.bdic files in general I discovered that it is the format created by google for the chrome browser.
All research said no way to update what comes with Teams. I went to C:\Users\\appdata\roaming\Microsoft\teams\dictionaries as you mentioned and hoped there was a way to get a better dictionary file. But reading your post helped point me in the right direction, and maybe it could resolve your issue as well. Use Editor in Word, Outlook, Gmail, LinkedIn, and Google docs, among many other places. Hope it issues were correct words being marked as misspelled and few correct suggestions for other misspelled words. Across social media, email, and documents, Microsoft Editor helps you check your spelling and grammar and polish your writing style. If you are writing in English and your Word app language is set to French or Spanish, then spell check might not work.
How to Fix Spell Check Not Working in Word with Language Settings. Note2: In your case, the spellCheckerService may be trying to initialize using a different language. I will be using Microsoft Word 2016 in this tutorial, but everything applies to Word 2010, 2013, 2019, and some other versions. Yet, Teams tried to set the Spell Check service to Spanish Latin America for some reason. Note: English-US is the default language in my computer. # Restarted the computer (just to be on the safe side) # I removed Spanish - Latin America configuration from the preferred languages in Windows (I am using Windows 10): Windows Settings -> Time & Language -> Language -> Preferred Languages Which means es-49 (Spanish - Latin America) is not supported by the spellCheckerService. # I found the following error "error - spellCheckerService initialization failed: Message: es-419 is not a valid language code" # I opened the log.txt file located in "C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Teams" folder. I deleted the content of the C:\Users\appdata\roaming\Microsoft\teams\dictionaries folder, restarted Teams, but the issue persisted. I am hoping someone has solved this and can help me. I have verified that it is recreated when teams starts back up and that it has the correct size. I have followed the suggestions of exiting the client, deleting the language file found in the C:\Users\\appdata\roaming\Microsoft\teams\dictionaries location. However on some other posts I have seen people state that it was working for them on the desktop client. I really hope that isn't the case, if it is, it is a huge oversight. In one of the posts that I read I heard that someone said it wasn't supported on the desktop version. When I say that it isn't working, I mean that it doesn't underline misspelled words as you can see in the screen shot. I am hoping someone has resolved this issue. I have read through many items on the community and internet posts and haven't found anything of help. I have an office365 account and I am running the desktop version of Microsoft Teams on Windows 10.