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Updated for Word 2008 (DRAFT in Progress)

Nov 26, 2019 Spell Check Keyboard Shortcut for Microsoft Word. Just hit Alt + F7 on your keyboard and it will start with the first misspelled word. If the first highlighted word at the top of the list is correct, just hit Enter. Or you can arrow to the correct one, ignore it, or Add to Dictionary. Hit Alt + F7 again and it will go to the next misspelled word.

Spelling FAQ

Change Language in a Single Click in Word 2008 (external link, scroll down for English)

Known Bugs

Word Spell Check Shortcut Mac

Note: the Word 2004 Help topic 'Troubleshoot spelling and grammar checking' also addresses some questions not covered here.

If you don't find a keyboard shortcut here that meets your needs, you can create a custom keyboard shortcut. For instructions, go to Create a custom keyboard shortcut for Office for Mac. Many of the shortcuts that use the Ctrl key on a Windows keyboard also work with the Control key in Word for Mac. However, not all do. Apr 12, 2018 Perform a search to find more online articles about spell check problems in Word for Mac; Help from the Microsoft Answers online community: Visit the Answers community and search or post your Word for Mac spell check problems; Contact Microsoft support: Find the phone number to contact Microsoft Support. Turn grammar checking off entirely. Open the spelling and grammar options: In OneNote, PowerPoint, Publisher, Visio, and Word: On the File menu, click Options, and then click Proofing. In InfoPath: On the Home tab, click the arrow next to or under Spelling, and then click Spelling Options.

Spelling Fixes

Spelling depends on the language setting, so first make sure you have a Tools>Language menu entry. If not, see here.

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Fixing All Documents, or Changing the Default Language

You need to modify the style that the text is formatted in, to include the language formatting. Then anytime you use that style in the future, it will automatically have the language tags. New documents will behave, although you will need to fix old documents one-by-one.

Change the Normal Style

Go to Tools>Language, select a Language, and click Default. Microsoft word 2016 mac free trial.

Word will automatically add that language tag to your Normal style, which is the default style for text in a new blank document. Be sure the 'do not check spelling or grammar' box is NOT checked. Word will ask you to confirm that you want to change the setting for new documents—answer yes. If on quitting Word, you get a 'save changes to Normal' question, answer yes.

If More Action is Necessary

Click in a word that is not being spell-checked, and go to Format>Style. The style of that word will already be selected in the left column of the dialog.
Click Modify. Check the “add to template” box to save your changes to all new documents based on that template, but do NOT check the “automatically update” box.
Use the Format drop-down menu at the bottom of the Modify dialog to select Language—select the Language you want, and make sure the 'do not check spelling or grammar' box is NOT checked.
Click OK to exit the Language dialog, then OK to exit the Modify Style dialog, and either Close or Apply to exit the Format>Style dialog.

Fixing Single Documents or Documents Created Earlier

First Check the Language Formatting

Select all the text, go to Tools>Language, select the desired language, uncheck the “do not check spelling or grammar” box if necessary, and hit OK. Be sure to Select All the text first! Now it should work.

If the “do not check spelling or grammar” box has a dash in it, this means part of your text is tagged “do not check.” Click twice to clear completely.

If your document uses more than one language, when you Select All and go to Tools>Language, you will see that no language is highlighted. Let it stay that way. Just click the 'do not check spelling and grammar' box until it is completely clear, and that will remove the 'do not check spelling and grammar' formatting regardless of which languages are applied to the text, and will not change your language formatting.

If Necessary, Check the Preferences

In Word> Preferences> Spelling & Grammar, make sure the box labeled 'Hide spelling errors in this document' is UNchecked (and ditto for the similar box for grammar).

You might also click the Check Document button while there, then recheck the spelling. It's possible that during a previous spell check the Ignore/Ignore All option was used.

Fix Old Documents

You can use either the direct formatting method of Select All, go to Tools>Language, and apply a language and clear the 'do not check' box; or the style-based method of redefining the style in each old document.

None of Those Fixes Worked? Check Your System Setup

If you continue to have problems, you may need to check the system settings. Go to System Preferences>International>Input Menu and ensure the languages and keyboard you want to use are installed and enabled (UK is under British, by the way).

Look on your Menu Bar for the flag for the language you want to use (e.g. if you are using 'English Australian', there should be an Australian flag there.) If either of these is wrong, Word may be asking for dictionaries that may not exist. This should not be necessary to switch languages on a regular basis, but may be a one-time only aid.

A few individuals run into problems when they want the default language for Office documents to be different from the default language settings in the OS. A contributor to Mac OS X Hints has posted his workaround here, after finding difficulties getting Word to default to UK English while he was using an Irish keyboard layout in the OS.

Word 2008 has a preference to 'match font with keyboard' (Word>Preferences>Edit). Unchecking this has helped in related cases.

Still Broken?

It's rare that this is the problem for English speakers, but make sure the proofing tools are actually installed. Look here:

Word 2008: Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Office/Shared Applications/Proofing Tools
Word 2004: Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Shared Applications/Proofing Tools/

If you don't see the language you need, run a custom installation from your Office CD to install the right proofing tools.

Set the Default Language

Go to Tools>Language, select your language, and click Default. This will affect all documents created from then on. You'll need to fix old documents one-by one. (If you don't have a Tools>Language entry, see here.)

You are highly advised to read How Spell-Checking Works in Word, as the notion of a 'default language' doesn't exactly apply to Word.

Spell-Check Doesn’t Catch Misspelled Words

For Word to spell-check, whether by using the Tools>Spelling & Grammar dialog, or by showing red underlines for the “check spelling as you type” function, you need to tell it which language you are using.

As a test, click in a word that isn’t being spell-checked. Go to Tools>Language and see what language the “Mark Selected Text As” blue selection bar is highlighting, and if the 'do not check spelling or grammar' box is checked. Note: Older versions of Word (Word 98, Word 2001, Word X) do not have a “do not check spelling and grammar” box. Instead the language list contains a “(no proofing)” option at the very top, which behaves similarly.

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