Word highlight misspelled words

Microsoft Editor runs in Word for Microsoft 365 to analyze your document and offer suggestions for spelling, grammar, and stylistic issues, like making sentences more concise, choosing simpler words, or writing with more formality.

To use Editor, on the Home tab choose Editor.

Choose Editor on the Home tab or press F7 to open the Editor pane.

Reviewing suggestions

To focus on the issues you care most about, choose a correction or refinement type, like Grammar or Clarity. Then, use the arrows near the top of the pane to step through each of that type of issue.

Move directly from one issue to the next at the top of the Editor pane.

Choose a suggestion to incorporate it into your document. If you don’t like the suggestion, choose Ignore Once. Or, if you never want this type of suggestion, choose Don’t check for this issue.

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Choose a suggestion to incorporate it into your document.

Note: If you change your mind about an issue you ignored, close and reopen the document, and go back to Editor. Editor will find the issue again.

Tailor what Editor checks for 

By default, Editor checks for several categories of issues, and the suggestions may or may not suit your writing style. To finely tune Editor for suggestions you want, do the following:

  1. In the Editor pane, choose Settings.
    In the Editor pane, choose Settings.

  2. In the Word Options dialog box, next to Grammar & Refinements, choose Settings.
    In the Word Options dialog box, next to Grammar & Refinements, choose Settings

  3. Scroll through the list of options. Select issues you want Editor to check, and clear the issues you want Editor to ignore.

    Note: Choosing Reset All returns to the default settings.

  4. Choose OK.

Tip: Editor is designed to empower you to bring out the best in your writing. We are continually making updates to its suggestions and experimenting to learn which suggestions are most welcome. If you have feedback for us, choose Help Improve Office? at the top of the Word window to open the Feedback pane.
Choose the Help Improve Office? icon at the top of the Word window to open the Feedback pane.

You might notice Editor’s red, blue, and purple underlines in your document even when the Editor pane is closed. That’s because Editor is always running in the background, checking for spelling, grammar, and some style issues.

Right-click the underlined text to see the suggestion. Use context menu to:

  • Listen to the suggestion by clicking the arrow next to the suggestion and then choosing Read Aloud.

  • Skip this instance of the issue by choosing Ignore Once.

  • Tell Editor to stop checking for this issue by choosing Don’t check for this issue.

  • Fine tune the settings for this type of issue by choosing the Options link.

  • Get more information about the issue by choosing See More.

The Editor context menu gives you several options for the current suggestion.

Your document might be written in more than one language, or you might want to switch to another language for Editor to check. If you are set up to use multiple authoring languages (File > Options > Language), Word detects the language you’re writing in, and Editor will check for issues in that language.

However, you might be writing in a language that Word doesn’t detect automatically. In that case, you can get Editor to check text in that language by selecting the text and going to Review > Language > Set Proofing Language, and then choose your language.

Choose Set Proofing Language from the Language menu on the Review tab.

When Editor is checking more than one language, the Editor pane lists corrections and refinements for each language in the document. 

Corrections and refinements are listed per language in the Editor pane.

For information about the issues that Editor checks in various languages, see Editor’s spelling, grammar, and refinement availability by language.

When you work on documents in Word on the web, Editor provides a rich set of features that are coming soon to Word for Windows. Even when you’re not using Word, the Editor browser extension helps you with writing on websites like LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Gmail.

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Word marks spelling, grammar, and stylistic issues with an underline. Right-click the underlined word, and then choose the suggestion you want, or learn more about the error and how to correct it.

Or, open the Editor pane to address issues by category.

  1. On the Review tab, select Check Document.

    Showing Check Document under Review tab

  2. The Editor pane categorizes spelling, grammar, and stylistic issues.

    Showing Overview of proofing issues

  3. Click each category to address the issues.

    Note: For keyboard shortcuts in the Editor pane, there’s no need to press Alt. Just use the underlined letter to select the command (like i for Ignore Once, g for Ignore All, etc) .

  1. In the Editor pane, click Settings.

  2. Under When correcting spelling and grammar in Word, select Settings

  3. For Writing Style, select Grammar & Refinements .

  4. Scroll down to see all of the options available, and select or clear the rules you want. The settings apply to all the documents that you edit, not just the current one.

Requirements and availability of the Editor pane include the following:

  • Internet connection: Make sure your connection is working.

  • Intelligent Services switched on: Go to File > Options > General and turn on Office Intelligence Services.

  • Language availability: For information about the issues that Word checks for in various languages, see Editor’s spelling, grammar, and refinement availability by language.

Word marks spelling, grammar, and stylistic issues with an underline. Control-click the word or phrase and choose one of the options.

If Word incorrectly underlined a word as misspelled and you want to add that word to your dictionary so that Word will properly recognize it in the future, see Add or edit words in a spell check dictionary. 

If spelling or grammatical errors aren’t underlined, you might need to turn on automatic spelling and grammar checking, as follows. 

Turn on (or off) automatic spelling and grammar checking

  1. On the Word menu, click Preferences > Spelling & Grammar.

  2. In the Spelling & Grammar dialog box, under Spelling, check or clear the Check spelling as you type box.

  3. Under Grammar, check or clear the Check grammar as you type box.

  4. Close the dialog box to save your changes.

  1. On the Review tab, click Spelling & Grammar.

  2. Word displays the issues it finds in the Spelling & Grammar dialog box.

  3. To address an issue, do one of the following:

    • Type the correction in the box and then click Change.

    • Under Suggestions, click the word you want to use, and then click Change.

    To skip the error, do one of the following:

    • Click Ignore Once to skip only that instance of the error.

    • Click Ignore All to skip all instances of the error.

    • For a grammatical error, click Next Sentence to skip that instance of the error and move to the next error.

    To skip a misspelled word in all documents, click Add to add it to the dictionary. This only works for spelling. You can’t add custom grammar to the dictionary.

  4. After you correct, ignore, or skip an issue, Word moves to the next one. When Word finishes reviewing the document, you’ll see a message that the spelling and grammar check is complete.

  5. Click OK to return to your document.

You can clear or reset the list of Ignored Words and Grammar so Word will check for spelling and grammar issues you previously told it to ignore.

Note: When you reset the list of Ignored Words and Grammar, the list is cleared only for the currently open document. Any spelling or grammar issues you told Word to ignore in other documents won’t be affected.

  1. Open the document that needs to be checked.

  2. On the Tools menu, point to Spelling and Grammar, and then click Reset Ignored Words and Grammar.

    To clear the lists of words and grammar that Word ignores, click Reset Ignored Words and Grammar.

    Word displays a warning about the operation resetting the spelling checker and the grammar checker.

    Cause Word to check for spelling and grammar that you told Word to ignore earlier by clicking Yes.

  3. Click Yes to proceed.

  4. Click the Review tab, and then click Spelling & Grammar to check spelling and grammar.

Word marks potential spelling errors with a red squiggly line, and potential grammatical errors are marked with a blue squiggly line.

Right-click on the underlined word or phrase and choose a correction, or ignore the suggestion.

Note: If Word is flagging words as misspelled but you have it spelled the way you want it, select Add to Dictionary to teach Word not to flag that word as misspelled in the future. For more information on this see: Add or edit words in a spell check dictionary.

If you don’t want Office to mark potential errors with squiggly lines while you are working, you can turn automatic spelling and grammar checking off:

  1. On the File menu, click Options, and then click Proofing.

  2. Select or clear the Check spelling as you type and Mark grammar errors as you type check boxes.

    The Check Spelling As You Type check box

    Note: You can turn the spelling checker on or off for the document you’re working with or for all new documents. Select an option in the Exceptions for list, and then select or clear the Hide spelling errors in this document only and Hide grammar errors in this document only check boxes.

If you don’t want Word to check grammar at all (either when running a spell check or automatically as you type), you can turn it off:

  1. On the File menu, click Options, and then click Proofing.

  2. Clear the Mark grammar errors as you type and Check grammar with spelling check boxes.

    Grammar check boxes

  1. On the File menu, click Options > Proofing> Recheck Document.

  2. Click Yes when you see the warning message about resetting the spelling and grammar checker.

  3. Click OK in the dialog box to get back to the document, and then run the spelling and grammar checker again.

See also

For more information about Microsoft Editor, see Microsoft Editor checks grammar and more in documents, mail, and the web.

For more topics on spelling and grammar, see Spelling and grammar in Word.

To try Microsoft Editor for yourself, download the Editor in Word Tutorial.

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In Windows 11/10, misspelled words get autocorrected and highlighted automatically. However, if you want to turn off Spell Checker & Auto-Correct functionalities, you can do it via Settings as well as using REGEDIT and GPEDIT. Today we show you how to do it using the Windows 11 Settings or the Local Group Policy Editor and the Registry Editor in Windows 11/10.

How to enable or disable Autocorrect and Highlight misspelled words

Autocorrect and Highlight misspelled words features are helpful when you need to complete a big writing project quickly and don’t want to spend time proofreading every word. Your Windows 10 computer highlights the misspelled words and changes them automatically so that you don’t have to spend your time on them.

How to enable or disable Autocorrect and Highlight Misspelled Words settings in Windows 11

Windows 11 is a considerable improvement as far as usability is concerned. A lot of options in the Settings menu have changed their positions. A lot of options which were previously not a part of the Settings menu have been added as well. One such case is with the option to enable or disable Autocorrect and Highlight Misspelled Words settings in Windows 11. If you wish to know the procedure for the same, it is as follows:

  1. Right-click on the Start button and select Settings.
  2. In the Settings menu, go to the Time & language tab on the list on the left-hand side.
  3. In the right-pane, click on Typing.
  4. Here you would find 2 options namely Autocorrect mispelled words and Highlight misspelled words. Both have switches to enable or disable them.

Disable Autocorrect and Highlight misspelled words in Windows 11/10 via GPEDIT

To disable Autocorrect and Highlight misspelled words using Group Policy, follow these steps:

  1. Press Win+R to open the Run dialog.
  2. Type gpedit.msc and press Enter.
  3. Go to Regional and Language Options in User Configuration.
  4. Double-click on the Turn off autocorrect misspelled words and Turn off highlight misspelled words settings.
  5. Choose the Enabled option.
  6. Click the OK button.

Let’s delve into these aforementioned in detail.

At first, you have to open the Local Group Policy Editor. For that, press Win+R, type gpedit.msc, and press the Enter button.

Once it is opened, navigate to the following path:

User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Control Panel > Regional and Language Options

Here you can find two settings named Turn off autocorrect misspelled words and Turn off highlight misspelled words. Double-click on each of them and select the Enabled option.

How to enable or disable Autocorrect and Highlight misspelled words

Click the OK button to save the change.

Suppose you want to re-enable Highlight misspelled words and Autocorrect misspelled words features. In that case, you need to open the same settings in the Local Group Policy Editor, choose the Not Configured option, and click the OK button.

Turn off Autocorrect and Highlight misspelled words using Registry in Windows 11/10

To turn Autocorrect and Highlight misspelled words using Registry, follow these steps:

  1. Press Win+R to open the Run prompt.
  2. Type regedit and press the Enter button.
  3. Click on the Yes option.
  4. Navigate to Microsoft in HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
  5. Right-click on Microsoft > New > Key.
  6. Name it as Control Panel.
  7. Right-click on Control Panel > New > Key.
  8. Name it as International.
  9. Right-click on International > New > DWORD (32-bit) Value.
  10. Name it as TurnOffAutocorrectMisspelledWords and TurnOffHighlightMisspelledWords.
  11. Double-click on each of them and enter 1 as the Value data.
  12. Click the OK button.

Keep reading to learn more about these steps.

At first, press Win+R, type regedit, press the Enter button, and choose the Yes option to open Registry Editor on your computer. After that, navigate to this path:

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoft

Right-click on the Microsoft key, select New > Key and name it as Control Panel. Next, right-click on the Control Panel key, select New > Key, and name it International.

How to enable or disable Autocorrect and Highlight misspelled words

Then, you have to create a REG_DOWRD value in the International key.

For that, right-click on it, select New > DWORD (32-bit) Value, and name it as TurnOffAutocorrectMisspelledWords.

How to enable or disable Autocorrect and Highlight misspelled words

Follow the same steps to create another REG_DWORD value named TurnOffHighlightMisspelledWords.

Now, double-click on each of them to set the Value data as 1.

How to enable or disable Autocorrect and Highlight misspelled words

Click on the OK button to save the change.

If you want to turn them on again, open the same REG_DWORD values, enter the Value data as 0, and click the OK button to save the change.

Hope it helped you.

What is the difference between Autocorrect misspelled words and Highlight misspelled words?

The difference is that the autocorrect option will correct the misspelled word automatically as soon as you hit the Spacebar or Enter. In case of highlight, it would simply highlight the error and you could fix it later. The latter prevents chances of false corrections.

Why has the autocorrect option been introduced so late with Windows when it already existed with phone?

You remember when autocorrect would mess up a word with a false correction with your phone, but it was ok. The applications phones were intended for didn’t need the same accuracy as that with a full-fledged computer. But as the system grew smarter, Microsoft introduced the feature with Windows.

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This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, Word in Microsoft 365, and 2021. If you are using an earlier version (Word 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Word, click here: Hiding Spelling Errors.

Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated March 25, 2023)
This tip applies to Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, Word in Microsoft 365, and 2021

Word includes a feature that checks up on the spelling and grammar in your document as you type. You’ve seen the results—the red and green squiggly underlines that mark spelling and grammar errors.

For some people, the red underlines that denote spelling problems can be distracting, since their appearance can break your concentration as you are composing your document. Perhaps you would rather check spelling as a discrete phase of document development at a later time. If you find the red squiggly underlines distracting, you can turn them off. Simply follow these steps:

  1. Display the Word Options dialog box. (In Word 2007 click the Office button and then click Word Options. In Word 2010 and later versions display the File tab of the ribbon and then click Options.)
  2. At the left side of the dialog box, click Proofing. (See Figure 1.)

    3. Figure 1. The proofing options of the Word Options dialog box.

  3. At the bottom of the dialog box, make sure the Hide Spelling Errors in This Document Only check box is selected.
  4. Click on OK.

Any existing red squiggly underlines should disappear. In order to check your spelling you will now explicitly need to start the spell checker.

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This tip (6104) applies to Microsoft Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, Word in Microsoft 365, and 2021. You can find a version of this tip for the older menu interface of Word here: Hiding Spelling Errors.

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This wikiHow teaches you how to turn on the spell checker feature on your computer, and highlight misspelled words as you type.

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    Open your Windows Settings. You can open Settings from the Start menu, or press the ⊞ Win+I keys on your keyboard.

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    Click Devices in Settings.

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    Click Typing on the left panel. This will open your keyboard settings on the right-hand side.

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    Slide the Highlight misspelled words switch to the On position. When this option is enabled, Windows will check your spelling as you type, and highlight your spelling errors.

    • The switch will turn blue when it’s on.
    • Optionally, you can also turn on Autocorrect Misspelled Words here. This way, Windows will automatically correct your spelling mistakes as you type.

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    Open Microsoft Word on your computer. The Word app looks like a blue-and-white document icon. You can find it on your Start menu.

    • You can open a recent document, or a new, blank sheet.

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    Click the File tab. This button is in the upper-left corner of Word. It will open your file menu.

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    Select Options from the file menu. You can find it at the bottom of the left sidebar. It will open a new window.

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    Click the Proofing tab in Options. You can find it near the top of the left sidebar in the Options window.

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    Check the Check spelling as you type option. You can find it in the «When correcting spelling and grammar in Word» section in Proofing.

    • When this option is enabled, Word will underline misspelled words as you type.
    • Optionally, you can also check some of the other boxes in this section, and enable other correction tools for grammar errors.

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    Open your Mac’s System Preferences. Find and click the gray gear icon in your Applications folder, or click the Apple icon on the top-left and select System Preferences on the menu.

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    Click Keyboard in System Preferences. This option looks like a tiny keyboard icon on the second row of options. It will open your keyboard and typing settings.

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    Click the Text tab. It’s located between Keyboard and Shortcuts at the top.

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    Check the Correct spelling automatically box. You can find this option in the upper-right corner of the Text menu. When it’s enabled, your Mac will check your spelling as you type, and automatically correct misspelled words.

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    Open Microsoft Word on your computer. The Word app looks like a blue-and-white document icon. You can find it in your Applications folder.

    • You can open a saved document, or a new, blank sheet.

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    Click the Word tab on your menu bar. This button is in the upper-left corner of your screen. It will open a drop-down menu.

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    Click Preferences on the Word menu. This will open your app settings in a new window.

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    Click Spelling & Grammar in Preferences. It’s under «Authoring and Proofing Tools» on the top row.

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    Check the Always suggest corrections box. It’s the first option under «Spelling.» When it’s enabled, you can right-click on a misspelled word, and see a list of suggestions.

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    Check the Check Spelling as you type box. When this option is enabled, Word will automatically underline misspelled words in your document as you type.

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    Select any additional spelling and grammar options you want to enable. Click and check the box next to any of the options under the «Spelling» and «Grammar» sections.

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    Close the Spelling & Grammar window. Click the red button in the top-left corner to close your Settings.

    • Changes to your settings are saved automatically.

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    Open an app that lets you type on your Mac. You can open a word processor like TextEdit or Notes, a messaging app like Messages or Mail, an internet browser, or any other app that lets you type text.

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    Click the Edit tab on the menu bar. You can find this button in the upper-left corner of your screen. It will open a drop-down menu.

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    Hover the mouse over Spelling and Grammar. It should be near the bottom of the Edit menu.

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    Click Check Spelling While Typing on the menu. When this option is enabled, your Mac automatically checks your spelling as you type in this app, and highlights misspelled words.

    • When it’s enabled, you’ll see a checkmark next to this option on the menu.
    • In some apps, you can also enable Check Spelling While Typing and Correct Spelling Automatically here.

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As soon as you type in Microsoft Word, misspelled words are highlighted with red line beneath them. This helps us to check incorrectly type words in a large documents and we easily rectify them by doing a right click and selecting correct spelling for the word(s).

However, sometimes, users may found that spell checker is no longer working in Word application. Under such a condition, it becomes quite difficult to highlight misspelled words and thus grammatical error(s) remain in the documents, which may slash your impression.

FIX Spell Checker Not Working In Word 2016

So if you’re facing the problem of spell checker not working, in this article we’ll help you to fix that. Here’s what to do to solve this issue.

FIX: Spell Checker Not Working In Word 2016/13/10/07

FIX 1 – Check Proofing Settings

1. Open Word, click on FILE > Options.

FIX Spell Checker Not Working In Word 2016

2. In the Word Options, switch to Proofing. Under ‘When correcting spelling and grammar in Word‘ heading, make sure following options are checked:

  • Check spelling as you type
  • Check grammar with spelling

For Exceptions for the document(s), uncheck all the options. Click OK. Return to the document you’ve working on.

FIX Spell Checker Not Working In Word 2016

This should immediately start spell checker. But if that doesn’t happens, go ahead and try FIX 2.

FIX 2 – Using Registry

Registry Disclaimer: The further steps will involve registry manipulation. Making mistakes while manipulating registry could affect your system adversely. So be careful while editing registry entries and create a System Restore point first.

1. Press W8K + R and put regedit in Run dialog box to open Registry Editor (if you’re not familiar with Registry Editor, then click here). Click OK.

Windows 10 Registry Editor

2. In left pane of Registry Editor window, navigate to following registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftShared ToolsProofing Tools1.0Override

FIX Spell Checker Not Working In Word 2016

3. Right click on the Override registry key and select Delete. Click Yes on the confirmation prompt shown below.

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Close Registry Editor. Reboot the machine, spell checker should work after restart.

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Windows 10: How to enable or disable Autocorrect and Highlight Misspelled Words settings in Windows 10

Discus and support How to enable or disable Autocorrect and Highlight Misspelled Words settings in Windows 10 in Windows 10 News to solve the problem; In Windows 10, misspelled words get autocorrected and highlighted automatically. However, if you want to turn off Spell Checker & Auto-Correct…
Discussion in ‘Windows 10 News’ started by WinClub, Jun 2, 2021.

  1. How to enable or disable Autocorrect and Highlight Misspelled Words settings in Windows 10

    In Windows 10, misspelled words get autocorrected and highlighted automatically. However, if you want to turn off Spell Checker & Auto-Correct functionalities, you can do it via Settings as well as using REGEDIT and GPEDIT. Today we show you how to do it using the Local Group Policy Editor and the Registry Editor.

    How to enable or disable Autocorrect and Highlight Misspelled Words settings in Windows 10 disable-autocorrect-highlight-misspelled-words-4.png

    Autocorrect and Highlight misspelled words features are helpful when you need to complete a big writing project quickly and don’t want to spend time proofreading every word. Your Windows 10 computer highlights the misspelled words and changes them automatically so that you don’t have to spend your time on them.

    Disable Autocorrect and Highlight misspelled words in Windows10

    To disable Autocorrect and Highlight misspelled words using Group Policy, follow these steps:

    1. Press Win+R to open the Run dialog.
    2. Type gpedit.msc and press Enter.
    3. Go to Regional and Language Options in User Configuration.
    4. Double-click on the Turn off autocorrect misspelled words and Turn off highlight misspelled words settings.
    5. Choose the Enabled option.
    6. Click the OK button.

    Let’s delve into these aforementioned in detail.

    At first, you have to open the Local Group Policy Editor. For that, press Win+R, type gpedit.msc, and press the Enter button.

    Once it is opened, navigate to the following path:

    User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Control Panel > Regional and Language Options

    Here you can find two settings named Turn off autocorrect misspelled words and Turn off highlight misspelled words. Double-click on each of them and select the Enabled option.

    How to enable or disable Autocorrect and Highlight Misspelled Words settings in Windows 10 disable-autocorrect-highlight-misspelled-words.png

    Click the OK button to save the change.

    Suppose you want to re-enable Highlight misspelled words and Autocorrect misspelled words features. In that case, you need to open the same settings in the Local Group Policy Editor, choose the Not Configured option, and click the OK button.

    Turn off Autocorrect and Highlight misspelled words using Registry

    To turn Autocorrect and Highlight misspelled words using Registry, follow these steps:

    1. Press Win+R to open the Run prompt.
    2. Type regedit and press the Enter button.
    3. Click on the Yes option.
    4. Navigate to Microsoft in HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
    5. Right-click on Microsoft > New > Key.
    6. Name it as Control Panel.
    7. Right-click on Control Panel > New > Key.
    8. Name it as International.
    9. Right-click on International > New > DWORD (32-bit) Value.
    10. Name it as TurnOffAutocorrectMisspelledWords and TurnOffHighlightMisspelledWords.
    11. Double-click on each of them and enter 1 as the Value data.
    12. Click the OK button.

    Keep reading to learn more about these steps.

    At first, press Win+R, type regedit, press the Enter button, and choose the Yes option to open Registry Editor on your computer. After that, navigate to this path:

    HKEY_CURRENT_USERSOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoft

    Right-click on the Microsoft key, select New > Key and name it as Control Panel. Next, right-click on the Control Panel key, select New > Key, and name it International.

    How to enable or disable Autocorrect and Highlight Misspelled Words settings in Windows 10 disable-autocorrect-highlight-misspelled-words-1.png

    Then, you have to create a REG_DOWRD value in the International key.

    For that, right-click on it, select New > DWORD (32-bit) Value, and name it as TurnOffAutocorrectMisspelledWords.

    How to enable or disable Autocorrect and Highlight Misspelled Words settings in Windows 10 disable-autocorrect-highlight-misspelled-words-2.png

    Follow the same steps to create another REG_DWORD value named TurnOffHighlightMisspelledWords.

    Now, double-click on each of them to set the Value data as 1.

    How to enable or disable Autocorrect and Highlight Misspelled Words settings in Windows 10 disable-autocorrect-highlight-misspelled-words-3.png

    Click on the OK button to save the change.

    If you want to turn them on again, open the same REG_DWORD values, enter the Value data as 0, and click the OK button to save the change.

    Hope it helped you.

    How to enable or disable Autocorrect and Highlight Misspelled Words settings in Windows 10 disable-autocorrect-highlight-misspelled-words-4.png

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  2. ‘Autocorrect/Highlight misspelled words’ NOT working in Windows 10 Pro

    Hello

    I am using Windows 10 Pro on my laptop (Lenovo ThinkPad T450) and facing issue with ‘Autocorrect/Highlight misspelled words’ option. Windows is not autocorrecting or highlighting the misspelled words in any of the application. I have checked the following
    Windows settings and both these options are enabled there.

    Settings -> Devices -> Typing -> Spelling -> Autocorrect misspelled words

    Settings -> Devices -> Typing -> Spelling -> Highlight misspelled words

    I have tried turning off/on these settings but it didn’t help.

    Is anybody out there also facing this issue. What could be the resolution steps to fix this?

    Please help.

    Thanks in advance.

  3. Autocorrect misspelled words not working / can I use SwiftKey?

    I would like to have misspelled words in Dutch autocorrected while typing in the webbrowser chrome on windows. On my android phone, my keyboard (GBoard) does this fantastically. SwiftKey by Microsoft seems to do the same on android.

    In windows 10 PC Settings — Devices — Typing, I have ‘autocorrect misspelled words’ activated. For hardware keyboard, I have ‘autocorrect misspelled words as I type’ activated.

    How to enable or disable Autocorrect and Highlight Misspelled Words settings in Windows 10 [​IMG]

    How to enable or disable Autocorrect and Highlight Misspelled Words settings in Windows 10 [​IMG]

    Autocorrection does not work. I see suggested words (see attachment), and when I misspell a word, the correct suggestion usually comes up first. But I have to click the word to have it corrected.

    How to enable or disable Autocorrect and Highlight Misspelled Words settings in Windows 10 [​IMG]

    My questions: Am I doing something wrong and does this work for others? If it does not work for others, is there something I can do to get the android kind of typing on windows 10?

    My windows version number is 19041.685

  4. How to enable or disable Autocorrect and Highlight Misspelled Words settings in Windows 10

    Autocorrect in Win10… basically non-existent(?)

    In this case, we suggest following the steps below to work around the issue:

    • On the Cortana search box, type Typing Settings and press
      Enter.
    • Turn off Autocorrect misspelled words and Highlight misspelled words.
    • Restart your PC.
    • Do step 1 and 2 but this time turn on Autocorrect misspelled words
      and Highlight misspelled words.
    • Restart your PC.
    • Check if the issue still exist.

    If you have questions, please let us know.

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