Why does Spellcheck keep turning itself off in Microsoft 365 Word — Great Circle Learning - VILT & ILT Facilitator Guide Templates and Software (2024)

1. Now open the Review tab

2. Click the Language button.

3. On a PC, select Set Proofing Language

• If in the Language dialog that opens the checkbox for “Do not check spelling…” is marked with a dash,then somewhere in the document something is marked to not spellcheck.

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• Is that what you expected?Do you have something in the document that you do not want spell or grammar checked?

If you don’t, in other words, you want everything checked for errors you must do the following…

1. With everything in the document selected, mark the “Do not check…” box so that a checkmark appears and then click OK.

2. Now repeat the process by removing the checkmark and clicking OK.

3. You have to perform this twice in order to clear empty paragraph marks of the attribute setting for not checking spelling or grammar.

Why?

Empty paragraph marks in a document do not reveal their style settings until text is entered into them.

When you select all and then check if the spell-checking box is appropriately marked, you may get a false indicator… it says everything should be fine, but it actually might not be.

So, how does this happen? How do empty paragraphs get style attribute settings on them that you didn’t expect?

When you copy and paste items from other documents, the style settings on that copied text are brought over to your current document.

The empty paragraph mark, where you inserted the text, gets affected. You hit Return and the next paragraph is affected, and so on.

To eliminate the problem this causes …

You must use Word’s Clear Formatting function on the text you are about to copybeforeyou copy it. Then you can paste it into another document without carrying over settings you don't want.

If it's too late for that, then clear the formatting on the pasted in text in your troubled document,including any surrounding empty paragraphs.

Concerning errant Spelling and Grammar Checking settings on empty paragraph marks in your document, you must either:

• Clear Formatting on each paragraph mark individually

• Or select everything in the document and then cycle On and Off the “Do not check spelling or grammar” control on the Language dialog:

  • With everything in the document selected, mark the “Do not check…” box so that a check mark appears and then click OK

• Now repeat the process by removing the check mark and clicking OK.