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Spell check not working on Microsoft Teams desktop
Dear jharmon , hope you are doing well.
I had the same problem - i.e. spell check is not working in teams. I deleted the content of the C:\Users\appdata\roaming\Microsoft\teams\dictionaries folder, restarted Teams, but the issue persisted.
This is how I solved the problem:
# I opened the log.txt file located in "C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Teams" folder.
# I found the following error "error -- spellCheckerService initialization failed: Message: es-419 is not a valid language code"
Which means es-49 (Spanish - Latin America) is not supported by the spellCheckerService.
# I removed Spanish - Latin America configuration from the preferred languages in Windows (I am using Windows 10): Windows Settings -> Time & Language -> Language -> Preferred Languages
# Restarted the computer (just to be on the safe side)
# Logged in on Teams --> and it worked.
Note: English-US is the default language in my computer. Yet, Teams tried to set the Spell Check service to Spanish Latin America for some reason.
Note2: In your case, the spellCheckerService may be trying to initialize using a different language.
Hope it helps,
-F
AndrewClark thanks for the inputs. I had exactly the same issue as you have described in your post. Instead of copying chrome's dictionary *.bdic file, what I did was, just took a backup of these files (for some reasons I had 2 files) and deleted them from C:\Users\{your user}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Teams\Dictionaries.
As soon I restarted teams again, it auto generated a fresh file and the error was gone. But your method did the trick and now I get proper suggestions.
Thank you.
Hridesh Hello! I opened the C:\Users\{user}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Teams\dictionaries and i even do not have English dictionary there.
- My colleagues and I are having issues with the spell check in Teams. The issue being that it is enabled in the settings but still doesn't work. I have tried the 'remove the tick and add it again' trick but didn't work. I also saw something that said to delete the 'US.bdic file' which I did but it also didn't work. Is there anything else that can be done?
From a very stressed bad speller...
