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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 great lead on changing dictionaries!
In my case I found all the en-US-?-?.bdic google dictionaries here:
%LocalAppData%\Google\Chrome\User Data
and all the teams dictionaries here:
%AppData%\Microsoft\Teams\dictionaries
Also I found the dictionaries can be edited
https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/editing-the-spell-checking-dictionaries
Whether there is a dictionary file or not seems to make no difference. If you completely uninstall and reinstall Teams, it does not even create a Dictionary folder and yet, spell check works. Then it mysteriously stops working. Also, if you reinstall Teams, the spell check works but if you reboot your computer, it stops working. Even if you delete the entire %AppData%\Microsoft\Teams folder and restart Teams, spell check still doesn't work.
- My spellcheck works except if I type "teh" instead of "the". There isn't a dictionary either. the only thing I can think of is in Word, I set "teh" to autocorrect to "the", but I wouldn't think that should make a difference since Teams doesn't have that autocorrect option.