Forum Discussion

Herman_Verwey's avatar
Herman_Verwey
Copper Contributor
Aug 19, 2020

Spelling and language options.

Hi Everyone. I am Missing a lot of options regarding spelling and grammar in teams? not all the languages are available that you can get in office.  There is also no way to Quickly swap between langu...
languages
microsoft teams
Settings
Spelling
ChristianBergstrom's avatar
ChristianBergstrom
Silver Contributor
Aug 19, 2020

Herman_Verwey Hello! I'm just gonna attach the entire Message center post:

 

(Updated) Teams Desktop: Language-Aware Spellchecking
MC217362, Stay Informed, Published date: Jun 26, 2020
 
Updated July 23, 2020: To ensure the best possible experience for our users, we are delaying some of our deployments to reduce the amount of change flowing into the services. Please see the updated roll-out timeline below
 

Now, Microsoft Teams users can more easily communicate using multiple languages. Users who write different messages in different languages will now see spellchecking relevant to the language they're actively using when typing a message in the Microsoft Teams desktop app.

 

This is a key improvement to the existing Teams Desktop Spellchecking feature, to make it "language-aware" and improve the overall Messaging compose experience for bilingual & multilingual users around the world.

 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&featureid=65446

 

When this will happen

This improvement will start rolling out in August (previously end of June) and conclude by the end of September (previously July).

 

Note: that "language-aware spellchecking" will initially be available for the Windows Desktop client and the General (public cloud) only.

 

Support for Linux and Mac Desktop clients is under active investigation. Support for customers in the M365 Government clouds (GCC, GCC-H, DoD) is also under investigation.

 

How this will affect your organization

 

Now, spellchecking in Teams Desktop (Windows client only) will better support bilingual & multilingual users who write different messages in different languages.

 

Spellchecking will default to the active keyboard language, and if the user switches keyboard language, spellchecking will switch to that language. If a user writes enough messages in a different language in a given Chat or Channel conversation, spellchecking will automatically switch to the relevant language (in this case, a user may see a Compose notification UI letting them confirm/revert the switch).

 

Note:

  • Message language auto-detection occurs client-side -- no typing/writing is sent to, processed by, or stored on any web server
  • This spellchecking improvement addresses some of the key UserVoice feedback about proofing in Teams; support for users writing messages in different languages is a significant request by bilingual/multilingual users and organizations
What you need to do to prepare

 

This is an improvement to existing spellchecking in Teams Desktop and Spellchecking itself can be toggled on/off by users in Teams App Settings > General. You may consider updating your training and documentation as appropriate.

Resources