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Turn off spell checking in Teams
Is there any way to turn off spell check in Teams chat? Currently is seems to assume English, but I use Teams to communicate with people in different languages, so turning spell check off would perha...
Valgardur - assuming you are running the Windows Teams client, you can find the responsible settings.json file in USER\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Teams. The file comes with 3x "spellcheckerDisabled":false which can be replaced by "spellcheckerDisabled":true - and it does what is expected from name and value.
Unfortunately Teams will overwrite the setting back to false at next program shutdown since it seems to be a dynamic settings file. But if you mostly standby/hibernate your system with open programmes including Teams, the setting remains active, of course.
To be honest, this is a terrible thing by the developers. The setting is there for a long time already, but has never been published to the GUI.
Valgardur - assuming you are running the Windows Teams client, you can find the responsible settings.json file in USER\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Teams. The file comes with 3x "spellcheckerDisabled":false which can be replaced by "spellcheckerDisabled":true - and it does what is expected from name and value.
Unfortunately Teams will overwrite the setting back to false at next program shutdown since it seems to be a dynamic settings file. But if you mostly standby/hibernate your system with open programmes including Teams, the setting remains active, of course.
To be honest, this is a terrible thing by the developers. The setting is there for a long time already, but has never been published to the GUI.
Hi there. That path (C:\Users ...) does not exist on my computer. Not even close. I have "C:\Users\[my name]\Roaming" - and then "Intel." That's it.
There is no "AppData" or any mention of "Microsoft" or "Teams" in that directory ... or any other I can find. This is a relatively new thread, too. Has MS concocted a major reorganization of these files within Explorer?
Tom
Tom Alongi is it possible that those directories are hidden? In the explorer there is "View" and "Hidden items", turned off by default, an often a nuisance, but sometimes necessary to enable.
Tom Alongi no need to follow up my solution. Deletion of dictionaries works better, and finally it seems that Teams has got the spell check checkbox to the settings in tab General (not sure if it works ...)
- It works but for one time, it keeps coming back after restart teams. Although it will be good to disable it forever
