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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.
1. Close Teams.
2. Go to C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Teams\dictionaries
3. Delete any file(s) in that directory.
4. Right-click the folder and go to Properties.
5. In the Security tab, click Advanced.
6. Disable inheritance, select Remove when prompted.
7. Add, select your current machine in the new prompt(in case your corporate network is the default), and type the name "Everyone" in the text field. Let only the checkboxes for read operations be ticked. Click Apply after confirming.
8. Click the Change link where the Owner is, and in the new prompt again make sure your local PC is selected, and write the name "NT SERVICE\TrustedInstaller" in the field, check the replace owners in subdirectories box. Apply. Click OK on all prompts until the folder property windows are closed.
great, this works, perhaps my imagination but it feels like Teams if more slower to start (1-2minutes) and stops and waits when I am typing... still worth it! Again thanks..