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Turn off spell checking in Teams
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.
ChristianBergstrom I'm a data architect and talk database-ese. I hate having 50% or more of my typed words containing an ugly, garish, red underline to let me know I misspelled words like DTID. Forcing spellcheck was one of the worst decisions made about this app. Attributes like this make Teams feel like an alpha build.
- Hi Christian,
Couldn't resist a little snark huh? 🙂 I just found that they finally added the capability to turn it off. My point is, it never should’ve been released in the first place without the ability to turn it off.
Thanks,
Mike- Sorry, that wasn't my intention. But you replied to something I wrote almost a year ago. So from my point of view I didn't understand why not disabling it. Nothing else 🙂
- Hi, Christian, and thanks!
I'm actually looking for that option now because I was told MS Teams didn't have the alternative of turning off Spell Check. Can you tell me where you clipped that screenshot?
Best,
Tom- Hi Tom,
Just click on your picture and choose “Settings” a few lines down the page. The Settings window will pop up. At the bottom of the Settings window will be “Enable spell check”. Uncheck that and click “Restart”.
The good news: It actually turns it off and I also restarted Teams and it was still turned off.
Hope this helps,
Mike- thanks, but there is no such option, I used a weird workaround, suggested in an earlier message, decided to chack now on a new computer, but no luck, not possible
- Hi, top right corner under Settings - General.
ChristianBergstrom - thank you for your reply, but there is no such option - I thought I might need an update, but just installed fresh - there is a workaround though.. (see earlier messages)
