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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.
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
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
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
