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Valgardur
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Mar 25, 2020
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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...
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  • wolw6789's avatar
    wolw6789
    May 29, 2020

    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.

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241898
Brass Contributor
Jan 22, 2024
Update: in the "NEW Teams", the checkbox to disable Spell Check is now available under Settings - > General -> Scroll to the bottom.
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mtrantalainen-work
Copper Contributor
Aug 26, 2025

This used to be the best solution but as of 2025-08-26 this option is no longer available. There's only option to "Manage" spellchecking languages but if you don't have any language selected, every word will underlined with red squigly line.

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