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anoneditor
Jul 23, 2021Brass Contributor
New spell check highlight--how to disable
I've noticed a new red highlight (not the red squiggly underline) connected to spell check in Word. It only appears when you mouse over a word that has been flagged by spell check. When you click on ...
ShazLea
Mar 02, 2023Copper Contributor
anoneditor I see I'm replying to an 18 month old post, but we only just got Office 365 at work (a jump from Word 2013!) and this red highlight issue is driving me nuts. I'm googled out about this issue. Did you find out anything? Thanks in advance.
MisterRook
Mar 02, 2023Copper Contributor
ShazLea No new developments here either. Welcome to the thread! That highlighting is still super-frustrating but I just had to learn to deal with it. It does still really slow down my writing though. If I'm working on something very complex with lots of new words, I just have to turn off the spellcheck until I'm at a draft check stage.
And yes, I reported the problem to Microsoft through proper channels back when this thread was first active. I'm sure they don't read those comments either anyway.