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Hal_Fogelman
Copper Contributor
Jun 09, 2022

Red lines and spellcheck

Hello.  When I spellcheck a document in Word, the red squiggly line has started appearing, even though none of the spelling-related options are chosen.  Any ideas?  Thank you.

 

 

  • Hal_Fogelman 

     

    If you run a manual spellcheck, for example by pressing the F7 key (or Fn+F7 on some keyboards), Word will underline suspected spelling errors that it finds. As far as I know, this is by design. 

     

    Or are you saying that you see spelling errors being marked even if you don't run spellcheck? In that case, see if some of the spelling / text suggestion options provided by Windows are selected (in Windows Settings).

    • Hal_Fogelman's avatar
      Hal_Fogelman
      Copper Contributor
      Thank you, Stefan. I am speaking of the first situation, doing a manual spellcheck. Until this week, the red squiggly line would not appear for misspelled words.

      • Stefan_Blom's avatar
        Stefan_Blom
        MVP

        Hal_Fogelman 

         

        I am not aware of a recent change in this behavior, but I may have missed it, because I usually run spellchecking during typing.

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