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Spellcheck problem
We have confirmed that this is a bug related to the "display web pages in this language"-setting in your browser. If you set that to english, german, spanish, french or japanese it works but if you select swedish, finnish, danish, hindu, esperanto or some other language it does not work. It is also isolated to Word, Powerpoint spellcheck works. You can have the display language in english and still have spell check in another language.
It is not related to any third party product.
It is confirmed by Microsoft and sent as a bug to the product team.
Your screen shot suggests that Grammarly, a third-party spelling and grammar checker, is installed. Maybe that is why the built-in spellchecker isn't available.
I've removed them and it sadly doesn't make any difference. I've tried Editor, but that just straight up doesn't do anything on Word Online. I really think there's some kind of portal problem. What can be done about this?
I am not seeing the problem here. Did you uninstall Grammarly (you can of course reinstall it later)?
The problem is that spell check refuses to work. I need it for the work I do. Yes, it highlights the mistakes, but it doesnt give the suggestions like it always used to. And as I said in the reply above, I removed it and it did not make any difference. I feel like I'm repeating myself here??