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Asotte
Copper Contributor
Oct 13, 2025
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Spellcheck problem

Since a few days, my Word Online refuses to give suggestions for spellchecking. I already contacted support, but they cant help me. I will add a screenshot for clarity. Can anyone please help me ...
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  • Jannep's avatar
    Jannep
    Oct 23, 2025

    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.

Jannep's avatar
Jannep
Copper Contributor
Oct 23, 2025

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.

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Stefan_Blom
MVP
Oct 23, 2025

Thanks for the information. When I test your suggestion and change the preferred display language in my browser, spellchecking works, even in Swedish. 

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