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Checking Spelling
Creating quality, error-free, and easy-to-read content is a natural objective when you use an Office application. Fortunately, Office offers a spelling checker to help eliminate spelling errors. You can also spell check your entire document at once.
On the Review tab, click the Spelling & Grammar button. (In Excel and PowerPoint, this is called the Spelling button.)
The Spelling pane opens, and the spell checker starts examining your document.
Select the correct spelling, and click the Change button.
Click the Ignore button if the suspected misspelling isn’t an error.
Click the Add button to add the word as-is to the dictionary.
NOTENo Spelling Errors If your document contains no errors, Office displays a dialog box informing you of this and doesn’t open the Spelling pane.
TIPChange or Ignore All To save time, you can click either the Change All button or Ignore All button to resolve all instances of the suspected error at once.
Office notifies you when the spelling checker is finished. Click OK to close the notification.
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CAUTION
Spelling Checker Limitations Keep in mind that although an automated tool can help you catch errors, it isn’t foolproof and doesn’t take the place of thorough proofreading by a person.
NOTE
Spelling Options By default, Office checks spelling as you type and displays a red squiggly line under all suspected misspellings. To modify the default spell-checking options, click the File tab, select Options in Backstage view, and click Proofing.