Check Spelling and Grammar

Word can act as the reader over your shoulder, checking as you type for spelling mistakes, typos, and possible grammatical errors. This saves time since you don’t have to wait for the spelling checker or grammar checker to review your document. And there’s no need to review every word or phrase that Word questions; you act on only those that you want to change.

Spelling and Grammar Status icon

Jump to the next mistake   Double-click the Spelling and Grammar Status icon on the status bar. An “x” on the icon indicates that the document contains spelling or grammatical mistakes; a check mark indicates that Word didn’t find any mistakes. Do you find the wavy underlines distracting?   To temporarily hide the underlines, click Options (Tools menu). On the Spelling & Grammar tab, select the Hide spelling errors in this document check box and the Hide grammar errors in this document check box. Don’t want to see the same spelling mistake again?   Right-click the mistake, point to AutoCorrect, and then select a correction. The next time you make the same mistake, Word will fix it for you. Spelling and Grammar button Check spelling and grammar on demand   If you want to free more memory, turn off automatic spelling checking and grammar checking: Click Options (Tools menu). On the Spelling & Grammar tab, clear the Check spelling as you type and Check grammar as you type check boxes. Then, when you want to check spelling and grammar, click the Spelling and Grammar button.