Windows 10: Turn On or Off Spell Checking in Windows 10

How to: Turn On or Off Spell Checking in Windows 10

How to Turn On or Off Spelling Autocorrect and Highlight Misspelled Words in Windows 10


Windows 10 includes a spell checking feature for when you type words anywhere in Windows 10.

When autocorrect misspelled words is turned on, it will autocorrect your typed words on the fly if matched with the correct spelling of the word in the dictionary.

When highlight misspelled words is turned on, your typed misspelled words that are not found in the dictionary will be highlighted with a red squiggly line under it. You can then right click on this highlighted misspelled word for more options.

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off spelling autocorrect misspelled words and highlight misspelled words for your user account in Windows 10.


CONTENTS:

• Option One: To Turn On or Off Spelling Autocorrect and Highlight Misspelled Words in Settings
• Option Two: To Turn On or Off Spelling Autocorrect Misspelled Words using a REG file
• Option Three: To Turn On or Off Spelling Highlight Misspelled Words using a REG file

EXAMPLE: Highlight misspelled words









OPTION ONE [/i] To Turn On or Off Spelling Autocorrect and Highlight Misspelled Words in Settings
1. Open Settings, and click/tap on the Devices icon.

2. Click/tap on Typing on the left side, and turn on (default) or off Autocorrect misspelled words for what you want. (see screenshot below)

3. Turn on (default) or off Highlight misspelled words for what you want. (see screenshot below)









OPTION TWO [/i] To Turn On or Off Spelling Autocorrect Misspelled Words using a REG file

*note The .reg files below add and make changes to DWORD value in the registry key below.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\TabletTip\1.7

EnableAutocorrection DWORD

0 = off
1 = on

1. Do step 2 (on) or step 3 (off) below for what you would like to do.


2. To Turn On Spelling Autocorrect Misspelled Words
*note This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Turn_On_Autocorrect_Misspelled_Words.reg

Download

3. To Turn Off Spelling Autocorrect Misspelled Words
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Turn_Off_Autocorrect_Misspelled_Words.reg

Download
4. Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5. Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6. If prompted, click on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7. You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.





OPTION THREE [/i] To Turn On or Off Spelling Highlight Misspelled Words using a REG file

*note The .reg files below add and make changes to DWORD value in the registry key below.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\TabletTip\1.7

EnableSpellchecking DWORD

0 = off
1 = on

1. Do step 2 (on) or step 3 (off) below for what you would like to do.


2. To Turn On Spelling Highlight Misspelled Words
*note This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Turn_On_Highlight_Misspelled_Words.reg

Download

3. To Turn Off Spelling Highlight Misspelled Words
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Turn_Off_Highlight_Misspelled_Words.reg

Download
4. Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5. Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6. If prompted, click on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7. You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.

That's it,
Shawn


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auto capitalization windows 10 Mail - how do I shut this off?

Hi,

I found a way to turn the auto correction off, it's described here for Windows 8, but works in Windows 10 aswell.

Here's the link:

How to turn off spell check and auto correct in Windows 8 & 10

 

Annoying spell correction Windows Live Mail

Windows Live Mail in Windows 10: I work with EHR (electronic health records), and, despite adding EHR to the accepted spelling list in Windows Live Mail, every time I type EHR it immediately changes to HER. I don't want to turn off the spell check,
I want to turn off the correction from EHR to HER.

 

Hello David, and welcome to Ten Forums. *Smile

Please post a screenshot showing your "Devices" Settings to see what may be wrong.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1...en-forums.html

 

This is my setting,no typing option

 

David,

It doesn't look like you have the latest build of Windows 10 installed from Windows Update. What build do you currently have installed?

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2...mber-find.html

 

Are you able to upgrade to the latest build via Windows Update?

 

Yeah sure,my Windows update is working fine, but I don't have wifi.

 

If you have an Internet connection, you should be able to update unless you are limited by a monthly data allotment.

 

Exactly, I'm using my mobile data and it's not that cheap.

I think I'm gonna keep it like that.

Thanks for the help.

 

You're welcome. If you have a friend that will let you connect to their Internet, that would be a good option to use if you like.

 

Having the exact same issue with my Lenovo Yoga Tab 2. Typing in tablet mode is extremely frustrating as it doesn't do the following:

- Won't capitalize the first letter in a starting sentence
- Zero auto-correct of mispelled words
- No predictive words shown (this is probably because I had "send text to microsoft" turned off so I just turned that on)
- doesn't correct simple things like adding an apostrophe when I type "dont"

Very painful. Attached are my settings, any help would be great!





IP_CENTCOM_Debug.log

 

Last pic..

 

Hello pbc, *Smile

Do you have options to select from when you right click on the word underlined in red as misspelled?

 

Yes, if there is a red line on a misspelled word I can right click to see options (not sure how to do it when in table mode though.. *Smile ).

But still do not get any predictions or suggestions, nor does it capitalize/insert apostrophe, etc.

Thanks!