I have my Teams language set to English (United States), have enabled spell check in Teams, and restarted (force quit) Teams, yet spellcheck is not working for me at all in the new Teams. I know on January 17, 2023, Microsoft included the following spellcheck issues in their list of known issues with Teams : On Windows, spell checking is limited to English (United States) dictionaries. Until this feature is fixed, users can disable spell checking from the settings page. Some spell checker suggestions for English can be inaccurate. A Windows fix is pending, with an estimated rollout date of January. Users can choose to disable spell checking from the settings page until then. However, the issue seems to be broader than that, as I'm not just getting inaccurate suggestions, I'm not getting any suggestions at all. It is not underlining incorrect words, and it is not providing any suggestions. I typed a message into a Teams chat with simple mistakes, then waited 15 seconds in case maybe there's a delay in spellcheck, but nothing gets highlighted as incorrect. (screenshot below) My Teams version info: You have Microsoft Teams version 23335.232.2637.4844(preview). You've got the latest version. It was last updated on 1/23/2024.The client version is 49/24010419113.

Same issue here. The problem is not Teams or Windows settings, something in Teams is breaking the spell check. If you clear the Teams cache then spelling starts working again. After a few minutes you get a prompt to "Update and restart". Once you do this then spelling stops working. I assume Teams is downloading some new files or is applying some policy settings and this is what breaks it. This is not just non-USA regional spell checking, this is all spelling checking that stops working. Our users would be happy if they could get even USA spell checking! I've raised a ticket through our Unified support route, however nobody there seems to have any kind of clue what's going on and just wants to close the ticket :-(

Resetting the Teams app worked for me, but I'm sure it will break again at some point until Microsoft releases a fix for the issue. I followed these steps: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/troubleshoot/teams-administration/clear-teams-cache#new-teams Note that the first step means your computer settings, not within Teams.

We are having the issue as well. We have about 100 users running the new Teams (Windows 10) and the spell check will randomly stop working.. Sometimes in an hour or two, sometimes a bit longer. The only way we are able to fix it is to do a cache reset on Teams 2.0. This will fix it, but only for a little while. It's probably been reported by several users, including myself.

Hello, ever since my teams was updated , spell check no longer works. I have abled and disabled it and still nothing. English United States is my only language. Please advise. I NEED SPELL CHECK. Thank you,

Spellchecker in new Teams is not working

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I have my Teams language set to English (United States), have enabled spell check in Teams, and restarted (force quit) Teams, yet spellcheck is not working for me at all in the new Teams.

I know on January 17, 2023, Microsoft included the following spellcheck issues in their list of known issues with Teams:

On Windows, spell checking is limited to English (United States) dictionaries. Until this feature is fixed, users can disable spell checking from the settings page.
Some spell checker suggestions for English can be inaccurate. A Windows fix is pending, with an estimated rollout date of January. Users can choose to disable spell checking from the settings page until then.

However, the issue seems to be broader than that, as I'm not just getting inaccurate suggestions, I'm not getting any suggestions at all. It is not underlining incorrect words, and it is not providing any suggestions.

I typed a message into a Teams chat with simple mistakes, then waited 15 seconds in case maybe there's a delay in spellcheck, but nothing gets highlighted as incorrect. (screenshot below)

My Teams version info:
You have Microsoft Teams version 23335.232.2637.4844(preview). You've got the latest version. It was last updated on 1/23/2024.The client version is 49/24010419113.

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Clearing the cache worked for me on Windows 11 with Teams version 23335.232.2637.4844.

Close Teams, Open this directory: %userprofile%\appdata\local\Packages\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\Microsoft\MSTeams

Delete all files

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2024-01-24T10:35:50+00:00

Same issue here. The problem is not Teams or Windows settings, something in Teams is breaking the spell check.

If you clear the Teams cache then spelling starts working again. After a few minutes you get a prompt to "Update and restart". Once you do this then spelling stops working. I assume Teams is downloading some new files or is applying some policy settings and this is what breaks it.

This is not just non-USA regional spell checking, this is all spelling checking that stops working. Our users would be happy if they could get even USA spell checking!

I've raised a ticket through our Unified support route, however nobody there seems to have any kind of clue what's going on and just wants to close the ticket :-(
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2024-01-24T17:39:12+00:00

Resetting the Teams app worked for me, but I'm sure it will break again at some point until Microsoft releases a fix for the issue.

I followed these steps: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/troubleshoot/teams-administration/clear-teams-cache#new-teams

Note that the first step means your computer settings, not within Teams.
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2024-01-24T15:57:24+00:00

We are having the issue as well. We have about 100 users running the new Teams (Windows 10) and the spell check will randomly stop working.. Sometimes in an hour or two, sometimes a bit longer. The only way we are able to fix it is to do a cache reset on Teams 2.0. This will fix it, but only for a little while. It's probably been reported by several users, including myself.
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2024-01-24T17:51:04+00:00

Hello, ever since my teams was updated , spell check no longer works. I have abled and disabled it and still nothing. English United States is my only language. Please advise. I NEED SPELL CHECK.

Thank you,
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