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.

Spell checking in new Teams is broken for me as well. I write mainly in two languages, Swedish and English. New Teams only does spell checking in Swedish. The "language aware spell checking" isn't working, and since there is no way to set the language of a chat manually this has a big impact. Oddly enough, in New Outlook I have the inverse behavior as I only get spell checking in English, not Swedish. Teams version Microsoft Teams version 24165.1414.2987.41. The client version is 49/24061318408. Windows version Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.3930

In old teams you could change the spell check language with a couple of clicks on the mouse. In the new version the getting the spell check to work for one language is barley possible, seems like only God knows how to set up for multiple languages.

Hello, Is this being worked on by the team or have you outsourced it so it will never be fixed? I have asked out in house team to look at other applications. Can I get a proposed delivery date on this fix? Thanks Darragh

For mounts now is Microsoft stating its team is focusing on this issue with a high priority. It says "Language-aware spell checking is currently not available in the new Teams. The team is focusing on this issue with a high priority. Check back for updates." Well, I'm checking it now and it's the same text from months ago. When I first read it I got the sense of urgency Microsoft was referring to this issue. Focusing... High priority... I thought to myself this problem is going to be solved in a matter of hours or days. A few months later and nothing change in both the issue or the text describing this issue. How can you focus for months op a high priority issue without solving it? i'm a little bit puzzled. Did you ever tried focusing on solving something? after a few minutes you get tired and lose your concentration. And yet for months now the Microsoft team didn't lose their focus on the (high priority) problem. their concentration seems to be extraordinary! Really amazing. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/new-teams-known-issues

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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2024-07-19T06:56:27+00:00

Spell checking in new Teams is broken for me as well. I write mainly in two languages, Swedish and English. New Teams only does spell checking in Swedish. The "language aware spell checking" isn't working, and since there is no way to set the language of a chat manually this has a big impact.

Oddly enough, in New Outlook I have the inverse behavior as I only get spell checking in English, not Swedish.

Teams version

Microsoft Teams version 24165.1414.2987.41.

The client version is 49/24061318408.

Windows version

Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22635.3930
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Anonymous

2024-07-11T06:34:19+00:00

In old teams you could change the spell check language with a couple of clicks on the mouse. In the new version the getting the spell check to work for one language is barley possible, seems like only God knows how to set up for multiple languages.
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2024-07-09T08:17:12+00:00

Hello,

Is this being worked on by the team or have you outsourced it so it will never be fixed? I have asked out in house team to look at other applications.

Can I get a proposed delivery date on this fix?

Thanks

Darragh
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2024-07-05T15:13:04+00:00

For mounts now is Microsoft stating its team is focusing on this issue with a high priority.

It says "Language-aware spell checking is currently not available in the new Teams. The team is focusing on this issue with a high priority. Check back for updates."

Well, I'm checking it now and it's the same text from months ago.

When I first read it I got the sense of urgency Microsoft was referring to this issue. Focusing... High priority...

I thought to myself this problem is going to be solved in a matter of hours or days.

A few months later and nothing change in both the issue or the text describing this issue.

How can you focus for months op a high priority issue without solving it? i'm a little bit puzzled.

Did you ever tried focusing on solving something? after a few minutes you get tired and lose your concentration.

And yet for months now the Microsoft team didn't lose their focus on the (high priority) problem. their concentration seems to be extraordinary!

Really amazing.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/new-teams-known-issues
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