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.

This resolved the spell checker issue in Teams for me. The New Teams was installed automatically but the old version remained. As soon as the old version was uninstalled, spell checking started working in the new version. Note: I had previously Reset the new version of Teams.

I've been having the same issue and found that the New Teams is the issue, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't and lately it just completely stopped working. I'm only using Teams for work and after many restarting that never worked I just reverted back to the Old Teams and guess what? it now works how its supposed to work. The only issue I have using Old Teams is it shows (EA) by my profile pic every time I open Teams. Yes, I did uncheck both 3rd parties notifications Desktop and Web but it continues to recheck itself no matter how many times I uncheck it. But I'm ok with that if I can get Spell Check to work correctly. Hope this works for you also.

still not working, even with this workaround way of trying to uninstall everything and reinstall! DEV LOG AND FIX!

It's Feb 1st. Still having the issue, it appears this has not been resolved.

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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Anonymous

2024-02-01T16:41:48+00:00

This resolved the spell checker issue in Teams for me. The New Teams was installed automatically but the old version remained. As soon as the old version was uninstalled, spell checking started working in the new version.

Note: I had previously Reset the new version of Teams.
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Anonymous

2024-02-01T16:54:20+00:00

I've been having the same issue and found that the New Teams is the issue, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't and lately it just completely stopped working. I'm only using Teams for work and after many restarting that never worked I just reverted back to the Old Teams and guess what? it now works how its supposed to work.

The only issue I have using Old Teams is it shows (EA) by my profile pic every time I open Teams. Yes, I did uncheck both 3rd parties notifications Desktop and Web but it continues to recheck itself no matter how many times I uncheck it. But I'm ok with that if I can get Spell Check to work correctly.

Hope this works for you also.
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Anonymous

2024-02-01T17:42:41+00:00

still not working, even with this workaround way of trying to uninstall everything and reinstall!

DEV LOG AND FIX!
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Anonymous

2024-02-01T18:19:36+00:00

It's Feb 1st. Still having the issue, it appears this has not been resolved.
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