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.

My Teams does not even have language option. Spell is enabled but it does not work

Check to make sure only 1 version on Teams is installed on your PC. When I switched to the new Teams, it kept the classic version. I tested spellcheck on the classic Teams and it worked just fine. I uninstalled both Classic Teams and the New Teams, then re-installed only the new Teams (work or school), and spellcheck worked.

Thanks for the reply. Yeah, in my case classic teams is long gone. The only thing that bring it back, temporarily, is resetting the cache.

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

2024-01-26T13:31:37+00:00

My Teams does not even have language option. Spell is enabled but it does not work
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2024-01-26T16:02:34+00:00

Check to make sure only 1 version on Teams is installed on your PC. When I switched to the new Teams, it kept the classic version. I tested spellcheck on the classic Teams and it worked just fine. I uninstalled both Classic Teams and the New Teams, then re-installed only the new Teams (work or school), and spellcheck worked.
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2024-01-26T16:18:07+00:00

Thanks for the reply. Yeah, in my case classic teams is long gone. The only thing that bring it back, temporarily, is resetting the cache.
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Anonymous

2024-01-27T01:46:45+00:00

Incredible. What a mess, MS.
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