spell check is not working...how do I turn it on? (MS Word 2013)

Anonymous
2013-03-26T00:45:00+00:00

I just upgraded to a full version of MS Office 2013. I am using Word and notice two things. One, it is not auto-correcting misspelled words as I type, and two, when I go to the "Review" tab and select "Spelling and Grammar" to do a spell check, it says "Spelling and grammar complete. You're good to go!" This is not correct. 

I've gone to the Options menu. Autocorrect is turned on. Nothing else seems to make logical sense to me.

Is anyone else having this issue? Can someone help? I NEED my spell check.

Thank you

PS. My OS is Win7, 64-bit and I'm using Office 2013.

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  1. Suzanne S Barnhill 279.2K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2014-03-11T23:01:46+00:00

    Have you tried using "Recheck document"?

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  2. Suzanne S Barnhill 279.2K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2014-03-11T23:03:05+00:00

    Oh, good. I'm glad it actually was an installation issue. FWIW, I have just updated the article at http://WordFAQs.mvps.org/MasterSpellCheck.htm to explicitly include Word 2013, to add screen shots for Ribbon versions, and to break down some of the instructions by version to make them clearer.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-04-01T16:32:43+00:00

    Thank you Doug, this worked like a charm!!

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  4. Charles Kenyon 170.8K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2014-04-01T16:57:14+00:00

    Oh, good. I'm glad it actually was an installation issue. FWIW, I have just updated the article at http://WordFAQs.mvps.org/MasterSpellCheck.htm to explicitly include Word 2013, to add screen shots for Ribbon versions, and to break down some of the instructions by version to make them clearer.

    Thank you. This is a cornerstone article for Word users.

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