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. Anonymous
    2017-10-29T02:16:57+00:00

    why is my spell check not working?

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-08-21T13:04:44+00:00

    Thank you very much, you were very helpful.

    Carlos

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-04-16T21:16:22+00:00

    The following may not be a solution to all users, but solved my issue.

    I am a new user to Word 2013 and one of my first documents contained what I knew to be spelling errors.  The spellchecker didn't highlight these words, leading me to this thread.  What I realized was that the incorrectly spelled words were in all capitals.

    Go to FILE: OPTIONS: PROOFING, and uncheck the box that says "Ignore words in UPPERCASE".

    You may have to weed through some acronyms, etc at spell check time, but that's better than an error in the title of your important report or resume!

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    2013-09-24T02:13:10+00:00

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