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I cannot get spell check to check my document. Word no longer highlights potential issues, and when I run the spellcheck, even when I KNOW there are misspelled words, spell check completes without prompting me for any problematic words or phrases. (the update also wiped out all of my macros, for the second time this week!)
I have checked the proofing options, and everything appears to be as I want it.
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I have exactly the same problem. Microsoft has offered no solution. Have tried their chat and forums unsuccessfully. I do a lot of writing so the spell checker is very important. I expected better customer service from Microsoft.
Well, I never said that YOU should stop using the grammar checker, only that I don't use it.
On my installation of Office 2016 Professional Plus (which does not have the Editor), "these sentence" is flagged as grammatically incorrect (when language is set to US English):
"Tests" is not flagged and neither is "if their fixes." I certainly agree that this is unacceptable, although the grammar checker has always had limitations.
I guess I'm really wondering what you expect the Community to do about the bug, when you know that we don't work for Microsoft. (Yes, it appears to be a bug, although we don't know if Microsoft will recognize it as a bug.)
Yes, shift F1 says language is English. I did post in UserVoice.
What do you get when you type the sentence in? That would be helpful.
"This is to tests the grammar mistakes in these sentence to see if their fixes."
Thanks
Thank you for your reply.
If "do not check" had been checked for that text, it would have shown up.
With all due respect Stefan, this odd response is not very helpful at all. To say that there have been some reports that grammar checker isn't as useful as can be expected is untrue and more than an understatement. There have been numerous reports that the grammar checker has not worked at all since the update to the new Editor.
To type in: "This is to tests the grammars mistakes in these sentence to see if their fixes." and get zero grammar errors is not even close to "not as useful as can be expected." Try it. Do you think this is acceptable?
And then to 'solve' the problem by saying - just don't use the grammar checker, is a bit bizarre. If grammar checker is not going to work, then it should be removed. Having a broken feature is much, much worse than not having the feature at all?
Feedback has been posted to UserVoice many times; with absolutely no feedback.
Understanding that you are a "Word MVP" volunteer moderator and have no control over bug issues, to say that you just don't use the grammar checker?
Appreciate that you have responded and we will take from your reply that there is and will be no fix to this bug coming anytime soon. This forum has been a colossal waste of time.
There have been some reports in this forum that the grammar checking part of the new Editor isn't as useful as can be expected. Personally I don't use the grammar checker so I can't comment further on that.
What you can do is post feedback in the Uservoice forum at https://word.uservoice.com.