Spell Check not working in Word 365 after automatic update

Anonymous
2018-02-23T19:51:54+00:00

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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  1. Stefan Blom 353K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2018-07-13T00:57:07+00:00

    Suzanne may be you might want to share with others including myself how you can unselect this without the end user having to clear the entire formatting on a large multi page document? 

    You don't have to clear any formatting. You can select all the text in the document (Ctrl+A) and then (re-)apply the desired language formatting in the Language dialog box (Review | Language | Set Proofing Language).

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-07-12T23:54:34+00:00

    More likely the text was just formatted as "Do not check spelling or grammar."

    Suzanne may be you might want to share with others including myself how you can unselect this without the end user having to clear the entire formatting on a large multi page document? 

    Thanks 😉

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  3. Suzanne S Barnhill 279.4K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2018-07-12T13:53:15+00:00

    More likely the text was just formatted as "Do not check spelling or grammar."

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-07-12T08:59:10+00:00

    Thanks.  And I don't mean to sound unappreciative but  1.  on User Voice and/or the Feedback - the feedback list is not dated and there does not appear any way to sort by date so that's sort of like looking for a needle in a haystack. You can add a comment but that's probably as useless as commenting on this forum; I don't believe anyone at Microsoft is actually reading or responding.  2.  There is no way on User Voice to see if Microsoft has acknowledged the editor.  And 3.  I did send a frown face when this issue was first found more than a month ago, I have gotten no response of acknowledgement.  So basically we are just spinning our wheels.

    Hello, I had this frustrating occurrence happen to me too. I had to 'clear formatting' for all of the text in that document ( a bit of a crap process) but it brought back spellcheck for me. For some unknown reason an imported text field corrupts spellcheck perhaps??

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  5. Stefan Blom 353K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2018-07-05T13:24:24+00:00

    Microsoft does monitor the Uservoice forum; that much we know. If you see the label "Under review" then you know that the suggestion/issue is being looked into.

    But no promises of a fix/improvement/re-design will be given from Microsoft. I believe that most commercial software companies work that way.

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