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
    2018-05-21T23:40:47+00:00

    Here, turning off spellcheck and grammar check as you type and running spellcheck manually with F7 certainly flags "was" as grammatically incorrect. (There are of course other issues in the sentences in your screen shot.)

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-05-21T13:31:48+00:00

    Andres

    Thanks.  Microsoft really needs to get on this.  But unfortunately in the past, it usually takes at least dozens of people chiming in that they are experiencing an issue before they admit that it's bug that they created.   At the very least, they need to acknowledge the problem and get the word out that spell checker and grammar checker are not working so people won's rely on it.

    But in the meantime, there's going to be a lot of error-filled documents going out!

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-05-21T13:21:11+00:00

    Sorry I am posting because I forgot to check "notify me".

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  4. Stefan Blom 353K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2018-05-21T11:46:01+00:00

    Thank you for your suggestion. Unfortunately, it did not solve my case (spell-checker in MS Word/Office 365/Win 10 stopped working this month).

    If you have any other ideas, I'm all ears!

    Are you saying that manual spellcheck (F7) fails but that spellchecking as you type is working properly?

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-05-21T10:59:42+00:00

    Thank you for your suggestion. Unfortunately, it did not solve my case (spell-checker in MS Word/Office 365/Win 10 stopped working this month).

    If you have any other ideas, I'm all ears!

    Thanks you,

    Andrés

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