Spell Check Excel Document

By default excel only looks at a single sheet when checking spelling.

Spell check excel document. In the ribbon open the review tab. With your excel spreadsheet opened simply navigate to the review tab in the ribbon. Excel doesn t check spelling in cells that contain formulas.

Then run spell check as normal. Click on the review ribbon and choose spelling excel will work through the worksheet or cells you selected and you can choose to change or ignore the spelling errors it finds. Click file options proofing autocorrect options.

To spell check a worksheet click the tab at the bottom of the screen for the worksheet on which you want to run the spell check. Clicking this option will initiate the spell checking. To spell check words in a formula bar select the words.

In the review tab there is an option spelling as shown in the image. Before pressing f7 or the spelling button right click on any sheet tab and click select all sheets. If you select a single cell for spell check excel checks the entire worksheet including the comments page headers footers and graphics.

When you run the spell check it starts from whichever cell is currently selected so if you want to start the spell check at the beginning of the worksheet put the cursor on cell a1 before starting. Check spelling and correct automatically with autocorrect options if you want to automatically correct the wrong spelling you can specify the autocorrect options. Follow the below steps to perform a spell check in excel.

Open a worksheet with some spelling errors. To spell check the entire worksheet simply select a single cell. In order to proof check your worksheet text follow this process.