Spell Check In Excel 2016 Not Working

Excel doesn t check spelling in cells that contain formulas.

Spell check in excel 2016 not working. Reinstalling office 365. When she opened excel 2016 she d click on the review tab and then click the spelling button and nothing would happen. 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.

Then run spell check as normal. Open the excel sheet now right click on the name of your excel sheet. Open most office programs click the review tab on the ribbon.

Open your workbook and navigate to your worksheet. In excel 2007 click the office button and then click excel options. In the ribbon open the review tab.

In excel 2010 or a later version display the file tab of the ribbon and then click options. Now all the available sheets in your excel file will be selected. After trying a few common troubleshooting techniques i did some online research and found this microsoft user forum post which gave me the solution.

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. Run the spelling and grammar checker manually to start a check of the spelling and grammar in your file just press f7 or follow these steps. User has excel 2016 installed on her machine along with smartview addin.

You can tell it to spell check multiple sheets at once with a simple trick. First things first the excel spell checker is located in the review tab. When using spell check in excel the window pops up and if you click for example ignore it takes upwards of 30 seconds before it moves to the next word.