Office for Mac applications automatically check for potential spelling and grammatical errors as you type. If you’d rather wait to check spelling and grammar until you're done writing, you can turn off automatic checking, or you can check spelling and grammar all at once.

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Note: For information about checking spelling and grammar in Office for Windows, see Check spelling and grammar in Office.

With Mac OS X Mail, you don't have to take that extra step if you set the app up to check for, flag, and correct misspellings automatically as you type. The program underlines with a dotted line any spelling mistake that its spell-checker detects and changes it to the proper spelling. Airmail has a message sending delay feature that can be found in Airmail Preferences > Composing, similar to that used in Gmail. Can I migrate Airmail to a new Mac or new hard drive? We understand there are times when you will be upgrading to. Office for Mac applications automatically check for potential spelling and grammatical errors as you type. If you’d rather wait to check spelling and grammar until you're done writing, you can turn off automatic checking, or you can check spelling and grammar all at once.

Word

Check spelling and grammar automatically as you type

Word automatically checks for and marks potential spelling errors with a red squiggly line.

Word also checks for and marks potential grammatical errors with a green squiggly line.

Tip: If spelling or grammatical errors aren't marked, you might need to turn on automatic spelling and grammar checking, which is explained in the next procedure.

When you see a spelling or grammatical error, Control click the word or phrase and choose one of the options.

If Word has incorrectly flagged a word as misspelled and you want to add that word to your dictionary so that Word will properly recognize it in the future see Add or edit words in a spell check dictionary

Turn on (or off) automatic spelling and grammar checking

1. On the Word menu, click Preferences > Spelling & Grammar.
2. In the Spelling & Grammar dialog box, under Spelling, check or clear the Check spelling as you type box.
3. Under Grammar, check or clear the Check grammar as you type box.
4. Close the dialog box to save your changes.

Check spelling and grammar all at once

1. On the Review tab, click Spelling & Grammar.
2. If Word finds a potential error, the Spelling & Grammar dialog box will open, spelling errors will be shown as red text, and grammatical errors will be shown as green text.
3. To fix an error, do one of the following:
   • Type the correction in the box and then click Change.
   • Under Suggestions, click the word you want to use, and then click Change.
   To skip the error, do one of the following:
   • Click Ignore to skip only that instance of the error.
   • Click Ignore All to skip all instances of the error.
   • For a grammatical error, click Next Sentence to skip that instance of the error and move to the next error.
   To skip a misspelled word in all documents, click Add to add it to the dictionary. This only works for misspelled words. You can’t add custom grammar to the dictionary.
4. After you correct, ignore, or skip an error, Word moves to the next one. When Word finishes reviewing the document, you’ll see a message that the spelling and grammar check is complete.
5. Click OK to return to your document.

Recheck the spelling and grammar that you previously checked and chose to ignore

You can clear or reset the list of Ignored Words and Grammar so Word will check for spelling and grammar issues you previously told it to ignore.

Note: When you reset the list of Ignored Words and Grammar, the list is cleared only for the currently open document. Any spelling or grammar issues you told Word to ignore in other documents won't be affected.

1. Open the document that needs to be checked.
2. On the Tools menu, point to Spelling and Grammar, and then click Reset Ignored Words and Grammar.
   Word displays a warning about the operation resetting the spelling checker and the grammar checker.
3. Click Yes to proceed.
4. Click the Review tab, and then click Spelling & Grammar to check spelling and grammar.

Outlook

Check spelling and grammar automatically as you type

By default, Outlook checks for spelling errors as you type. Outlook uses a dashed red underline to indicate possible spelling errors and a dashed green line to indicate possible grammatical errors.

1. When you see a word with a dashed underline, Control click the word or phrase and choose one of the options.
2. On the shortcut menu, do one of the following:
   • Click one of the guesses at the top of the shortcut menu.
   • Click Ignore Spelling to ignore one instance of the word.
   • Click Learn Spelling to add the word to the spelling dictionary.

Turn on (or off) automatic spelling and grammar checking

After opening an email message:

• To have Outlook correct spelling mistakes automatically, on the Outlook menu, click Preferences. Click on Spelling and Grammar under Personal Settings. Click box next to Checkspelling as you type.
• To turn automatic grammar checking on or off, on the Outlook menu, click Preferences. Click on Spelling and Grammar under Personal Settings. Click box next to Check grammar as you type.

Check spelling and grammar all at once

You can correct all the spelling and grammar issues at the same time after you finish composing a message or other items.

1. On the Edit menu, point to Spelling and Grammar, and then click Spelling and Grammar...
2. Do any of the following:
   • In the list of suggestions, click the word that you want to use, or enter a new spelling in the box at the top, and then click Change.
   • Click Ignore to ignore this word and move on to the next misspelled word.
   • Click Add to add the word to the spelling dictionary.

Tip: The keyboard shortcut for skipping to the next spelling or grammar error is + ; .

PowerPoint

You can check spelling in PowerPoint, but you can't check grammar.

Check spelling automatically as you type

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PowerPoint automatically checks for and marks potential spelling errors with a wavy, red underline: