However, the browser version will skip styled text previously set using the desktop version. You can't modify a document's style in 365's browser version, so you can't set this option when editing a document there. I recommend that you use this method only for text that you'll never want to evaluate when checking for spelling errors. It's important to recognize that skipping the styled content doesn't mean everything using that style is actually spelled correctly. Figure C If you enable this option, Word will skip text formatted with the specified style when it checks for spelling errors.Īll subsequent checks will skip text with the specified style applied.
Click OK twice and close the Styles task pane.įigure B Open the Language options. Check the Do Not Check Spelling Or Grammar option ( Figure C). In the resulting dialog, choose Language from the Format dropdown ( Figure B). In the Styles task pane, select the style you want to skip. On the Home tab, click the Styles dialog launcher. You can tell Word to skip all content that's formatted with a specific style as follows: When those terms are styled differently from the rest of the document, you're in luck. You might run into this situation when working with scientific or technical content. SEE: Microsoft leads the pack in enterprise collaboration tools-but for how long? 2: Skip styled contentĪdding a few new terms to the dictionary will avoid needless stops, but adding a lot of terms would be tedious. You can't add words to the dictionary while editing a document in 365's browser version. Read How to add a custom dictionary in Word for more information on creating and maintaining a custom dictionary. Create a custom dictionary and add the word there. Add the word to the main dictionary by clicking Add in the Spelling task pane ( Figure A). When this happens, there are two ways to go: The word might be valid for your purposes, but Word doesn't know that. 
If a word isn't in the dictionary, the feature highlights the word and stops, awaiting instructions from you. In a nutshell, if the word's in the dictionary, all is well with the world. Word's Spelling & Grammar feature uses a main dictionary that's adequate for most of us but it can't read your mind. There's no downloadable demonstration file for this article you won't need one. Some of these methods aren't available in 365's browser version and I'll note those as necessary. I'm using Word 2016 desktop on a Windows 10 64-bit system but these methods will work in older versions of Word and other Office applications.
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