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How to Turn on and Turn Off Spell Check in PowerPoint

Elise Williams

2024-04-18 11:56:27 • Filed to: PowerPoint Tips • Proven solutions

If you find that Microsoft Office spell checkers are interfering with your work or you don’t need them for whatever reason, you can turn them off. Realized that PowerPoint spell check not working, and you’d like to turn it on or off? Of course, you can do this. The following is how to turn on and turn off spell check in PowerPoint, including how to use a top-quality, easy to use, feature-rich, and intuitive PDF editor and PDF management tool to spell check your PDF documents easily and fast.

How to Turn on and Turn Off Spell Check in PowerPoint

To turn the PPT spell check on or off, whether it’s a spell check in PowerPoint 2007 or other, isn’t very different across the programs. In PowerPoint, go to the “Review” tab and right on to “Spelling & Grammar” or “Spelling.” A dialog box will then highlight all misspelled words, and you can rectify the word, ignore it, or replace it as you want before the program gets on to another misspelled term. However, you might choose not to have the program checking grammar and spelling and turn it on or off.

Step 1. Open PowerPoint

Go to the check spelling in the PowerPoint option by clicking the “File” > “Options” option.

Step 2. Turn on or Turn Off Spell Check

Go to the “Proofing” option and look for the “When Correcting Spelling in PowerPoint” category and either clear or choose “Check spelling as you type.” Do the same on grammar by clearing or selecting the “Check grammar with spelling” check box.

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How to Spell Check PDF Documents

Step 1. Import PDF Document into PDFelement

launch PDFelement and import the PDF file that you intend to spell check by clicking "Add."

Step 2. Select Spell Check

After uploading the file to PDFelement, you can click “File” and go to “Preferences” from where you should select “General” to choose “Enable word spell check.” This ensures PDFelement is enabled to carry out spell checks.

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Step 3. Start Spell Check

Since spell-check is now enabled, go to the PDF document you’ve uploaded and begin spell checking and enhancing the grammar as much as you want. Click the “Edit” tab to enter the editing mode. Once enabled, simply go to some text on the PDF document, click on it, and all the grammatical and spelling errors will be displayed. Right-clicking on the misspellings allows you to rectify the problem, either by ignoring the corrections, adding special terms commonly in use, or replacing the words.