You’re good to go.”Ĭuriously, this appears to be an inconsistent bug or problem in Excel 2016. If nothing is misspelled you should see a message that reads something like “Spell check complete. Test spellcheck by clicking on the Review tab and then clicking the Spelling button.Open Excel and create a new blank document.Click on the list of languages and select English (US), or whichever language you prefer. Click the Dictionaries button next to Custom Dictionary.Click on the Spelling & Grammar button.

Click on the Word menu and select Preferences.

(Don’t simply click the red dot to close your current Excel document, click on the Excel menu and select Quit Excel.) The steps are detailed in the post, but I’ll re-post them here. When she opened Excel 2016, she’d click on the Review tab and then click the Spelling button and nothing would happen.Īfter trying a few common troubleshooting techniques I did some online research and found this Microsoft User Forum post which gave me the solution. Spellcheck worked properly for her in Word 2016. A client recently reported having this problem. Do you have Office 2016 installed on your Mac? By any chance does the spellcheck feature work in Word but not Excel? Here’s a possible fix.

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