
When the completed check message appears, click OK. Move through the spelling and grammar issues by selecting the options on the right. The Spelling and Grammar dialog box launches.
In the Proofing group, select Spelling & Grammar.
When your message is composed, on the Message Ribbon, select the Review tab. This feature works the same in all modern versions of Microsoft Outlook: 2010, 2013, and 2016. To check the spelling and grammar in a message, follow these five steps. It is a good idea to check the spelling and grammar of your messages before you send them. When checking spelling and grammar automatically, right-click the word with the red squiggly line, and then click Add to Dictionary. Almost all of the ‘missing’ features will work when you do this.How to Check Spelling and Grammar in Microsoft Outlook See Microsoft Outlook: Tips and Tricks for similar articles. To change the default custom dictionary where these words are added, see Change the custom dictionary to which the spelling checker adds words, below. There is a simple, though odd, fix for this though – simply copy winword.exe (any version) into the same folder where outlook.exe is. This is because for Outlook Spell Checking to work properly, it requires the matching version of Microsoft Word. And there is Spelling & Grammar from the tools drop-down menu. When I go into File tab, Options, and look for the spell check options, they are greyed out. On Menus tab, you can obviously see Tools menu next to Format menu on the toolbar. Most missed is the red underline for misspelled words as I type.
I recently upgrade just my Microsoft Outlook install to 2013, and left my other Microsoft Office apps like Word, Excel, etc at the previous version.Įver since then, Outlook spell check does not work.