Checking the Spelling of Your Worksheet

After you create a workbook and fill it with data, labels, and explanatory text, you should always use the Excel spelling checker to check your text for misspellings. If Excel finds a word it doesn’t recognize, the spelling checker will ask you whether it’s correct and, if not, might suggest alternatives.

You can have Excel ignore a word once or for the entire document, choose one of the program’s suggestions, or even add new words to the dictionary. Products are often given unique names, so adding them to the dictionary Excel uses to check all documents will save you a lot of time.

Check Spelling

  1. Click the Review tab.

  2. In the Proofing group, click Spelling. If you are asked whether you want to save your work, do so.

  3. Follow any of these steps:

    • Click Ignore Once to ignore the current misspelling.

    • Click Ignore All to ignore all instances of the misspelled word.

    • Click Add to Dictionary to add the current word to the dictionary.

    • Click the correct spelling and then click Change to replace the current misspelling with the correct word.

    • Click the correct spelling and then click Change All to replace all instances of the current misspelling with the correct word.

    • Click Cancel to stop checking spelling.

  4. Click OK to clear the dialog box that appears after the spelling check is complete.

    Check Spelling

    Tip

    Tip

    If you didn’t start checking spelling with cell A1 selected, Excel checks spelling to the end of the worksheet and then displays a dialog box asking if you want to continue checking from the beginning of the worksheet. Click Yes to continue.

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