Correct your spelling & grammar
Grammar suggestions might be available if you're signed in to a work or school account.
To help Google Docs find misspellings and grammatical errors, set your language. Click File 
Check spelling & grammar
You can check your spelling and grammar, then accept or ignore the corrections.
- Open a document in Google Docs.
- Click Tools
Spelling and grammar
- To use a suggestion, click Accept.
- To ignore a suggestion, click Ignore.
- To accept or ignore all suggestions, click More
If you have spelling and grammar suggestions turned on, misspelled words are underlined in red, and grammar suggestions are underlined in blue. Learn how to turn spelling and grammar suggestions on or off.
To quickly accept or ignore the corrections:
- Right-click the red or blue underline.
- To accept the suggestion, click the edited word.
- To ignore the suggestion, click Ignore.
You can add words to the dictionary so Docs doesn't identify them as misspelled.
- Open a document in Google Docs.
- Click Tools
- To add a word that appears in the spell checker to the dictionary, click Add to dictionary.
You can remove a word from your dictionary.
- Open the document in Google Docs.
- Right-click the word.
- Select Remove from personal dictionary.
Turn off autocorrect
To turn off automatic substitutions, capitalization, smart quotes, and list or link detection:
- Open a document in Google Docs.
- Click Tools
- To turn off certain auto corrections, like automatic capitalization or link detection, uncheck the box next to the function.
- To turn off certain auto substitutions, uncheck the box next to the word.
- To delete the auto substitution, next to the word, click Remove
.
- Click OK.
To always correct a specific word's spelling:
- Right-click on the word.
- Click Always correct to [word].
- After the word is corrected, hover your cursor over the word.
- Click Undo or Turn off to permanently turn off that type of correction.
Misspelled words are underlined in red. Grammar suggestions are underlined in blue. To turn off the underline:
- Open a document in Google Docs.
- Click Tools
- The check mark will disappear to show that it is off.
Note: This will turn suggestions on or off for all of your documents.
Spelling suggestions are powered by machine learning. As language understanding models use billions of common phrases and sentences to automatically learn about the world, they can also reflect human cognitive biases. Being aware of this is a good start, and the conversation around how to handle it is ongoing. Google is committed to making products that work well for everyone, and are actively researching unintended bias and mitigation strategies.
