Use spell-check and autocorrect

Check spelling, then accept or ignore the corrections.

1. Open a document in Google Docs.
2. Click Tools Spelling. A box will open in the top right corner.
3. To use a suggested spelling, click Change. To use the suggested spelling for the whole document, click the Down arrow next to "Change" and click Change all.
4. To ignore a suggestion, click Ignore. If you want the tool to ignore all instances of the word, click the Down arrow next to "Ignore" and click Ignore all.

Add words to the dictionary so that Docs doesn't identify them as misspelled.

1. Open a document in Google Docs.
2. Click Tools Spelling. A box will open in the top right corner.
3. To add a word that appears in the spell checker to the dictionary, click Add to dictionary.

To remove a word from your dictionary:

1. Open the document in Google Docs.
2. Right-click the word.
3. Select Remove from personal dictionary.

Misspelled words are underlined in red. To turn off the underline:

1. Open a document in Google Docs.
2. Click View Show spelling suggestions.
3. The checkmark will disappear to show that it is off.

To turn off automatic corrections:

1. Open a document in Google Docs.
2. Click Tools Preferences.
3. You can change settings for:
   • Automatically capitalize words (English only)
   • Use smart quotes (turns vertical quotes into curly ones)
   • Automatically detect links
   • Automatically detect lists
   • Automatic substitution
4. To choose auto substitutions, uncheck the box next to the word. To delete the auto substitution, click "x" to the right of the word.
5. Click OK.

To always correct a specific word's spelling, right-click on the word and select Always correct to [word].

To undo an automatic correction, after the word is corrected, press Backspace on your keyboard.