You can check your spelling and grammar in Google Docs, then accept or ignore the corrections.
Spelling and grammar suggestions are available in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and Italian.
Check spelling and grammar
You can check your spelling and grammar, then accept or ignore the corrections.
- Open a document in Google Docs.
- At the top left, click Spell check
. A box will open in the top right-hand corner.
- To use a suggestion, click Change.
- To ignore a suggestion, click Ignore.
- To accept or ignore all suggestions, click More
Accept all or Ignore all.
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 suggestions on or off.
To quickly accept or ignore the corrections:
- Press Tab to accept the suggestion.
- Right-click the red or blue underline.
- To accept the suggestion, click the edited word.
- To ignore the suggestion, click Ignore.
- To report an incorrect suggestion, click Feedback on suggestion.
You can add words to your personal dictionary so that Docs doesn't identify them as misspelled.
- Open a document in Google Docs.
- At the top, go to Tools
Spelling and grammar
Personal dictionary.
- Enter a word.
- Click Add.
You can also add words to your personal dictionary after they are marked as misspelled.
- Open a document in Google Docs.
- Right-click the word that's underlined in red.
- Click Add to personal dictionary.
Remove a word from your personal dictionary
You can remove a word that you've added to your personal dictionary.
- Open the document in Google Docs.
- At the top, go to Tools
Spelling and grammar
Personal dictionary.
- Find the word that you want to remove.
- To the right of the word, click Delete
.
Check spelling
Check spelling, then accept or ignore the corrections.
- Open a document in Google Docs.
- At the top left, click Spell check
. A box will open in the top right-hand corner.
- To use a suggested spelling, click Change.
- To use the suggested spelling for the whole document, next to Change, click the Down arrow
Change all.
- To ignore a suggestion, click Ignore.
- If you want to ignore all instances of the word, next to Ignore, click the Down arrow
Ignore all.
Add words to the dictionary so that Docs doesn't identify them as misspelled.
- Open a document in Google Docs.
- At the top left, click Spell check
. A box will open in the top-right corner.
- To add a word that appears in the spellchecker to the dictionary, click Add to dictionary.
You can remove a word that you've added to your dictionary.
- Open the document in Google Docs.
- Right-click on the word.
- Select Remove from personal dictionary.