Occasionally, you’ll get an error message saying that the text contains too many spelling errors to continue displaying them. This message is misleading because Word can detect almost any number of errors in a document.
Word allows you to format different passages of text in different languages. The automatic spelling checker in Word won’t work if the language changes too many times in the text, for example if styles were incorrectly formatted.
Here’s how to fix the problem:
- First, select the entire text by pressing Ctrl + A. Then click the language displayed in the status bar.
- In the next dialog box, select “English” or the language used in the text.
- Disable the options “Do not check spelling or grammar” and “Detect language automatically”.
- Save your changes by choosing “OK”.
- In most cases, spelling and grammar errors will now be displayed again. If this is not the case, the “Check spelling as you type” option was automatically disabled. In that case, simply check this box again.