
They are variations of English for Australia, Canada, United States. Looking at the screen print above, you’ll notice that I have three proofing languages above the double line. Spell Check options on Language and Formatting Panel Are Multiple Proofing Languages Set This will open the Language dialog box, and you can deselect the check spelling or grammar option checkbox. To fix the issue, highlight your paragraph and click the Language link in the Reveal Formatting dialog. Word did not flag this instance because the paragraph was marked not to do spelling or grammar checks. In the above example, I misspelled the word “government”. Reveal Formatting Panel with Do not check spelling or grammar Generally, these keyboards have an F Lock key on the top row because there are other functions mapped. Tip: If you don’t see the pane, you may have some sort of Function lock on your keyboard. In the example below, the highlighted paragraph is coded not to check for spelling. This opens the Reveal Formatting pane, where you can verify that your correct language is what you expect and if the paragraph has spell check turned off. So instead, I find a paragraph with a spelling mistake, highlight it, and press Shift + F1.

This alert message suggests that your document has a section marked “ Do not check spelling or grammar.” Unfortunately, I don’t know any easy way to find these marks. Word alert about skipped spell and grammar check

However, in Microsoft 365, I no longer get this alert even if I have spelling errors. On older versions of Microsoft Word, I would get the following message as shown below. Highlighting the entire document would overwrite all paragraph settings throughout.

However, one reason you want to correct this issue is that it may interfere with calculating your Word readability statistics. Usually, I can solve the issue with the steps below unless it’s a protected Microsoft Word document.

I’ve encountered this annoyance many times.
