This should provide you with an option to Ignore or Change the error as shown in the above screenshot along with the suggestion. If there any errors in the document then you should see a sidebar showing the error staring from the current page. Let us say you want to run through a document for spelling and grammatical errors then you can navigate to Review menu and click the Spelling and Grammar option under Proofing section. The Review menu in Word 2013 has the option to check for spelling and grammar errors. Find below the screen shot for the same Spelling and grammar check in Word 2016, Word 2013 and Word 2010 Updated with readers comment, this seems to have solved the problem for most of the users- Thank You Maria. By checking this field, you can turn on the automatic spell check as you type in Word 2010. This has a checkbox with label as Check spelling as you type. Select Proofing options and navigate to When correcting spelling and grammar in Word section. This feature can be turned on or off using Microsoft Word options.Ĭlick on the File menu –> Options (In Word 2007 it is under Office button –> Word Options) In general Microsoft Office products provides options for automatic spell checkand you can find this feature in Word 2007, Word 2010, Word 2013 and Word 2016.