Word 2016 not spell checking
If the spelling check flagged the misspelled words this time, then the problem is in one of your custom dictionaries. This means that Word, when proofing your document, will ignore anything in your custom dictionaries.
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While you can explicitly change it for this particular instance of the word, you might need to change it a lot of other places in the document, as well. If the setting is not made in the style, then that means that someone specifically turned off the proofing for the particular text.
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The solution, in that case, is to either use a different style that allows the proofing, or change the style so that the style permits proofing. (How you check style settings has been covered in other issues of WordTips.) If the setting is made in the style, then any other text formatted with that style in the document will also be skipped during a spelling check. First check to see if this setting is related to whatever style is used to format the selected text. You now need to figure out how pervasive the "no proofing" or "do not check" setting is within the document. Go ahead and dismiss the Language dialog box for now. Don't change the setting yet you still have some detective work to figure out the actual problem. If either of these settings is true, then Word ignores the selected text when checking either spelling or grammar. If you are using a later version of Word, look at the Do Not Check Spelling or Grammar check box to see if it contains a check mark. If you are using Word 97, check the list of available languages to see if the (no proofing) option is selected. Then select Tools | Language | Set Language. You can find out if this is the case by first selecting the word that was missed during the spell check. The most common reason is that the text has somehow been formatted so that Word ignores it when checking spelling or grammar.
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If the problem occurs in only one document or with some occurrences of misspelled words in a particular document, then that means that the problem is with the document itself. There are several reasons why this situation could occur, which means that you need to do some analysis of the problem document (and Word itself) to figure out what is going on. Barbara is wondering why this would happen. Barbara related a problem that she ran into with a Word document: She ran a spell check and Word did not detect several misspelled words.