You can check your spelling and grammar in Google Docs, then accept or ignore the corrections. Suggestions are based on your text and don't represent Google's views.
Spelling and grammar suggestions are available in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, and Italian.
Check spelling
Check spelling, then accept or ignore the corrections.
- Open a document in Google Docs.
- In the top left, click Spell Check
. A box will open in the top right 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
. A box will open in the top right corner.
Change all.Add a word to your dictionary
Add words to the dictionary so that Docs doesn't identify them as misspelled.
- Open a document in Google Docs.
- In the top left, click Spell Check
- To add a word that appears in the spell checker to the dictionary, click Add to dictionary.
Remove a word from your dictionary
You can remove a word that you've added to your dictionary.
- Open the document in Google Docs.
- Right-click the word.
- Select Remove from personal dictionary.