This will perform a spelling check on the active worksheet:
Simply, select the first cell or the cell from which you'd like to start checking, and do one of the following: No matter which version you are using, Excel 2016, Excel 2013, Excel 2010 or lower, there are 2 ways to spell check in Excel: a ribbon button and a keyboard shortcut. But still Excel provides the basic spell checking functionality and this tutorial will teach you how to get most of it.
It does not offer advanced capabilities like grammar checking, nor does it underline the misspelled words as you type. However, spell check in Excel is not exactly the same as in Word. You will learn how to check spelling in individual cells and ranges, active worksheet and the entire workbook.Īlthough Microsoft Excel is not a word processing program, it does have a few features to work with text, including the spell-checking facility. The tutorial shows how to perform spell check in Excel manually, with VBA code, and by using a special tool.