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I have defined a style in my document:
However, when I apply it, spelling is still being flagged in the text the style is applied to. How can I fix this? Thanks all!
You may have to explicitly choose a language for which you do not want spellchecking and grammar checking. This is a bit confusing, but it is worth testing. For example, you can set the Language of the style to "US English" while you specify "Do not check grammar or spelling."
Why I initially created the style, I selected 'English' as the language. This did not appear to have any effect.
@DavidPendleton-7654, try selecting a "flavor" of English which is different from the default of the parent style (= Normal) and see if that makes a difference. Also remember to specify "Do not check grammar or spelling."
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Creating the style using a macro does not require selection of a language. However, creation through the interface does. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/creating-no-proofing-styles-in-microsoft-word-no/999c8de4-dac2-4fac-be07-ab55e8d636cc
That looks like it should be working.
Is this a paragraph style? Why have it based on the normal style?
How are you applying it? Do you have text selected?
Consider using a character style instead of a paragraph style if used for selected text.
See my article Creating "no proofing" styles in Microsoft Word.
If you want, save a sample document with the problem on OneDrive or DropBox and post a link here. Here is my article on how to do this.
I modified the style slightly:
and it appears to work correctly when I select text and apply the style. However, text that I had previously applied the style to have not changed; it still flags spelling and grammar errors. I don't know enough about styles to know how to correctly set one up.
Edit: unfortunately, now it has stopped applying the italic property to the selected text.
![](data:image/svg+xml, %3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' height='64' class='font-weight-bold' style='font: 600 30.11764705882353px "SegoeUI", Arial' width='64'%3E%3Ccircle fill='hsl(147.20000000000002, 13%, 24%)' cx='32' cy='32' r='32' /%3E%3Ctext x='50%25' y='55%25' dominant-baseline='middle' text-anchor='middle' fill='%23FFF' %3EJH%3C/text%3E%3C/svg%3E)
As Charles Kenyon suggested, could you please try the "character style"?
Based on my tests, the style with no English (United Kingdom) language proofing and Italic format work on previous and new text after applying it.
Sorry to bother you, just want to check whether the character style is helpful to you.
Any update, please feel free to let us know.
Again, you can attach a sample document with the problem using the paperclip icon. Or to maintain more control over the document, save to OneDrive or DropBox and post a link here.
Also, I really, really, really dislike "linked" styles. In my experience, they cause problems. More on this: https://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm#Character