Hello Everyone,




Within Word I need to disable the spelling and grammar on a laptop for exam purposes. I have googled it and found a way to do it (click on the link below) but I was wondering if this is the only way it has to be done (under the Check spelling and grammar automaticallyheading) or if the actual Word Software has to be amended:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Check-spelling-and-grammar-5890dfce-0903-4241-a933-a4043c6e326d

Many thanks

Stophy

You could create a Word template with all Styles set to 'no proofing' for exam purposes, but it would be an easy matter for anyone to re-set that during the exam - and return it afterwards so no-one would be any the wiser.

Although you could try to delete or rename all the .LEX files, which I believe you'll find in:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office16\PROOF
starting Word (or any other Office program) will then cause Office to launch its setup routines to do a repair.

Ultimately, if you want to prevent the use of spell/grammar checking, tell the users to use WordPad, which comes with Windows and supports formatting but has no spell/grammar checking functions - and, additionally, if you can, don't have Office installed.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

If you use the first method - setting styles in an answer sheet to not check spelling or grammar, you could also restrict editing to only allow use of those styles. However, the suggestion to use WordPad is probably the simplest method.