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I want to turn off spelling and grammar checking in Onenote on Windows 10. It is the OneNote which is pre-installed on Windows 10, not Office OnenNote.

I followed How to disable auto-correct and highlighted misspelled words in Windows 10, but the app is still showing grammar mistakes.

Please help me completely turn off the spelling and grammar checking.

Greenonline
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Phung Tien Trieu
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For disabling spelling and grammar errors, follow these steps:

  1. Go to Review tab → Language → Language preferences in OneNote from the top ribbon.
  2. OneNote options window will appear, go to Proofing, third from top, you can see the options on the right side.
  3. Click Hide Spelling and grammar errors.
  4. Restart OneNote.

It will disable all the spelling mistakes.

Siva Lokam
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You can't. From a good article:

Note also doesn't respond to the Windows 10 Spelling feature. However, OneNote doesn't even have options to control spelling.

Another reason why I've given up on MS completely.

UPDATE: This has been changed in newer version. See this answer

Art Gertner
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misha256
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I finally managed to get rid of this maddeningly annoying difficulty, i.e. not being able to disable proofing in the OneNote app for Windows 10, simply by updating the app.

The new version lets you "Hide spelling errors" under Settings → Options.

You can update OneNote via the Windows App Store.

Michael Frank
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Lydia
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OneNote 2016 is styled like Office apps. It has Options on the File tab, and this includes Proofing. And it works.

John White
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  1. Goto: Review >> Language >> Language Preferences >> Proofing (on pop up)
  2. Unselect "Check spelling as you type" and "Check grammar with spelling".
  3. Click Ok.
  4. Here's the screenshot for reference: enter image description here

Next time whenever you want to check the spelling explicitly select the text and press - F7.

Vikas Kaushik
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For Mac Users :

OneNote >> Preferences >> Spelling >> 'Uncheck both checkboxes'

OneNote is not a tab in One Note itself, don't try to find it beside home | insert | draw| view. See the top mac window pane

Ravi Godavarthi
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In the one note desktop app there is no way to disable the spell check. But you could log into your acccount at One Note Online. Here they ignore spelling mistakes. But you need to sync you desktop app to access the same from One Note Online.

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user2930104
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SOLUTION APRIL 2017 (NOT 2016 VERSION; NOT BETA):

Top-left menu-button>Settings>Options>Proofing{"Hide spelling errors"}>Off>restart Onenote>voilà!

(...the description is illogical compared to the function, and should have been "show spelling errors" to make sense.)

Thor
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I was able to remove all the highlighted recommendations by unchecking Check Spelling As You Type.

BillS
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It is possible. I just did it.

  1. Simply follow “How to disable auto-correct and highlighted misspelled words in Windows 10”

  2. De-select “Highlight misspelled words”

  3. But then you must restart OneNote for it to take effect.

Re-open OneNote. It will no longer highlight misspelled words. I like OneNote because it's less buggy than other note synchronizers, while staying simple like Notepad.

Poosha
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This is so easy, but took me forever to figure out! Go to

File > Options > Proofing > Hide spelling and grammar errors.

Danigirllovesgod
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