Microsoft promises to enhance spell checking in Teams

Microsoft constantly improves Teams and the latest unified experience greatly increased its adoption. However, many users complained on the Microsoft Answers forum about the spellcheck feature offering a lot of wrong corrections in English.

Well, that is about to change because according to a recent Microsoft 365 roadmap entry, Microsoft is planning an enhanced spellcheck feature that will be available in multiple languages. Here’s how the software giant describes it:

Enhanced spell check will help ensure that your messages are clear and professional. When you type your message in the Teams compose box, any issue found will be marked. You can then choose to correct them from options suggested in a dropdown menu, ignore them or add to dictionary. With multi-language support, you can switch between up to three languages.

It seems that the feature will not change the usage method. The messages from the compose box will be analyzed and the wrongly spelled words will be highlighted, offering changes in the contextual menu. However, we hope that the quality of the spellchecking will be actually improved this time.

Microsoft doesn’t mention if this feature will be AI-powered for Teams to make contextual suggestions to your sentences and phrases. The enhanced spell check in Teams will start rolling in February 2025, when we will also get further details and get to test the feature.

Until then, you may also learn how to turn on the Autocorrect feature in Windows 11.

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