Fix Spelling Errors
Overview
Zoho Writer provides built-in proofing tools to help you catch spelling mistakes as you type, customize dictionaries, use context dictionaries (e.g. medical, legal), and choose or change your spell check language. The goal is to reduce manual errors and make editing smoother.
Key features include:
- Real-time spell checking
- Custom (personal) dictionary
- Domain-specific dictionaries (medical, legal)
- Thesaurus lookup
- Ability to change language / locale for spell checking
Steps
Turn on spell check
You can turn spell check on or off as and when you like.
To turn on spell check,
- Go to Tools > Spell Check.
- Enable the Spelling errors option.
Change the spell check language
To change the spell check language,
- Go to Tools > Spell Check.
- Choose the Language option from the drop-down.
- In the "Language & Region" pop-up that follows, change the Locale settings based on your requirements.
Spell check must be turned on before you change the spell check language. Also, changing the Locale settings will affect spelling and grammar suggestions, currency, and number formats. To change global settings, go to Settings from your document. Click here for detailed steps.
Supported spell check languages
You can do spell check in Writer in a variety of languages listed in the table below:
| Afrikaans | Français - French | Melayu - Malaysia | Español(ES) |
| አማርኛ Ethiopian | Frysk - Frisia | മലയാളം - Malayalam | Español(CL) |
| Arabicالعربية | Galego (Galicia spain) | मराठी -Marathi | Español(CO) |
| Armãneashce Aromanian | Deutsch(DE) - German | Монгол - Mongolia | Español(EC) |
| Azərbaycanca-Azerbaijan | Deutsch(AT) | नेपाली - Nepali | Español(MX) |
| Български - Bulgarian | Deutsch(CH) | Norsk (bokmål) | Español(NI) |
| বাংলা - Bengali | Ελληνικά - Greek | Norsk (nynorsk) Norwegian | Español(PE) |
| Català - Catalan | ગુજરાતી - Gujarati | SesothosaLeboa - Zulu | Español(PR) |
| Hrvatski - Serbo-Croatian | Hebrew - עברית | Occitan | Español(UY) |
| Česky - Czech | हिन्दी - Hindi | ଓଡ଼ିଆ - Odia | Svenska - Swedish |
| Dansk - Danish | Magyar - Hungarian | Kiswahili - East Africa | Polski - Polish |
| English(US) | Bahasa - Indonesian | Português(PT) | தமிழ் |
| English(AU) | Setswana- Tswana Africa | Português(BR) | Interlingua - Irish |
| English(CA) | Gaeilge - Irish | ਪੰਜਾਬੀ - Punjabi | Türk - Turkish |
| English(NZ) | Íslenska - Icelandic | QhichwaSimi - East Africa | Xitsonga - Swahili |
| English(UK) | Українська - Ukrainian | Rumantsch | Italiano - Italian |
| English(ZA) | Kinyarwanda | Română - Romanian | O'zbek - Turkish |
| Esperanto | 한국어 - Korean | Русский - Russian | Tshivenḓa |
| Eesti - Estonia | Latina - Latina | Gàidhlig - Scottish | TiếngViệt - Vietnamese |
| Føroyskt - Denmark | isiXhosa – Xhosa SA | Srpski - Bosnian | Lietuvių - Lithuanian |
| ارسPersian | Māori - New Zealand | Slovenčina - Slovenian | isiZulu" - Zulu |
Add words to the dictionary
You can add new words to the dictionary so that the spell check does not count them as errors.
To add words to the dictionary,
- Go to Tools > Personal Dictionary.
- Type in the new word in the Add new word field and click Add. The word will be added to your dictionary.
Domain Specific Dictionary
To prevent flagging of domain-specific terms as spelling errors, you can enable specialized dictionaries such as medical or legal dictionaries in Zoho Writer. This ensures accurate recognition for words that may not be included in the default dictionary. If you're editing documents containing medical or legal terminologies, enabling a medical or legal dictionary is essential to prevent the spell checker from marking these terms as incorrect.
Available dictionaries
- Default
- Medical
- Legal
How to enable domain specific dictionaries?
- Go to Tools > Spell Check > Spelling errors.
- Enable your desired dictionary (e.g., Legal).
Use the Thesaurus
The thesaurus helps you find and replace words with synonyms or other related words. To use the thesaurus,
- Select the word or place the cursor at the start of the word or manually enter any word in the search tab and click Look Up to find alternate words.
- Go to Tools > Thesaurus.
- A window will appear showing the selected word, synonyms, and other related words.
- To replace the word with one of its synonyms, select the synonym and click Replace.
Troubleshooting Tips
Problem 1 : My Spell Check is not working for my document
Solution : First check to see if the language is supported in Writer.
Select Thesaurus in the Tools tab.
Under Proofing, click Spell Check. Click Language. A list of languages will appear. If your language is not in the supported list, write to us at support@zohowriter.com with the language to be supported. If you're from EU region, contact us at: support@eu.zohowriter.com.
Problem 2 : How do I fix all occurrences of a misspelled word in Zoho Writer?
Solution
- Click the misspelled word.
- In the suggestion popup, 'hover' the appropriate suggestion word.
- click the THREE DOTS(...) nearby the appropriate suggestion.
- Now, click 'Change All; option in the menu.