Browsers and Mail Enable or Disable Grammar and Spellcheck Assistance in Microsoft Edge

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable grammar and spellcheck assistance in Microsoft Edge for your account or all users in Windows 10 and Windows 11.

Microsoft Edge has a built-in spellcheck feature that you can choose to use Microsoft Editor or Basic with.

When Microsoft Editor is selected, Microsoft Edge sends your typed text to a Microsoft cloud service that processes the text to detect spelling and grammar errors. Typed text data sent for spelling and grammar check is not stored and is deleted after processing. Editor provides enhanced grammar, spelling, and style suggestions to help you write confidently across the web. Editor in Microsoft Edge runs in textboxes where spellcheck isn't already supported by websites.

If you select Basic, Microsoft Edge will perform only local spellchecking on the device, and no data will be sent to Microsoft cloud for spellchecking services.

When Enable grammar and spellcheck assistance is turned on in Edge, typed words with issues (ex: misspelled) will have a red squiggly line under them to indicate so. You can then right click on these words with the red squiggly line under them for available spelling suggestions and options.

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EXAMPLE: "Enable grammar and spellcheck assistance" turned on with Microsoft Editor or Basic









1 Open Microsoft Edge.

2 Click/tap on the Settings and more (3 dots) button, and click/tap on Settings. (see screenshot below)


3 Click/tap on Languagrs in the left pane. (see screenshots below)

If you do not see a left pane, then either click/tap on the 3 bars menu button towards the top left OR widen the horizontal borders of the Microsoft Edge window until you do.

4 Do step 5 (on) or step 6 (off) below for what you want.

This is the default setting.

7 You can now close the Settings tab if you like.

You must be signed in as an administrator to use this option.

This option uses the SpellcheckEnabled, MicrosoftEditorProofingEnabled, and MicrosoftEditorSynonymsEnabled policies for Microsoft Edge.

1 Do step 2 (enable basic), step 3 (enable Editor with synonyms), step 4 (enable Editor without synonyms), step 5 (disable), or step 6 (default) below for what you want.

This will override and gray out Option One.

(Contents of REG file for reference)

This will override and gray out Option One.

(Contents of REG file for reference)

This will override and gray out Option One.

(Contents of REG file for reference)

This will override and gray out Option One.

(Contents of REG file for reference)

This is the default setting to allow using Option One.

(Contents of REG file for reference)

7 Save the REG file to your desktop.

8 Double click/tap on the downloaded REG file to merge it.

9 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

10 You can now delete the downloaded REG file if you like.


That's it,
Shawn Brink