How to Check Spelling in Google SpreadSheets: New Google Docs Feature

Google Spreadsheets is a free web based service to create and share various spreadsheets online. It is very simple to track budgets, run different financial calculations and monitor accounts related information using Google Spreadsheets. Now, Google is offering spell checking facility in this useful application. Correct spelling is an essential part of good documentation. Now, this facility is available at your hand.

Unfortunately, unlike Google’s word processor, it doesn’t search for misspellings automatically. You have to do it manually.

Click on the cell of your spreadsheet from where you’ll like to start searching. Go to Tools > Check spelling.

The tool will go through all the cells on your spreadsheet and highlight the cell containing a misspelled word in red.

Click on the misspelled word to see suggested spellings and select the correct one. To keep the word as it is, select the last suggestion at the bottom of the list which is your original spelling.

Click “Next” to check rest of the cells. Click “Move to next sheet”, in case you have more than one sheet. When you’re done, click the “Close” button or the “X” button.

You can’t add any word to the dictionary right now. But, we hope Google to start that facility very soon.