How to Turn off Suggestions on Google Docs?

February 15, 2022

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In this tutorial, we will show you how to turn off suggestions on Google Docs. We recommend you study this manual carefully and start practicing.

Checklist of crucial points we aim to highlight here:

Disabling Grammar & Spelling Suggestions
Disabling Spelling Autocorrections
Running a Spell Check

As you know, Google Docs automatically corrects misspellings and offers suggestions for spelling and grammar. In full, it does this for English, Spanish, French, and a few other languages. Mostly, this is a greatly useful tool. But sometimes, all it does is just annoy you. And exactly for this reason (when you don`t need this option), we will show you how to disable it all.

Watch the video from https://thegoodocs.com/ and find out how to disable the spelling and grammar suggestions and the autocorrections in Google Docs:

Disabling Grammar & Spelling Suggestions

To turn off grammar and spelling suggestions in the document, click on the “Tools” item on the toolbar at the top of the page. Drag the mouse to “Spelling and grammar”. And on the right, select either “Show spelling suggestions” or “Show grammar suggestions”. If you want to turn off both, you need to return to this menu and press on the second item

Disabling Spelling Autocorrections

Now, concerning disabling the spelling autocorrections, go to the “Tools” item on the toolbar on top of the page, and this time, go down and select “Preferences”

Now, in this menu, as you can see, we disable automatic word capitalizing, but most importantly, a bit lower, there is the autocorrection of spelling that we disable by unchecking the box left to it. And we press OK

NB! You can carefully look at the options in the “Preferences” menu and choose the one(s) you need or don`t need for your particular task.

Running a Spell Check

And you can also run a spell check if you want to correct all the misspellings and grammar mistakes manually.

For that, go to “Tools”, then “Spelling and grammar”, and click on the first line here — “Spelling and grammar check”

Now, there is a new dialog box here on the right, which highlights the mistakes on the document one by one, top to bottom

Here, in the screenshot below, it found the first mistake and highlighted this mistake for us

And here, it suggests the correction (you can see the sample in the screenshot below)

Now you either accept it by clicking on the box with the correction or by pressing on “Accept” here

Or you can ignore it with the “Ignore” button

And if you click on the button with three dots here, next to “Accept”, you will get to the extra menu, where you can accept or ignore all the corrections for the whole document at once

We hope this tutorial will help you learn how to turn off suggestions on Google Docs. Good luck!

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