Checking Your Spelling To check spelling in a portion of a document , select the text to check. Otherwise, Word will check the entire document starting at the location of the cursor. If you want to start checking at the beginning of the document, move the insertion point to the start of the document by pressing CTRL+ HOME. Then: Select Tools, Spelling and Grammar;    OR Press the key    OR Click the Spelling and Grammar button on the Toolbar. When Word locates a word in the document that is not in the dictionary (misspelled) it displays the word and its surrounding text in the Not In the Dictionary box with the word highlighted in red. Suggested replacements for the word appear in the Suggestions box. (If it has no suggestions, this box will say no suggestions). To use one of the suggested replacements, highlight the desired replacement word in the Suggestions box and Select Change. To correct the word manually, edit it in the Not in Dictionary box and select Change. To replace all instances of the word in the document with either the manual corrections you made or the word selected from the Suggestions box, select Change All. To ignore the instances of the word, select Ignore. To ignore this and all other instances of the word in the document, select Ignore All. To add the word to the dictionary, select Add. Repeat as needed until the entire document has been checked. The application will display a message letting you know when spelling has been completed. Or select cancel, to end spelling early.