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How to Enable and Configure Spelling Check in Wordfast

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Wordfast can check spelling using the Word spelling engine

Recently, we discussed how to check spelling in Word and memoQ. This post is devoted to Wordfast.

In Wordfast, please select Edit > Preferences. In the dialog window that appears please click Spelling on the left pane:

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The screenshot is made in somewhat obsolete version 2.3.0, but the way to configure the spell-checking is similar in the subsequent versions.

On the right pane, select Microsoft Office Spellcheck, then press OK. After that, Wordfast will check spelling with the Microsoft Word engine.

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