How do I enable spell check in IE 11 engine rendered pages in MS Edge

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How do I enable spell check in IE 11 engine rendered pages in MS Edge

Todd Miller 41

With Windows 10 and Edge v91 installed, pages that are set to render in IE 11 mode inside of Edge do not seem to have a spell check active. On the same computers, pages that load using the native Edge chromium rendering have spell check and sites that load in real IE 11 have spell check.

Is there a needed additional step to turn on spell check in the IE 11 rendering engine built in to Edge?

Anonymous

2021-08-02T07:30:21.29+00:00

Hi @Todd Miller

How do you enable the spell check in Edge? Have you enabled spell check for the language you want in edge://settings/languages like below? You can refer to this article about how to use spell check in Edge. If you have enabled spell check correctly in Edge, it will also work in Edge IE mode.

If it still doesn't work, could you please tell us how you test the spell check and provide the steps to reproduce the issue? Thanks for your understanding.

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Anonymous

2021-08-02T07:30:21.29+00:00

Hi @Todd Miller

How do you enable the spell check in Edge? Have you enabled spell check for the language you want in edge://settings/languages like below? You can refer to this article about how to use spell check in Edge. If you have enabled spell check correctly in Edge, it will also work in Edge IE mode.

If it still doesn't work, could you please tell us how you test the spell check and provide the steps to reproduce the issue? Thanks for your understanding.

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If anyone else is experiencing the same issue I had (spell checking not working in Internet Explorer and IE mode in Edge) this is how I fixed it:

DISM.exe /online /add-capability /capabilityname:Language.Basic~~~nb-NO~0.0.1.0

You obviously have to change the "nb-NO" to your language. To get a list of available "Feature on Demand" languages you can add, run:

DISM.exe /online /get-capabilities

Even though I had previously installed a full nb-NO language pack it apparently did not include spell checking for all parts of Windows.

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