spell checker problems

Question

my spell checker is correcting for the wrong language, it is translating to english, however, my mother language is Portuguese, I already changed the language to Portuguese in the settings, I tried to put the spell checker in Portuguese, it didn't work, remembering that I have windows 8

Answer 1

The proofing language used in Word is character-level formatting. It is not a document or application setting (although those are important.

See my article Proofing Language Keeps Changing - Solutions.
A key is often to have your Windows language settings to be the same as the primary language you want to use in Word.

Answer 2

@accs

Please refer to CharlesKenyon-8472‘s reply.

If the Portuguese language pack is installed as one of Windows system language, please go to Review > Language group, Language button > Set Proofing language > Untick the box of "Detect language automatically".

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