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Enable specific spellcheck languages
Supported versions
- On Windows since 77 or later
Description
Enables different languages for spellcheck. Any language that you specify that isn't recognized is ignored.
If you enable this policy, spellcheck is enabled for the languages specified, as well as any languages the user has enabled.
If you don't configure or disable this policy, there's no change to the user's spellcheck preferences.
If the SpellcheckEnabled policy is disabled, this policy will have no effect.
If a language is included in both the 'SpellcheckLanguage' and the SpellcheckLanguageBlocklist policy, the spellcheck language is enabled.
Supported features
- Can be mandatory: Yes
- Can be recommended: No
- Dynamic Policy Refresh: Yes
- Per Profile: Yes
- Applies to a profile that is signed in with a Microsoft account: No
Data type
- List of strings
Windows information and settings
Group Policy (ADMX) info
- GP unique name: SpellcheckLanguage
- GP name: Enable specific spellcheck languages
- GP path (Mandatory): Administrative Templates/Microsoft Edge
- GP path (Recommended): N/A
- GP ADMX file name: MSEdge.admx
Example value
fr
es
Registry settings
- Path (Mandatory): SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\SpellcheckLanguage
- Path (Recommended): N/A
- Value name: 1, 2, 3, ...
- Value type: List of REG_SZ
Example registry value
SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\SpellcheckLanguage\1 =
fr
SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\SpellcheckLanguage\2 =
es