This article lists the availability of the spelling, grammar, and writing style options (refinements) in Microsoft Editor. Learn how to get more from Editor with Microsoft 365.

Note: For information on grammar and style settings for earlier versions of Office, see Select grammar and writing style options in Office.

Not all languages have the same sets of refinements. For details about the grammar and refinement settings available for a language, follow the link to download a Word document.

Languages marked with an asterisk (*) include context-sensitive spell checking. Japanese writing refinements and Hebrew grammar and writing refinements (**) are not yet available in the desktop Word app.

Language

Spell check

Grammar check

Writing refinements

Afrikaans

Albanian

ArabicDownload details

Armenian

Assamese

Azerbaijani - (Latin)

Bangla (Bengali India)

Bangla (Bangladesh)

Basque (Basque)

Bosnian - (Latin)

Bulgarian

Catalan

Chinese (Simplified)Download details

Chinese (Traditional)Download details

Croatian

CzechDownload details

DanishDownload details

DutchDownload details

English *Download details

Estonian

FinnishDownload details

French *Download details

Galician

Georgian

German *Download details

Greek

Gujarati

Hausa - Latin script

HebrewDownload details

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Hindi

HungarianDownload details

Icelandic

Igbo

Indonesian

Irish Gaelic

isiXhosa

isiZulu

Italian *Download details

Japanese

● **

Kannada

Kazakh

Kinyarwanda

Kiswahili

Konkani

KoreanDownload details

Kyrgyz

Latvian

Lithuanian

Luxembourgish

Macedonian (North Macedonia)

Malay (Brunei)

Malay (Latin)

Malayalam

Maltese

Maori

Marathi

Nepali

Norwegian (Bokmål)Download details

Norwegian (Nynorsk)

Odia

Pashto

Persian (Farsi)

PolishDownload details

Portuguese (Brazil) *Download details

Portuguese (Portugal)Download details

Punjabi (Gurmukhi)

Romanian

Romansh

RussianDownload details

Scottish Gaelic

Serbian - (Cyrillic, Serbia)

Serbian - (Latin, Serbia)

Sesotho sa Leboa

Setswana

Sinhala

Slovak

Slovenian

SpanishDownload details

SwedishDownload details

Tamil

Tatar (Cyrillic)

Telugu

Thai

TurkishDownload details

Ukrainian

Urdu

Uzbek - (Latin)

Valencian

Vietnamese

Welsh

Wolof

Yoruba

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