Re-setting Spell-check and Grammar-check in an existing MSWord document (when you have already done spell-check and need to discard all those "accept/ignore")

 The text for this can be found at https://smallbusiness.chron.com/reset-microsoft-words-spelling-grammar-check-75554.html

The text from that article is just below.

An image I have created may be more helpful for visual learners (like me!)

How to Reset Microsoft Word's Spelling & Grammar Check

ByRandall Blackburn

(this is a few bits from that article, which taught me how to do this, and I then created the image above)

If you have accumulated a collection of misspelled words in the Microsoft Word Spelling and Grammar Check custom dictionary, you can create a new dictionary to reset the check features and start a new custom dictionary from scratch, and then set the new dictionary as the default using the Custom Dictionaries settings tool. You can also reset the spelling and grammar checker to recheck a single document. (we are focusing on this last sentence here)

Reset for Single Document

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Open a document in Word and enable Spelling and Grammar check on the document by clicking “Review” in the top navigation ribbon, and then clicking the “Spelling & Grammar” tab. Change or ignore misspelled words, as desired, when the Spelling dialog box displays a suspected misspelling. Spell check the entire document.

2

Click the “File” option, and then click “Options” once the spell checker has reached the end of the document.

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Click the “Proofing” option, and then click the “Recheck Document” option. A warning message displays indicating that the operation resets the spelling and grammar checker so that Word will recheck words you previously checked.

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Click “Yes” to continue, and then click “OK” to close the Word Options box. Spell check rechecks the document.