How do I turn off the spell checker?

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Woligi May 17, 2015 @ 5:19am

I see red underlines everywhere when using the Steam Client.

When typing a word that doesn't exist in the English language, Steam shows that it's wrong.
I haven't seen any spell checking option in the settings and I don't know how to turn it off.

It's only in the Steam client.
Spell-check is turned off in the Windows settings, as well as the Google Chrome settings.
I only see this happen in the Steam client.

Screenshot: imgur.com/7MjL1cs.png

Please help!

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wuddih May 17, 2015 @ 5:29am

they brought it in with one of the latest updates, will get fixed sometime.

Woligi May 17, 2015 @ 5:30am

Originally posted by wuddih:
they brought it in with one of the latest updates, will get fixed sometime.

When was the latest update?
Is there any way to turn it off?

Woligi May 17, 2015 @ 6:25am

Originally posted by SLeepy Li' C-ew C-ew:
Originally posted by PapiDimmi:
When was the latest update?
Is there any way to turn it off?
You can check through your steam client on news > steam client > updates for more information.

I've looked through the recent updates, and I cannot find anything about spell-check.

wuddih May 17, 2015 @ 6:45am

Originally posted by PapiDimmi:
Originally posted by wuddih:
they brought it in with one of the latest updates, will get fixed sometime.
When was the latest update?
Is there any way to turn it off?

http://store.steampowered.com/news/16801/
no there is no way.

Originally posted by PapiDimmi:
I've looked through the recent updates, and I cannot find anything about spell-check.

"Updated the web control to CEF version 41.0.2272.104"
CEF = chromium embedded framework. steam uses chromium for browsing stuff, chromium is also used by google chrome for example, but both are totally independant and modified for their needs.

they probably just forgot to disable the spellchecking while updating the framework.

Last edited by wuddih; May 17, 2015 @ 6:48am

_I_ May 22, 2015 @ 1:35am

anyway to turn this off yet?
its annoying

Woligi May 22, 2015 @ 2:02am

Originally posted by _I_:
anyway to turn this off yet?
its annoying

Afraid not, but I do agree with you. It is very annoying.

Last edited by Woligi; May 22, 2015 @ 2:02am

Woligi May 28, 2015 @ 12:25pm

Originally posted by blaa:
It even "corrects" stuff that isn´t wrong. Stuff that ends on "´ve".
Please let us turn it off ~_~

It doesn't correct anything for me.

Plus, there's no words that ends with "´ve." There's even no words that has ´ in them.
I guess you meant an apostrophe.

Artemis3 May 31, 2015 @ 4:16pm

Mine is set to a different language (probably the system LANG) and almost everything i type with english words has red underscoring

Woligi May 31, 2015 @ 4:39pm

Originally posted by Artemis3:
Mine is set to a different language (probably the system LANG) and almost everything i type with english words has red underscoring :witch:

Change the system language, possibly?
Anyway, I hope Valve fixes this soon...

Logitech C922 Pro Jan 17, 2019 @ 8:26pm

I have the same problem and it is kind of inconvenient

Last edited by Logitech C922 Pro; Feb 16, 2020 @ 9:10am

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cSg|mc-Hotsauce Jan 17, 2019 @ 10:17pm

Originally posted by Elfezen:
I have exactly the same probleem and there is no way to fix it, come on what is going on here

They added it again.

Join... https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/1744483505465643428/

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Darkdiver Mar 13, 2019 @ 5:50am

Originally posted by Artemis3:
Mine is set to a different language (probably the system LANG) and almost everything i type with english words has red underscoring :witch:

I got this exact problem too, very annoying, did you find a fix to this?

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R543 May 4, 2019 @ 3:44pm

Originally posted by Phantorang:
Originally posted by Artemis3:
Mine is set to a different language (probably the system LANG) and almost everything i type with english words has red underscoring :witch:

I got this exact problem too, very annoying, did you find a fix to this?

Me Three, looks like they added this again for some reason or forgot to remove it?
Either way, making something OS Language based with no way to change it is always a bad design decision.

Last edited by R543; May 4, 2019 @ 3:46pm

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Mailer May 4, 2019 @ 4:20pm

color - Wrong
colour - Correct

Makes perfect sense; the system seems to favour/favor the Canadian and British spellings before the American ones, which is a bit of a surprise*.
Though I do sort of want there to be a spell checker to some extent that would at least try to resolve when people end up anti-capitalizing words like "tHIS"; It should be fairly obvious that they were actually wanting to write "This" instead, in almost every situation; as long as it doesn't forcibly change anything. Just give the author a discreet heads up instead and that'll be enough.

While things like these *should* be possible to program and distinguish out, especially since it's something that Microsoft Word has accomplished already, not every theoretical spelling-filter is. But they should probably make up their mind about leaving the system in or not.

* https://imgur.com/a/e4m85qJ

Last edited by Mailer; May 4, 2019 @ 4:24pm

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zZzooey.exe May 4, 2019 @ 4:52pm

Originally posted by R543:
Originally posted by Phantorang:

I got this exact problem too, very annoying, did you find a fix to this?
Me Three, looks like they added this again for some reason or forgot to remove it?
Either way, making something OS Language based with no way to change it is always a bad design decision.

i saw alot of sucessful advices about editing some steam files in notepad to get rid of spellchecking, did you try searching through this forum?

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