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This is because formulas are usually abbreviations of words, which would cause almost every cell with a formula to be underlined. There are times that spell check is very necessary though. Note: Excel will not correct grammar like Word, but it will find those misspelt words.
When your Excel spreadsheet is going to be in a presentation or handed into a professor it’s best to do a spell check on the entire workbook just incase. The shortcut to spellcheck is a simple one modifier key shortcut. With any cell selected press fn + F7: This will open the spell check dialog box.
From here you can review all spelling mistakes in the worksheet and correct them if needed. If the correction is not needed click Ignore to move on to the next incorrect word.
Click on one of the Suggestions and then Change to change the selected word to the Suggestion Click Add to add the word Excel marked as misspelt to the dictionary so it does not select the word as incorrect in the future. Ignore All will skip over every instance of the misspelt word in your worksheet. For example, if I clicked Ignore All on the dialog box above all cells with asdf would be skipped. Change All will change every instance of the misspelt word to the word chosen in the Suggestions box.