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I need to disable spell check in Google Chrome on our terminal servers. I have setup the group policies but the only setting I can find is for SpellCheckServiceEnabled which isn't the spell check, its just whether the spell check can search the net.

I haven't been able to find a registry setting, or a config file to update either. Also no command line options.

Has anyone been able to turn off spell check in chrome with group policy?

Thanks

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There are group policy settings now available to control this feature:- In "Google" -> "Google Chrome" there are now 2 entries- "Enable or disable spell checking web service" "Setting the policy to Enabled puts a Google web service in use to help resolve spelling errors. This policy only controls the use of the online service. Setting the policy to Disabled means this service is never used. Leaving the policy unset lets users choose whether to use the spellcheck service. The spell check can always use a downloaded dictionary locally unless the feature is disabled by SpellcheckEnabled in which case this policy will have no effect."

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"Enable Spellcheck" "Setting the policy to Enabled turns spellcheck on, and users can't turn it off. On Microsoft® Windows®, Google Chrome OS and Linux®, spellcheck languages can be switched on or off individually, so users can still turn spellcheck off by switching off every spellcheck language. To avoid that, use the SpellcheckLanguage to force-enable specific spellcheck languages. Setting the policy to Disabled turns off spellcheck from all sources, and users can't turn it on. The SpellCheckServiceEnabled, SpellcheckLanguage and SpellcheckLanguageBlocklist policies have no effect when this policy is set to False. Leaving the policy unset lets users turn spellcheck on or off in the language settings."

There are other settings related to languages as well but as it says, they are enabled/disabled by these settings.

I hope you find this useful. George S

PS: Now to find the same settings for Microsoft Edge.

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Currently it's not possible to turn off spell check in Chrome with group policy.

However after asking a bunch more questions on why they wanted it turned off: there is an Intranet Web application that they are developing and spell check keeps underlining peoples names and addresses in the forms. So researching on that criteria I found a way to do this with HTML. Just need to add spellcheck=false to the input tags you need to turn it off for.

<input type="text" size="50" spellcheck="false">

(I'm not going to mark this as the answer because its not actually turning off spell check with group policy.)

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