But my colleague Woody Leonhard didn't get that error when he did the same thing on his Surface Pro 3.)Įven though you think you've activated Office Mobile on your tablet PC, you haven't, and thus, you can't use any of its editing controls. (Interestingly, if I did so in the new Microsoft Edge browser on a Surface tablet PC, I got an error message saying Office Online is not compatible with Edge and I should use Internet Explorer instead. But it doesn't activate Office Mobile on your PC tablet it lets you purchase an Office 365 subscription, or if you already have one, it lets you sign in to get access in your browser to Office Online. This will open up the Word Options in a new window. Verify the Check spelling as you type feature is on. Clicking the Activate button brings you to a Microsoft Office 365 website where you can sign into to Office 365. In the next section, we’ll discuss further solutions to fix the spell checker not working at all in various versions of Word. If not, it displays an alert that includes the Activate button to presumably let you use an existing Office 365 subscription.
Here's what happens: When you launch an Office Mobile app on a Windows 10 tablet PC, the app uses the Microsoft account ID with which you signed into your tablet PC and checks if you have an Office 365 account with that ID. In fact you can, as I'll explain shortly. As a result, you won't be able to use your corporate Office 365 subscription on that personal tablet PC - or so it appears. There are eight methods in total for Microsoft Office Word has stopped working and Word file recovery and repair.These approaches can also be applied to fix similar issues on other Office apps, such as Excel, PowerPoint, etc.
That's fine, except Microsoft screwed up what happens when it does that check and offers to solve a lack of detected license. These suggestions apply to Microsoft Word for Office 365, Word 2019, Word 2016, Word 2010, Word 2007, and Word for Mac.
(By contrast, the iOS and Android versions provide limited editing if you don't have a subscription.) When you launch any of these apps on your tablet PC, they check to see if you have such a license.
The Office Mobile apps for Windows 10 - Excel, PowerPoint, and Word - require an Office 365 subscription to do any editing.
Change the text to display box, or not, click OK. Highlight the text (url), select the insert tab, click link in the top center, then click insert link. But good luck trying to get it to work with a corporate Office 365 account if you're using it on a tablet associated to a personal Microsoft account. For me, pasting a url into Word, it behaves as a simple line of text (even while holding the ctrl key) until I perform the followings actions. Microsoft released the final version of its touch-savvy Office Mobile suite yesterday for Windows 10 tablet PCs.