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When tasked with disabling spell check for IB exams we ran into the same problems as everybody else. The Microsoft Office Word 2007 admin templates can disable auto correct but this can be turned back on via word options (Students could still press F7 to check spelling) which was kind of pointless. My approach was to leverage the admin templates ability to disable items in the user interface (removing spell check altogether). Here is what I did. I started by disabling autocorrect and other unwanted features. Microsoft Office Word 2007 > Word Options > Proofing Then I removed these items from the UI Microsoft Office Word 2007 > Disable Items from User Interface > Custom > Disable Commands Control Name |Policy ID Spelling |2 Grammar |329 SetLanguage |790 SpellingRecheckDocument |2349 GrammarSettingsDialog |2469 SpellingAndGrammar |2566 ProofingOptions |2788 SpellingHideErrors |3217 GrammarHideErrors |3218 Dictionary |3219 TranslationPane |6111 ResearchPane |7343 ReadingViewResearchPane |7387 Thesaurus |9056 (greys out Word Options)* |11323 TranslationToolTip |12842 EnglishWritingAssistant |14453 SpellingMenu |15780 *This does not show in the referenced document. More information about this can be found here: Disable user interface items and shortcut keys Now we need to disable to the keyboard shortcuts Microsoft Office Word 2007 > Disable Items from User Interface > Custom > Disable shortcut keys F7 | 118 Shift + F7 | 118,16 Ctrl + Shift + o | 79,12 Alt – T | 254 Keys can be found here: Virtual-Key Codes (Windows) Hope this helps.