Canva is an online design tool that you can use to create beautiful visuals.
However, if you write some text in Canva, you need to make sure that they are correct. Especially if you’re a small business owner, you know how important it is to make sure that all your content looks professional.
That’s why you must be curious to know if you can correct spellings and grammar on Canva.
In this post, I will answer 2 key questions:
- Does Canva have spell check?
- How to spell check on Canva:
In other words, how do you ensure the text you use in your Canva designs is correct?
Does Canva have spell check?
The short answer is no, unfortunately, Canva does not currently have a built-in spell check feature. You will have to depend on other ways to check your grammar and spelling while using Canva.
How to spell check on Canva
It’s a pity that Canva does not have an integrated tool to check your spellings.
Fortunately, it is not so complicated to use other tools and ways to check your text while creating your designs.
1. Check spellings with your browser
Most web browsers, including Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge, have a spell-check feature.
All you have to do is turn it on, and it will automatically alert you of wrong spellings when you are using Canva.
Let’s take the example of Google.
Make sure you are signed into your Google account, and then open the browser.
Click on the 3-dot menu on the top-right, and click on Settings.
Then go to Languages -> Basic Spell Check
You can choose which languages you want the spell-check prompt for.
This will depend on the languages you have chosen to see content in.
Since I have English, English UK, English US, and French chosen as my preferred languages, I can choose to do spell check in these 3 languages.
Now go to Canva and create a design.
Click on the word you want to check the spelling of.
If there is a thin red line below it, you will know the spelling is wrong, and you will also get a prompt to correct it.
2. Use online spell-check tools
There are many online tools that can check your spelling and grammar, such as Grammarly. You can copy and paste your text from Canva into one of these tools to check for errors.
Simply create a free account, and start using the tool to check spellings and grammar. Enter your Canva text, and Grammarly will point out the errors and fixes.
3. Use spell-check extensions
You can also use grammar tools like Grammarly as a browser extension.
You simply have to install Grammarly as an extension first.
Then, go to Canva and click on your Extension list.
Find Grammarly, click on the 3-dot money, and choose ‘This site can read and change data’ on canva.com.
And that’s it!
Now whenever you use Canva, you will get spell check suggestions by Canva, just like with Google Chrome.
4. Use Microsoft Word
Instead of copying your Canva text into an online grammar tool, you can also simply copy paste your text in MS Word.
It will show you suggestions to fix your spelling, or add to dictionary.
Pro Tip:
It doesn’t really matter whether you want to use Grammarly or MS Word for checking the spelling of your Canva text.
I prefer Grammarly as it’s more convenient for me to use an online tool, especially through an extension.
But offline tools like MS Word would work perfectly as well.
5. Use an online dictionary
Online dictionaries are really convenient to check not just meanings of words, they can be helpful to check spellings as well.
For example, you can go to the website of Merriam Webster, and enter your Canva text for spell check.
It will either show you the meaning of the word, or notify you of errors and provide suggestions to fix it.
Pro Tip:
Remember that a dictionary can help you to check your spellings only, not the sentence structure or grammar.
6. Manual check
You can spell check in Canva with all the above tools if you want to ensure that your text is written correctly.
But of course, if you have a copywriter responsible for your written content, then you won’t need any of the above tools.
Even if you don’t have a copywriter, simply ask a colleague or friend native in that language to quickly check your text.
And that’s it!
Those are the 5 ways to do spell check for all your Canva designs.
My go-to tool for checking text and spellings is Grammarly and Google Chrome. What’s yours?
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