Word 2016 Why Does Word Do That? Using Auto Features

Lesson 1 – Using AutoCorrect

Word 2016

S ETTING A UTO C ORRECT O PTIONS  D ISCUSSION

AutoCorrect automatically corrects misspelled or mistyped words as you type. For example, if you inadvertently type teh instead of the , Word automatically makes the correction. Word comes with a predefined list of commonly misspelled or mistyped words.

Word provides several AutoCorrect options that can be enabled or disabled. For instance, you can enable or disable automatically correcting two consecutive capital letters (such as GReat to Great ) or the accidentally enabling the [Caps Lock] key, as well as the automatically capitalizing the first letter in a sentence and the days of the week.

AutoCorrect cannot make the corrections immediately, because it needs to sense what you are typing before it can make a change. As soon as you press the [Spacebar] key or type punctuation, AutoCorrect attempts to make the correction.

In some situations, you do not want AutoCorrect to correct text. In these cases, disable the applicable option, or use the AutoCorrect Options list to reverse the AutoCorrect correction or to automatically stop correcting the entry.

AutoCorrect dialog box

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