What is “AutoCorrect”?

With “AutoCorrect” we can check for typographical errors and insert symbols and pieces of text.
For example, instead of typing ‘course’, you always type ‘cousre’. Then, “PowerPoint” automatically changes the word to course, when you type the word ‘cousre’.
As a second example, when we type (c) , ” PowerPoint” will replace it with ©.
“AutoCorrect” can also place a capital letter at the beginning of each sentence.

All these “AutoCorrect” entries are listed. If this list does not contain the required corrections, you can easily add your own “AutoCorrect” entries.

We find this list in the “Power Point Options” dialog box.
Just click the “Office” button, at the top left of the screen and click the “PowerPoint Options” button.
Select the “Proofing” tab.

Click the “AutoCorrect Options …”
This opens the “AutoCorrect” dialog:

The “AutoCorrect” tab is selected.
All options are selected by default.
All these seem quite clear to me, so this needs no further explanation.
Maybe this one option, “Automatic suggestions from the spelling checker” needs explanation.
This means that the same “AutoCorrect” “dictionary” used the by spell check program, is the same for all “Microsoft” applications.

Each of these options can be disabled by clicking on it.
We can also enter exceptions for these options. We will learn more about this, later.

Manual input and removal of Auto Corrections.

While a lot of words are in the standard list of misspelled words, we can also add them manually.
To do this, open the “AutoCorrect” dialog box by clicking the “Office” button, selecting the “Proofing” tab and clicking on “AutoCorrect Options”.
In the “Fill” dialog box, we have two boxes.
In the left box, we enter the word that is mispelled often, and in the right box, we enter the word that the word in the left box must be replaced with.

Click the “Add” button when you’re done.
The word is now added to the list.
Click OK.
Click OK again.
The next time when you mispell the word, it will automatically be corrected as soon as the spacebar or Enter key is pressed on your keyboard.

To remove “AutoCorrections” from our list, click the “Office” Button, select “Proofing” tab and click the “AutoCorrect Options”.
Select the “AutoCorrect” entry from the list, and click the “Delete” button.

Making Corrections with the help of “Auto Spell Check”

A second way to specify auto corrections is by performing a spell check.
To do this, select the “Review” tab in the “Ribbon” and click on “Spelling”.

This opens the “Spelling” dialog box and shows the first misspelt word in our presentation.
In the box below, “PowerPoint” gives us a suggestion, or some suggestions, which we can choose to replace the misspelt word with.

By clicking on “AutoCorrect” we can add the word to our list and this word changes in our document.

If we click on the “Add to Dictionary” button, the word would be added to our list but, this would not change our document.

So, once you have clicked a button, “PowerPoint” will look for the next misspelled word in your document.

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