What is “AutoCorrect”?

With “AutoCorrect” we can check for typographical errors, insert symbols and pieces of text.

For example, instead of typing course, you always type corse . Then, “PowerPoint” can automatically changes the word to course, when you type the word corse.

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” entry.

We find this list in the “Options” category in the “File” tab

 

Open the “Backstage” view and click the “Options” button.
Choose the “Proofing” tab and click the “AutoCorrect Options …”.
This opens the “AutoCorrect” dialog:

If not selected, select the “AutoCorrect” tab.

All options are selected by default.

All these seem clear to me, so these need no further explanation.

 

Each of these options can be disabled by clicking on it.

We can also enter exceptions for these options, of which we will learn more 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 manually .

Open the “AutoCorrect” dialog box by clicking the “AutoCorrect Options”.

In the “Fill” dialog box, we find two boxes.

In the left box, type the word you type wrong regularly, and in the right box, type the word that the word in the left box must be replaced with.

Click the “Add” button when you’re done.

The word is added to the list.

Click OK.

And OK again.

The next time when you type the word wrong, it will automatically be corrected as soon as you press spacebar or the “Enter” key on your keyboard.

 

To remove entries from our list, open the “AutoCorrect Options” dialog again.
Select “AutoCorrect” entry from the list and click the “Delete” button.

 

Enter Corrections through Auto Spell Check

A second way to provide corrections in “AutoCorrect” is, by performing a spellcheck.

Select the “Review” tab in the “Ribbon” and click the “Spelling” button.

This opens the “Spelling” dialog and gives the first misspelled word in our presentation.

In the box below, “PowerPoint” gives us a suggestion, or some suggestions, which we can choose, to replace the misspelled word.

By clicking on the “AutoCorrect” button, we can add the word to our list and this word is included in out presentation.

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

Once you have clicked a button, “PowerPoint” will look to the next misspelled word in our document.

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