What is AutoCorrect?

With the help of AutoCorrect, we can reduce typological errors, insert symbols, and pieces of text with ease.

For example, you always type the word coruse instead of course. You can set an option in Word so that it automatically changes the word coruse to course whenever you make that particular typographical error.

A second example is, when we type the symbol (c), Word will automatically change the symbol to (c). AutoCorrect will also ensure that each sentence begins with a capital letter, if you have forgotten to do so.

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

 

We find this list in the “Options” section.

Navigate to the backstage view, and click the “Options” button.

Select the “Control” category.

Then click the “AutoCorrect Options …” button.
This opens the “AutoCorrect” dialog box:

The “AutoCorrect” tab is selected.

All options are selected, by default.

All these are quite clear, so there is no need for further explanation.

This particular option, “Automatically use suggestions from the spelling checker” has to be checked.

This means that the same AutoCorrect “Dictionary” used in the spell check program, is the same for all Microsoft applications.

 

Each of these options can be disabled by unchecking the boxes.

We can also enter exceptions for these options, but we’ll discuss that later.

 

Manual input and removal of Auto Corrections.

While a lot of words are already in the standard list of misspelled words, we can also add words manually.

To do this, first open the AutoCorrect dialog box.

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

In the box on the left, we enter the word that is regularly typed wrongly, and in the box on the right, we enter the correct 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”.

Click OK again.

The next time you typed the word wrong, it will automatically be corrected as soon as your Spacebar or Enter buttons are pressed, on your keyboard.

 

To remove Auto Corrections from our list, you need to navigate back to the “AutoCorrect Options” dialog box.
Select what you want to delete from the AutoCorrect 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 spelling check.

To do this, select the “Review” tab in the ribbon, and click the “Spelling and Grammar” button.

This opens the “Spelling and Grammar” dialog box. It displays the first wrongly spelt word in the document.

 

 

In the box below, Word gives us a suggestion, or a number of suggestions, which can be selected in order to replace the misspelled word.

By clicking on the “AutoCorrect” button, we can add the word to our list, and use this to correct the word our document.

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

Once you click a button, Word will search for the next misspelled word in our document.

 

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