{"id":8123,"date":"2016-03-02T00:01:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T08:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=8123"},"modified":"2016-02-27T11:18:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T19:18:38","slug":"build-your-own-autocorrect-entries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=8123","title":{"rendered":"Build Your Own AutoCorrect Entries"},"content":{"rendered":"

The AutoCorrect shortcut was gracelessly dropped from Word version 2010. Two workarounds are available, though they’re just not the same.
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\nAs a reminder, way back when (in earlier versions of Word), you could fix a spelling error by right-clicking on the word and choosing a proper word from the AutoCorrect list. For example, you right-click the word teh<\/em> (which is already an AutoCorrect entry) and you direct Word to automatically replace it with the word the<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Word features a slate of AutoCorrect entries, but the AutoCorrect command allowed you to quickly create your own. That shortcut is missing from Word versions 2010 onward.<\/p>\n

One option instead of AutoCorrect is to add an improperly-flagged word to the dictionary. For example, if you live on Pilchuck Avenue, you can right-click the word Pilchuck<\/em> and choose the Add command. The word is inserted into your personal dictionary and won’t be flagged as misspelled again.<\/p>\n

Adding a word to the dictionary, however, doesn’t automatically fix words that you mistype.<\/p>\n

For example, say you type lod<\/em> instead of old<\/em>. Adding lod<\/em> to the dictionary doesn’t fix that typo; it merely tells the spell-checker to ignore the word. That’s not what you want. No, you want to type l-o-d<\/strong> and have Word automatically correct it to o-l-d<\/strong> for you. That’s AutoCorrect.<\/p>\n

Because you can’t right-click lod<\/em> any longer, you must create a manual AutoCorrect entry:<\/p>\n

1. Click the File tab and choose Options.
\n2. Choose Proofing from the left side of the Word Options dialog box.
\n3. Click the AutoCorrect Options button.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The AutoCorrect dialog box appears, with the AutoCorrect tab forward, shown in Figure 1.<\/p>\n

\"Figure

Figure 1. Manually adding an AutoCorrect entry.<\/p><\/div>\n

4. Click the Replace text box and type the word you want to correct automatically, such as lod<\/em>.
\n5. Click the With box and type the replacement word, such as old<\/em>.
\n6. Click the Add button to create the new AutoCorrect entry.
\n7. Repeat Steps 4 through 6 for each word you want to add.
\n8. Click the OK button when you’re done adding AutoCorrect entries, then click OK to close the Word Options dialog box.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes, these steps are a pain. They remove the automatic aspect of AutoCorrect, requiring you to remember which words you want corrected as well as adding them to the list yourself.<\/p>\n

For more text-inserting tricks in Microsoft Word, see my 2013 post on AutoText here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Word lacks the good old AutoText feature, but you can weasel your way around it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-8123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","tag-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8123"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8135,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8123\/revisions\/8135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}