{"id":8719,"date":"2017-01-10T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T08:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=8719"},"modified":"2017-01-07T13:14:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T21:14:25","slug":"word-2016-update-right-click-spell-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=8719","title":{"rendered":"Word 2016 Update: Right-Click Spell Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft updates its Office suite every so often. You may see the Office Update request appear &mdash; or not. I have the Office 365 subscription, so I&#8217;m guessing that my software might get updated more frequently than an off-the-shelf Office purchase. In any event, I noticed a change recently to how Word impliments the document proofing check.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe change is shown in Figure 1. On the left you see how proofing worked before, as documented in my <em>Word 2016 For Dummies<\/em> book. On the right you see the current implementation, which is different &mdash; and better.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8720\" style=\"width: 653px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/word-figure-7-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"643\" height=\"231\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/word-figure-7-1.png 643w, https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/word-figure-7-1-300x108.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8720\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 1. A side-by-side comparison of Figure 7-1 from <em>Word 2016 For Dummies<\/em>, before and after the update.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Rather than just list replacement words, the new right-click proofing menu shows a Spelling submenu. It pops up automatically, listing not only the suggested replacement words but a brief definition below each word.<\/p>\n<p>Further, each word on the submenu features a submenu, illustrated in Figure 2. And on that sub-submenu, you&#8217;ll find the long-lost Add to AutoCorrect command. Yee-haw!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8752\" style=\"width: 364px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8752\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/0110-figure2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"354\" height=\"156\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/0110-figure2.png 354w, https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/0110-figure2-300x132.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8752\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 2. Yes, there it is: The Add to AutoCorrect command.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Just about a year ago, I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=8123\">wrote a post<\/a> about how to fake adding AutoCorrect entries. That&#8217;s because a reader really missed the command and wanted a substitute. She was frustrated! And, I agree: Microsoft was dumb to evict the old AutoCorrect command from the proofing submenu back in Word 2010. Now it&#8217;s returned!<\/p>\n<p>Not only is AutoCorrect resurrected, but the right-click proofing menu offers a rich selection of document reference and grammar commands. It&#8217;s a good update, not worthy of a new version, but I&#8217;m happy to see it. I just hope that the update applies to all incarnations of Word 2016 and not just for Office 365 subscribers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was afraid that they&#8217;d sneak in some incremental updates between book releases. And they did!<\/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-8719","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\/8719","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=8719"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8758,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8719\/revisions\/8758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}