Using Autocorrect to Correct Errors as You Type

1. On the Tools menu, click AutoCorrect Options.

The following dialogue box appears.

2. Select/clear the Show AutoCorrect Options buttons check box to show/hide the AutoCorrect Options.

3. The next five checkboxes are to set the capitalization options.

4. To turn on or off the AutoCorrect entries, select or clear the Replace text as you type check box.

5. To turn on or off the spelling checker corrections, select the Replace text as you type check box followed by the Automatically use suggestions from the spelling checker check box.

Note: To select the Automatically use suggestions from the spelling checker check box, you must first turn on automatic spell checking (On the Tools menu, click Options, and on the Spelling & Grammar tab, select the Check spelling as you type check box.

Autocorrect Options Button

The button first appears as a small, blue box when you rest the mouse pointer near text that is automatically corrected, and it changes to a button icon when you point to it.

Capitalization options

AutoCorrect can capitalize the first word in a sentence, the names of days of the week, the first letter of text in a table cell, and so on.

AutoCorrect entries.

AutoCorrect can use a list of built-in corrections called AutoCorrect entries to detect and correct typos, misspelled words, and common symbols. You can easily remove unwanted entries or add your own entries.

Spelling checker corrections

For enhanced spelling correction, AutoCorrect can use corrections that are generated by the spelling checker's main dictionary. This is in addition to the built-in list of spelling corrections.