1.9. SPELLING AND GRAMMAR CHECKING-MICROSOFT WORD AUTOCORRECT


One interesting option is AutoCorrect. Click the button at the top of the Proofing dialogue box that says AutoCorrect Options. You'll see this dialogue box:


On the AutoCorrect tab, you can see a lot of inbuilt options have been checked. So, Word will, for example, automatically capitalize days of the weeks for you as soon as you press the space bar on your keyboard.

The area at the bottom, "Replace text as you type", has also been checked. What this means is that if you were to type a colon followed by a left round bracket Word will change the two characters into a smiley face. If you don't want Word doing this, select that option from the list. Then click the Delete button.

However, you can use the Replace feature to your advantage. If, for example, you didn't want to keep typing your full name all the time, you can type say two characters into the Replace box. In the With box, type your name, as in the image below:

After you click the Add button, your text will be added to the list:



Click the OK buttons on the AutoCorrect dialogue box, and on the Word Options dialogue box and you'll be returned to Word. Now, whenever we type the initials "KC" and then press the space bar on the keyboard, Word will replace them with the name "Ken Carney".


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