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Create your own autocorrect entries

Create your own autocorrect entries - Microsoft Word Tutorial

From the course: Word 2024 Essential Training

Create your own autocorrect entries

- [Instructor] In the last video, I was telling you how Word can automatically fix spelling errors while you're typing them, and I wanted to show you that right now. Let's start by typing a word wrong on purpose. Now watch what happens when I hit the space bar. It's going to automatically fix it for me, so fast, if you blink, you'd miss it. It will do this with other commonly misspelled words like the. Word can also automatically capitalize a word while you're typing if it's the first word in the sentence. Now hit the space bar, and it's capitalized it. Now 99% of the time, that's a great feature, but what about that 1% when you don't want this to happen? For example, what if my brand was all lowercase letters? This would completely mess that up. You can undo that. If I hover my mouse over this, see how there's a small blue line underneath the N? If I hover my mouse again, I can see that I have some autocorrect options, and if I click on that, I have the option to either undo…

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