• Save time with AutoCorrect!

    OFFICE

    Mary Branscombe

    By Mary Branscombe

    You can make AutoCorrect more useful by adding your own corrections and copying those to wherever you need them.

    Whenever you mistype one of several dozen commonly misspelled words while using Word and other Office apps (and even the Office Web apps), Office automatically corrects your spelling.

    Fortunately, AutoCorrect is a lot less aggressive than in the early days of Word, when a major investment bank famously found itself referred to in correspondence as “Goddamn Sachs.” And unlike smartphones, where you must rely upon spotting and then reversing embarrassing automatic text corrections before you send the message, Office gives you complete control over what gets corrected.

    Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.10.0, 2024-03-04).