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• Save time with AutoCorrect!

  Posted on March 4, 2024 at 02:43 CST by Mary Branscombe • Comment in the Forums

  OFFICE

  

  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).

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• Win10 update breaks a USB modem?

  Posted on March 30, 2020 at 01:10 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  LANGALIST

  By Fred Langa

  Networking issues can be daunting, but with a little prep work and Win10’s built-in, one-click Network reset option, you can usually get things going again.

  Here’s what to do, step by step, to help ensure a successful repair of this and many similar networking problems.

  Plus: MS Office won’t let a user type the word “you”!

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.12.0 (2020-03-30).

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