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Word’s AutoCorrect feature is designed to fix your typos as they occur. You’ve probably noticed that “teh” is changed to “the” and “adn” is changed to “and.” This saves you some time when it comes to editing your document. If you are less observant, you may think you are a better typer than reality expresses - you have the folks at Microsoft to thank for that one.

AutoCorrect is also used to apply special formatting. For example (c) is changed to the copyright symbol.

Like many of Word’s features, you can customize AutoCorrect. You can use it to save some time when you’re working. You can assign abbreviations to frequently used names, phrases, and terminology. How frustrating is it to work in an insurance office and type ‘HSA’ for Health Savings Account and have word insist that you mean ‘has’. There’s a quick fix for this.

Though attempting to be helpful, sometimes, Word’s AutoCorrect feature can be a hassle if you do not want the text to be changed.

If you type something that is AutoCorrected, you can easily undo the AutoCorrect. To do this:

• Type what you want to type, and let Microsoft Word AutoCorrect it
• Press the Backspace key
• Now, what you type will be exactly the way you want it

You may want to have the AutoCorrect feature of Word make an exception for certain information that is typed in. To do this:

• Open the Tools menu.
• Click AutoCorrect.
• From the AutoCorrect tab, click Exceptions.
• From here, simply make your choice and click OK.

You can further customize AutoCorrect, follow these steps:

• From the Tools menu, select AutoCorrect Options…
• In the box labeled Replace type the abbreviation
• In the box labeled With enter the full text
• Click Add
• Click OK

You can also transfer your AutoCorrect settings between computers:

I will point you to this Microsoft Knowledge Base article to demonstrate how to transfer these settings between computers.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826147

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