Where has autocorrect gone in Word 365?

Anonymous
2013-07-09T23:23:33+00:00

Presumably through an oversight, Microsoft has very annoyingly dropped autocorrect from the right click menu on spelling errors. Does anyone know how to get it back? Probably not - I have researched it and found no answers. However a good work around is to add Autocorrect options to the quick access toolbar which is almost as good. Microsoft - please bring back right click autocorrect in the next version of Word/Office.

Also if you're reading this, please also reduce the spaces between icons in the QAT - it is annoying that I can't fit as many on one page width as I could in 2010. Sad that it is not nearly as good as the 2003 QAT on which you could fit as many rows as you wanted!

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  1. Stefan Blom 353.5K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2017-08-15T12:38:41+00:00

    Umm ... Go File -> Options -> Proofing -> AutoCorrect Options, and it's there, looking just like it always did.

    Note that the original question is about losing the option (in Word 2016/365) on the right-click menu to create AutoCorrect entries which "fix" spelling errors. A similar option has now been restored in the new Editor (spelling and grammar check) right-click options in Word as part of Office 365.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-08-15T11:39:45+00:00

    Umm ... Go File -> Options -> Proofing -> AutoCorrect Options, and it's there, looking just like it always did.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-08-14T23:32:33+00:00

    Microsoft has now restored the Autocorrect option in the right click spell check menu in Word and Outlook 2016/365. You just have to click the arrow beside the correction you want. Problem solved!

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-08-07T00:25:38+00:00

    Well done Mcduck - I hadn't worked out the trick of clicking on the right arrow in the middle pane.

    Greg: Only a suggestion - in your next version, maybe the autocorrect option could be added to the left pane. I can't believe that Microsoft is so hopeless, putting useless things in the left pane. Nothing in it has any relevance to the mis-spelled word.

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  5. Anonymous
    2017-08-06T17:51:49+00:00

    IT WORKS for my Office 365 ProPlus. Once you have the template in the right folder [[C:\Users*UserName*\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP]], restart MS Word. When you have a misspelling, you have to LEFT-click on the exact word, then RIGHT-click on the arrow next to the correct spelling. You'll see the option to add it to the list of autocorrect databank and that's it. Such a useful trick! Sometimes, I type fast and there are words that I consistently mispel and this is really saving me time and frustration. LOL!!

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