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. Anonymous
    2013-11-21T00:03:23+00:00

    Hi Greg - the concept looks good, though wouldn't work in my Word 365.  Maybe I am missing something, but when I ran the <Add AutoCorrect to Word 2013 Spelling Shortcut Menu.dotm> file, it opened a window similar to that below but did not give me AC options when I right-clicked gooood.

    Sorry my screenshots did not survive - will email.

    So I am sticking with my AC button on the quick access toolbar, which gives the ability to add words as shown below, though you have to type them. In general, this is not much of a penalty. However it would be useful to be able to bring them across to a new machine. It is not clear how to do this or where they are stored - maybe in Normal.dotm, in which case transfer would be easy. If they are stored elsewhere, it would be useful to know so they can be backed up. Any ideas Greg? Thanks Jon

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-11-20T20:48:53+00:00

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-11-20T19:46:08+00:00

    Too bad, I got similar problems with Ms Words 365. The only thing I can appreciate is its cloud storage, the Skydrive.

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  4. Suzanne S Barnhill 279.5K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2013-07-10T02:08:13+00:00

    Sadly, this was removed from the context menu in Word 2013. You are not the first to complain. Perhaps it will be restored in a service pack so we don't have to wait for the next version. It's especially annoying given how much more difficult it is to get to AutoCorrect Options in recent Word versions.

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