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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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Shultzie,
The Word 2016 addition is the one that addresses the empty square that developed after a recent update. The 2013 version used to work in both 2013/2016 versions. Therefore ensure the 2016 version is the only one that you have loaded.
Greg (and others) I installed the Word 2016 version from your site (towards the bottom) - "Word 2016 AutoCorrect Restored Again": see
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tip_pages/customize_shortcut_menu.html
on my wife's 365/2016 system. Works fine.
Hope you can persuade Microsoft to fix it soon. Shouldn't be rocket science!
Yes! Yes! Yes! I can't believe it! I HAVE AUTOCORRECT BACK!
You were right: I had both versions installed in the STARTUP folder, just deleted the 2013, and... AutoCorrect appeared with all its wonderful menu to the right!
Thank you Greg Maxey! It's wonderful; works like a marvel.
Huge thank you to Greg for the latest version of the autocorrect template, which is now working a treat on my computers.
Regards,
Elizabeth Hojlund
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!!