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
    2016-05-26T07:30:32+00:00

    I had the same yesterday, and Greg emailed me a brand sparkly new version that does work. I thought he had put it up on his site - if you contact him through the web form he is very good about getting in touch.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-05-26T06:06:22+00:00

    Although I tried everything said on this forum with no results, now I tried Greg Maxey's exelent work, his latest and revised version and saw a light of hope. I installed the 2016 file (I have Office 365/Word 2016) in Word's STARTUP folder as explained; nothing happened. Then installed the 2013 file; nada. Then I restarted the computer and... voilá! when right-clicking the mouse, on the menu appears the option of "Auto correct". Almost cried with joy, BUT when selecting the "Auto correct" option the only thing that happens is that a small empty square appears on the right, but nothing more; no options, no nothing.

    Sigh.

    (insert sad emoticon here)

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-05-25T22:46:25+00:00

    Jon,

    Thanks.  I got the first report of this issue about 2 weeks ago.  Then again last week.  Both times I checked and it still worked for me.  Today I saw this thread was restarted so I checked again and it had stopped working.

    Office updated Tuesday night I think.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-05-25T21:19:51+00:00

    Good work Greg. Just to advise that your <Add AutoCorrect to Word 2013 Spelling Shortcut Menu.dotm> downloaded 6 April stored in my Word Startup folder is still working fine.

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-05-25T15:40:09+00:00

    Folks,

    It seems that MS strikes again.  A revised version of the add-in can be download at:

    http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tip_pages/customize_shortcut_menu.html

    Apparently in a recent update MS has attempted to add an additional control to the Spelling Context menu with the caption "Proofing".  Well, they failed.  No such control appears and their actions offset the index value in my code which was resulting in an error.

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