AUTOCORRECT-ONENOTE: FOR GODS SAKE PROVIDE AN OPTION TO TURN IT OFF!!

Anonymous
2019-01-26T16:06:04+00:00

Why, why was OneNote released without an option to turn autocorrect off?! This problem is now old enough, how was this not fixed? You essentially made OneNote completely useless, since it auto-"corrects" everything you want to type into something wrong. Why was this option removed from the new Versions of OneNote? How does it come that its not fixed by now?

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-01-06T22:51:39+00:00

    In Office365 OneNote the way it was presented to me there was an option to revert to the "Classic Ribbon".

    After reverting I was able to turn off the most annoying autocorrects by following Home/Spelling/AutoCorrect Options.

    WARNING: After reverting to the "Classic Ribbon" I can't find anyway to change back to the default.

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-12-19T10:34:14+00:00

    Your response has not addressed the issue I have. I have added words directly to the MS dictionaries inside AppData, but OneNote is still autocorrecting them.

    An instructive response would be appreciated.

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-10-18T17:43:55+00:00

    Was adding some items to autocorrect in one note and read this, Curious if you could solve the main complaint but adding the entries you don't change with the same value for the autocorrect so it doesn't get changed. Just tried with thta which changed to that. I added thta and had it set to auto correct to thta and it stopped making a change.

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-10-04T18:56:24+00:00

    The fact that this isn't an option is insane to me. Not being able to turn this off makes the product effectively useless to me. I spend too much time correcting OneNote's overzealous and often wrong autocorrects.

    Agreed. It wouldn't be such a big deal if it didn't "re-correct" things that I specifically went back and "un-corrected". I work in a field with a lot of acronyms, one of them being EHR. Currently, the only way to type that in OneNote is to type it, let OneNote "fix" it, then go back over and fix it again. If I backspace to change it back, OneNote "corrects" it again as soon as I finish re-typing it.

    In short, this problem with OneNote is forcing me to break a habit I've had for 20+ years that no other software requires me to break, simply because Microsoft won't add the ability to turn off auto-correct.

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  5. Anonymous
    2019-08-29T16:05:13+00:00

    The fact that this isn't an option is insane to me. Not being able to turn this off makes the product effectively useless to me. I spend too much time correcting OneNote's overzealous and often wrong autocorrects.

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