Thank you for trying to help me, Charles, and apologies I should indeed have read about etiquette and cross-linked. Volunteering to 'pay forward' to return help I've received in the Microsoft user community.] Charles Kenyon Sun Prairie, Wisconsin wordfaqaddbalancecom Legal website: A correct title will get you more help on the issue. These are related in that the spelling error dialog can add corrections to the AutoCorrectįile (in certain versions of Word) and AutoCorrect options have a checkbox to use corrections from the spelling dictionary.

AutoCorrect is the feature that changes certain misspellings to correct them as you type. Would ordinarily flag as misspelled but which the user has told Word are correct. 'Custom dictionaries' refers to lists created in the spell checker of words that Word LordRogg: I would recommend that you change the title of this post to reflect AutoCorrect rather than custom dictionaries. I would urge anyone tempted to respond to this post to first read the linked thread. That tells me that you do not care if you make extra work for volunteers trying to help you. I have wrestled with it for a while now and simply can't get in line with its ways!Įtiquette explained. Uncertainty to completing what should be a straightforward writing task. However, for me, Autosave in particular is a step too far - it adds significant time and I should add that I have been using Word for more than 20 years and always found it pretty intuitive to use, with each new version adding useful extra functionality. If you could point me to a link telling me how to do either (preferably both) of these I would be very grateful. This was a great timesaver in the past (I'm not the world's best typist) but I couldn't find how to build the dictionary again in the 2016 online version. Please instruct me how to build up a custom dictionary which autocorrects words I often mistype. I would like to return to 'do you want to save changes' as my default autosave (with a small 'a') condition.

I desperately try to establish what was the original content of the base document. The box that comes up with 'would you like to.' (or whatever it says) is also non-intuitive - I'm not particularly thick but I can't work out with certainty what options its offering me. I write for a living and regularly create different versions of aĭocument (for web, brochure, press release etc) and unless I remember to turn Autosave off before starting any work on a new version, I end up having to row back to previous versions to preserve my original document (which will likely be the base for other However, in use it has turned out to be a complete pain and I would like to disable it or have its default condition as Off rather than On. My first reaction this new feature was 'great'. I have two problems with Word 2016 running in Office 365 online which I hope you can resolve for me:

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