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001 The hidden "auto-expand text" feature

001 The hidden "auto-expand text" feature - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

001 The hidden "auto-expand text" feature

Anne-Marie Concepcion > Ladies and gentlemen, has this ever happened to you? You're innocently typing? Let's say here I am, I want to enter the word "the." I type T and then I get distracted and I type EH. And then I type a space and go on, and then I realize that it has been misspelled but I don't realize it until 50,000 copies have been distributed. Wouldn't it be nice if you could have like a little correction following you along, correcting your commonly misspelled words as you type? Actually, you can in InDesign. For many versions, at least since CS2, has had an autocorrect feature that for some reason has never been turned on. You have to know that it exists and that you need to turn it on. So to turn on autocorrection on a PC, go under the Edit menu > Preferences. If you're on a Mac go under the InDesign menu. And choose Autocorrect. Turn on Enable Autocorrect. Click OK. The end. Now you can type TEH and a period or a space or any kind of character that tells InDesign I'm done…

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