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Setting proofing and autocorrect options - Microsoft Word Tutorial
From the course: Word 2013 Essential Training
Setting proofing and autocorrect options
In the previous lesson, we learned how the spell and grammar checking functionality can help correct mistakes throughout a document very quickly and easily. There are also some mistakes that can get corrected on the fly, known as AutoCorrect. We're going to take a look at that, and the options you can turn on and off when working with AutoCorrect, and other proofing options as well. We'll just use a new blank document here, and start typing. I would like you to type your name, your first name, with a lowercase for the first letter. You can see I'm typing in david. As soon as you hit the Spacebar, look what happens; that first word is capitalized. Word knows it's either the beginning of a sentence, or a proper name, and if we hover over that change, you'll see a little lightning bolt as you move down. That gives you access to AutoCorrect options. So if we click it, we can undo that capitalization if we really didn't need it. We could choose to stop automatically capitalizing first…
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