- [Instructor] The autocorrect feature
will often fix mistakes for you automatically as you type.
With autocorrect, you probably won't need to go back
and fix as many spelling mistakes.
This feature is turned on by default,
but we'll take a moment to understand how it works.
First, I'm going to type in some text here,
and I'm going to type the word document,
but I'm going to intentionally spell it wrong.
I'm going to end it with A-N-T instead of E-N-T.
And you'll see, as soon as I hit the space bar,
it automatically corrects that.
So it will automatically correct
some simple spelling mistakes for you.
Let's do a few more.
I'm going to start typing this new sentence,
but I'm not going to start with a capital letter
like I should,
and you'll see, as soon as I finish that word
and hit the space bar,
it automatically corrects that
because it knows I'm starting a new sentence.
Okay, let's keep going.
I'm going to type in the word the,
but I'm going to spell it wrong.
This is very common transposing those last two letters.
As soon as I hit the space bar,
it will automatically correct that.
And I'm going to type in the word Monday,
which should be capitalized,
and Word knows that,
so as soon as I hit the space bar,
it makes that change for me.
So, generally, autocorrect just works,
and you don't have to think about it,
but there are some settings that you can look at.
We're going to do this on Windows first.
We're going to click the File button near the top left
to go to the Backstage View.
Then we'll go to Options,
and in this panel,
we're going to go to the Proofing section.
And you can check some general settings
for the spell checking tools here,
and there's also a button here for AutoCorrect options.
And here you have even more settings.
And you can go through these options to see the things
that Word will automatically change for you.
If there's something that autocorrect does
that you don't like,
you can probably fix it by disabling one of these options.
Okay, let's see how this works on a Mac.
So on the Mac,
you'll need to go to the main application menu,
so you can click where it says Word
near the top left corner,
then go to Preferences.
You can see there are sections for Spelling & Grammar
and for AutoCorrect.
Naturally, you can click on one of these
and adjust any of the settings you want here.
Then you can click the Back button
and switch to the other one.
And naturally, if you go to the AutoCorrect options,
you can change what Microsoft Word
will automatically correct for you as you type.
The autocorrection tools can be very helpful
as you're composing a document,
but if you have some special circumstances,
you can modify or disable some of those automatic features.