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Word 2016 - NO rightclick option for "Add to Autocorrect" as a permanent correction

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2021-06-13T21:07:28+00:00

A year and a half ago, I complained in this Forum that my company's upgrade from Word 2010 to Word 2016 caused the right-click permanent addition to Auto-Correct to disappear.

See my thread at < THIS LINK> , which is now locked.

I wrote that "MS has REMOVED the right-click "Add to autocorrect:" option for misspelled words.  If I misspell a word like "leashold" and right-click it, I see the option to change it to the correct "leasehold" but I NO LONGER see the option to make the correction a permanent autocorrect entry so that the same typing error fixes itself going forward."

This is still an issue. I cannot understand why MS removed this basic, highly usable feature.

In my old thread, a response gives a third-party add-on that sort of fixes the problem,. but it causes my CPU to go bonkers. It is NOT the equivalent of what Word used to have.

Why hasn't MS restored this right-click "Add to Auto-Correct" function?

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  1. Charles Kenyon 167.8K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2021-06-13T21:23:38+00:00

    You are right. This is a long-standing issue.

    Microsoft will tell you that they have restored it.

    They have, sort of. It is just a lot of clicks!

    See this message in 2016.

    This is the right-click menu:

    Or, you can try See More...

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    Then the editor comes up and you can click the drop-down by a correction choice to find AutoCorrect.

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    You can also restore the legacy spell-check dialog that still has this.

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    Classic Spell Check Dialog - Macro to use classic dialog rather than Editor

    I am using Microsoft 365 but believe that all the messing around with the Editor has been in Word 2016 as well.

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  2. Charles Kenyon 167.8K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2021-06-14T03:52:26+00:00

    Greg Maxey offers a fix that restores the Add to AutoCorrect command to the right-click menu. You can download it from https://gregmaxey.com/word_tip_pages/customize_shortcut_menu.html#WACR .

    I am unsure that this works in Word 2016 since the introduction of the Editor. It works in Word 2013. It does not in Word 365.

    The screenshot is from 365 with Greg's add-in active.

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    I no longer have 2016 on my system so am writing from ignorance.

    The earlier screenshot of the legacy dialog is with his Add-In not loaded.

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  3. Jay Freedman 207.7K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2021-06-14T01:36:56+00:00

    Greg Maxey offers a fix that restores the Add to AutoCorrect command to the right-click menu. You can download it from https://gregmaxey.com/word_tip_pages/customize_shortcut_menu.html#WACR .

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  4. Charles Kenyon 167.8K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2021-06-14T01:09:51+00:00

     

    Charles - nice to see you again and hope all is well.

    I'll try your suggestions again, but I think we both agree that those are too many steps. I am also a working lawyer with long transactional documents and need to go fast. There's no good reason for MS not to restore what we had.

    But, then. MS doesn't give a fig for the document needs of the legal profession. Word is antithetical to what we need for long documents and many other aspects of our profession,

     

    Yes, all is well.

    I agree that those seem like a lot of steps. If there is only one suggestion, the AutoCorrect option may appear immediately; I do not know.

    I do not agree that MS doesn't give a fig for the document needs of the legal profession. I've easily created many a lengthy appellate "brief" using Word and succeeded with (some of) those appeals. My "Usersguide" website is based on the old Microsoft Word Legal User's Guide. I think most of the legal profession's animus to Word is that it is not and never will be *Word Perfect*, which they learned first. I have handled thousand-page documents in Word (which far exceeds the needs of most legal professionals). (I am a criminal defense lawyer and so do not do lengthy transactional documents any more.)

    The way I have my Word set up I have both the legacy dialog (activated with the F7 key) as well as the Editor (activated through right-click).

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-06-13T21:35:16+00:00

    Charles - nice to see you again and hope all is well.

    I'll try your suggestions again, but I think we both agree that those are too many steps. I am also a working lawyer with long transactional documents and need to go fast. There's no good reason for MS not to restore what we had.

    But, then. MS doesn't give a fig for the document needs of the legal profession. Word is antithetical to what we need for long documents and many other aspects of our profession,

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