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Anonymous
2018-02-18T11:13:25+00:00

I have Office 365 with Word 2016.

AutoComplete is turned on!

I get a suggestion when partially typing a word and it asks me to hit 'Enter'. Unfortunately, hitting the enter, now never finishes the word. It is cut off right at the spot where I accept the suggestion and the cursor moves to the next line. This has only been happening for the last couple of days.

For example, I type in "Febr" and Word suggests "February" and tells me to hit the enter key to accept. When I do I end up with "Febr" and the cursor moves down to the next line.

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  1. Vijay A. Verma 104.9K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2018-02-18T11:57:33+00:00

    Try using Tab key in place of Enter key. This would work.

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  2. Charles Kenyon 167.7K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2018-02-18T22:11:53+00:00

    AutoComplete is a feature of AutoText which is one of the kinds of building blocks.

    More on these can be found at

    http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/autotextau...

    Try the methods suggested by Vijay Verma. I suspect the problem to be an Add-In. See http://www.addbalance.com/word/addins.htm for more about these.

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  3. Vijay A. Verma 104.9K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2018-02-18T13:10:24+00:00

    Try following one by one and see after every step whether it resolves the issue-

    1. Sometimes, add-ins can cause problems. To determine, if add-in is a problem start your application in safe mode and see if problem has gone away.

    To start in Safe Mode -

    Hold CTRL key and click on application icon and don't release the CTRL key till it asks you for Safe mode confirmation.

    If yes, then start application normally and disable add-ins one by one and start application again every time you disable an add-in to determine the culprit add-in.

    To disable add-in > File > Options > Add-ins > Down below you have Manage: Com Add-in : Press Go > Untick the Add-ins to disable and tick to enable them

    1. Try repairing your office installation (Quick repair is good enough). Try repairing your Office installation. First try Quick Repair (takes 5 - 10 mins) , if that doesn't help then try Online Repair (Takes more than 30 mins but less than 1 hour in general)

    https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Repair...

    1. Login to Windows with a new user profile and see if problem is resolved.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-02-18T13:09:30+00:00

    Unfortunately no it didn't...It actually tabbed

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