Many of the documents I’m editing contain chemical notations - for example: CO 2, H 2S, O 3, and the like. Let me give you some examples based on some work I’m doing now. (NOTE: AutoCorrect has a 256-character limit, including spaces, punctuation, etc.) The power is in setting up whole strings of text that get generated just by a couple of letters, or in setting up text formatted just the way you want.
Simple typo corrections are easy to set up (see this blog post for how to do so: ). Word already has a default set of auto corrections, and you can add your own. Hidden, because many Word users don’t know it exists, or, if they know it exists, think that it’s just for fixing a typo like ‘teh’ by changing it to ‘the’.īut there’s so much more to AutoCorrect than just fixing common typos.
Word’s AutoCorrect is one of its hidden gems.