Automatic Correction Quirk

I have noticed the Automatic Correction is a bit stupid in that it keeps
correcting words you try to change, kind of like fighting with you about it.

Adding them to the custom dictioary doesn't help.

For example, HSA, which is an acronym for Health Savings Account keeps
changing automatically to HAS. It sometimes leaves you alone after the third
of fourth time you change it but there must be a way to get it to stop.

Please don't insult me by telling, "oh, you could to turn off automatic or
set it to ignore all uppercase.

I don't see any way to fix that.

My Word XP uses the same underlying DLL files for spell checking, and it
has an option to add exceptions to the autocorrect. But I couldn't get
that to work there. I tried adding the word both manually and
automatically, but it still insisted on correcting it. Although at
least in Word, you can use Ctrl-Z to undo the autocorrect.

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"tester" <tester@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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I've a few proper abbreviations like that too....at least in Outlook if one backspaces over the auto-correction the
replacement(correct word) re-entry remains.
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"tester" <tester@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:20F97C3E-7819-4FAE-94AA-5944E66B301E@xxxxxx

I've done some more testing and found a workaround. Not a great
workaround, but at least it's another option to either turning off auto
correction or telling it not to spell check all caps.

If you copy/paste the text and have at least one character after the
problem word (could be a space, punctuation, carriage return), it won't
autocorrect.


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"Michael Santovec" <michael_santovec@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ctrl-Z right after you see the "correction". You could also add it to your
custom dictionary.

Earle

"...winston" <winstonmvp@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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The original poster said that adding the word to the custom dictionary
doesn't work. And I can confirm that.

And Ctrl-Z seems erratic. Sometimes it works to undo the autocorrect
and sometimes it doesn't. I tried it yesterday and it didn't work at
all. Today it wasn't working, but after a few tries with different
words, it has started working. Strange.

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"Earle Horton" <earleh_nospam_@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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