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Another feature that's a huge timesaver and that will help you save your bacon is called AutoCorrect and the next two modules talk about first AutoCorrect and then AutoText and they can be used really to compliment one another. Auto correct is at work by default with Word and it's the reason why you type a colon and an end paren and it immediately turns into a smiley face. If you don't want that, by the way, you can just hit the delete key and reverse that behavior and change back to what you originally typed. But the answer to why did that happen right away is because of AutoCorrect because it's enabled and because of all the AutoCorrect entries that are already predefined for you. So for example, if you spell the t-e-h and hit the space bar, that little blue underline that flashed across underneath the word is the AutoCorrect behavior at work. It automatically corrected the misspelled words. It again works in the background. It can be a huge benefit if you oftentimes misspell things and if it's working correctly, which it is, you won't have to give it much thought and it has, again, a huge list of predefined entries. So I purposely misspelled benefit there with an i and that's because I knew that AutoCorrect had an entry for b-e-n-i-f-i-t and it changed it automatically. So it can almost happen without you noticing it. What's also very nice here is that you can add words to the AutoCorrect behavior if you always misspell them. And the easiest way to do this is just to simply select a word, give it a Control click and then from the context menu, choose AutoCorrect and then add your AutoCorrect entry by choosing the right spelling of the word you meant to type. So if you always do that, control, click AutoCorrect and we'll change that to words, and now if I look in the AutoCorrect dialog box, you should see an entry for that word that I misspelled and the correction would be, of course, words. Same thing over here. Now, the other way to do it is that you can give it a double click and then you can open up the AutoCorrect dialog box. Go to the Word menu, choose Preferences and then from the authoring and proofing tools, go here to AutoCorrect. Now, from the AutoCorrect section, make sure that is selected, and you can see there's my emoticons here. It'll say replace and then maybe the dictionary won't suggest what you're going after. So p-e-l-l. There we go. So maybe that's the correct spelling of the word that I have misspelled and then I can add it to the auto correct list. If I just go down here and if I type a W for example, I should be able to start to find my entry. There it is. W-e-o-r-d-s. There's words and indeed I've confirmed the operation. Now, I'm going to escape out of this, which won't keep the change that I just entered, but again, that has to do with my screen resolution. It shouldn't be a problem on your computer. But that's how you use AutoCorrect. It can save your bacon. It can make your documents more perfect and of course it really is helpful when you can start to manipulate the behavior.