Re: Automatic spelling correction - turn it off!

[David Candy]

In Word, Tools - Autocorrect Options, select ihs and click delete.

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"Jack Wachtler" > wrote in message =
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> I know this is a basic question, but I do appreciate your patient =
answer.
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> How do I make it so ALL Windows applications won't respell acronyms =
into words?
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> There is a company named IHS in my contact database and I don't want =
the auto-spelling to occur. Anytime I spell the acronym IHS in Word, =
Outlook or Access, the system respells it as "HIS". What a pain! How and =
where is this option/property set?
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> Thanks in advance for your reply.

[Jack Wachtler]

Greatly appreciated!

[Gord Dibben]

Open Word and Tools>Autocorrect Options. Make changes there. Delete the IHS
to HIS correction.

The *.ACL is common to all Office apps so will stop the correction in all.

Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 12:36:12 -0800, "Jack Wachtler"
> wrote:

>I know this is a basic question, but I do appreciate your patient answer.
>
>How do I make it so ALL Windows applications won't respell acronyms into words?
>
>There is a company named IHS in my contact database and I don't want the auto-spelling to occur. Anytime I spell the acronym IHS in Word, Outlook or Access, the system respells it as "HIS". What a pain! How and where is this option/property set?
>
>Thanks in advance for your reply.