Marc,
You can't delete the AutoCorrect terms that come with Word other than the
laborious way -- one by one. (That's in Word 2001, but I doubt that 2004 is
any different -- I'll be finding out next week when I get my copy.)
It takes about 20 minutes to delete all, or almost all, of the entries. When
you have done so, back up the Microsoft Office ACL [English] file just in
case you want an empty one in future.
The great advantage of investing in this 20 minutes is that it's much
easier, once you have accumulated a list of your own AutoCorrect terms, to
check whether you made one up earlier, and what it is -- because your list
will be *much* shorter than one that includes the default terms.
Happy deleting!
Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(this is in a very different time zone from the US and Europe,
so my follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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Mitchell at (e-mail address removed) wrote on 30/5/04
12:22 AM:
The list is the Microsoft Office ACL [English] file in
~Library/Preferences/Microsoft folder.
I do not think you can edit the list as you do a custom/exclude dictionary,
but I could be wrong. You could Send Feedback (under Help) to request an
editable text list, unless someone corrects me soon.
You can turn the feature off entirely in the Tools | AutoCorrect dialog.
Uncheck "replace text as you type."
Unchecking "use suggestions from spellchecker" may help also.
Or you can find and delete individual entries in the same dialog.
But it can make more sense to turn it to your own ends by entering your
common mistakes and personal abbreviations, more info:
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/customization/AutoCorrect.htm
DM
Marc Wielage said:
That's exactly what I want. Where's the list of words kept? How can I
delete them in one swell foop, rather than one at a time?
--MFW
