Autocorrect question

[berard]

Hello,
We recently came across an odd autocorrect entry, and thought I'd ask the
group if anyone knows more about how autocorrect works.

I understand that words such as "teh" would be corrected to "the", but it
was certainly odd to see "naive" corrected to "nave"

I can't imagine that it's correcting all words, but I also find it hard to
believe that "nave" has been explicitly set to correct...

We fixed the issue by disabling autocorrect in Tools->Preferences->Advanced,
but that's an all or nothing solution.

Thoughts?

keith

[ebenton]

When I type in the word "naïve" on this HTML message in Outlook, as soon as I hit the space bar after the word, Windows corrects it to have an umlaut over the "i". Maybe that's why the speller didn't recognize it.

[ebenton]

Make that Microsoft Word, instead of just Windows, I think that's what Outlook uses for an editor when you elect to send out email in HTML format.

[ClayHelberg]

Hi Keith--

You can customize the autocorrect feature, adding your own words (and
corrections for them) by modifying the autocorrect.xlf file. See help
6053-1.

--Clay

Keith Berard wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We recently came across an odd autocorrect entry, and thought I'd ask
> the group if anyone knows more about how autocorrect works.
>
> I understand that words such as "teh" would be corrected to "the", but
> it was certainly odd to see "naive" corrected to "nave"
>
> I can't imagine that it's correcting all words, but I also find it
> hard to believe that "nave" has been explicitly set to correct...
>
> We fixed the issue by disabling autocorrect in
> Tools->Preferences->Advanced, but that's an all or nothing solution.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> keith
>
>
> ----------

[berard]

Great, that's exactly it.
<trans-unit id="0">
<source>naive</source>
<target>nave</target>
</trans-unit>

Such a strange entry...

Thanks,
keith

[ptc-953926]

Is autocorrect a 5.3 feature?

[ebenton]

I have 5.2 and the autocorrect.xlf file exists in my Arbortext
installation.