One advantage that modern wordprocessing software has over anything that preceded it is that it can make some corrections for you automatically as you type. The autocorrect option in Microsoft Word allows you to choose which corrections that you want the program to make for you. Some corrections that you can have fixed for you automatically are capitalisation errors, common typos (where you reverse certain letters eg. hte instead of the) and you can even use it to automatically expand out text when you type in a specific abbreviated code that you specify.

Setting AutoCorrect in Word

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