You can then add your own custom words and then the correction you’d like it to be replaced with. After that, click on AutoCorrect Options. Simply click File, then Options, then click on Proofing. Have some words that you just can’t spell right? Or, are there long words or phrases you write very often? You can use custom AutoCorrect settings to make your life far easier. You must then tick the two options for hiding spelling and grammar mistakes in the document you are currently writing in. To disable spelling and grammar check in Word for only one document, click File, then Options, then click Proofing. You can also turn off spelling and grammar check completely to remove those pesky red and green lines. This is useful if you are using abbreviations or fictional words. Disable Spelling and Grammar Checkįirstly, it’s common knowledge that you can right click a word with a spelling error and click ‘ Add to Dictionary’. It saves moving to your browser and performing a search, but it’s just as powerful as doing so. Simply highlight a word, right click and click Smart Lookup.ĭoing this will open a small panel that contains information relating to the word. If you are editing a Word document but need context, you can use the Smart Lookup tool. This tool is something that many old school Word users may not even know exists, but it’s incredibly useful. For example, typing ‘ create a table’ will give you some options for creating a table from within your Word document. If you are trying to find a function on Microsoft Word but are struggling to navigate the menus or can’t remember the shortcut, click the ‘Tell me what to do’ shortcut at the top of the toolbar ribbon.įrom here, you can type in the action you’d like to perform and you’ll get contextual answers to take advantage of. Hold down the backspace button and the ctrl button together to delete chunks of text at lightning speed. Need to delete a big chunk of text? Instead of holding down the backspace bar, you can instead hold CTRL and then press BACKSPACE.ĭoing this will delete one word each time you press the backspace button, instead of just one character.
If you need it back at any point, you can press Ctrl + F1 again to bring it back into view. If you want distraction-free writing, you can remove the toolbar ribbon that sits at the top of your document by pressing Ctrl + F1. This feature is known as Spike in Word.Īs a final step, you can then highlight the contents and use the bullets or numbering tools in the toolbar to turn the words/phrases into a more ordered list. Once you are finished, go to the area in the document you’d like the list to be created and press Ctrl + SHIFT + F3 to paste all of the highlighted areas you’ve just copied. You can do this multiple times until you have found each word/phrase. Instead of going back and forth, writing each item onto the list each time you see a word, you can simply highlight each word and press CTRL + F3. Let’s say you need to go through a document and pick out certain words/phrases and create a list from them. After, type the contents you’d like it be replaced by. Next, click on Replace, then type in the word or phrase you want to replace. Have you just finished a lengthy document and just noticed you made a small mistake for a word, for example, writing land mark, instead of landmark? You can fix this within a few seconds by using find and replace.įirst, press Ctrl+F and the find and replace tool will open. Instead of clicking and dragging to highlight an area of text in Microsoft Word, you can instead click once to place the text cursor at the start of the area you’d like to highlight, hold shift, then click at the end of the area you’d like to highlight. If you would like to clear the formatting on everything in your document, press Ctrl+A to highlight everything in the document and then click the clear formatting icon.
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