

Now when you click the Spelling & Grammar shortcut on the Quick Access toolbar, the standard spell-checking window opens and displays suggested corrections (the same that appear when you right-click the misspelling), as well as buttons for ignoring the misspelling once or always, changing it once or always, adding it to the dictionary, and opening the Options dialog from which you can access the AutoCorrect Options. (The steps are the same in the 20 versions of Word and in WordMail for Outlook 2010.) Add AutoCorrect to the Quick Access toolbar in WordMail for Outlook 2013 via the context menu for Spelling & Grammar on the Review ribbon. One option for easier access to Outlook 2013's AutoCorrect options is to add a spell-check shortcut to the Quick Access toolbar: click New Email on the Home ribbon (or press Ctrl-N), select the Review ribbon, right-click Spelling & Grammar, and choose Add to Quick Access Toolbar. Opening AutoCorrect Options in Outlook 2013 via menu options requires five separate clicks then you enter each new auto-correct entry manually. Enter the misspelling in the Replace box, the correct spelling in the With box, and click Add. Microsoft suggests you access AutoCorrect in Outlook 2013 by clicking File > Options > Mail > Spelling and AutoCorrect > AutoCorrect Options. The best software interfaces are flexible enough to accommodate the way we prefer to work. People don't all work alike: some of us like to click, some of us like to key, and most of us do a little of both.

In search of software that works the way we do The Webmail-like interface of WordMail for Outlook 2013 is decidedly less cluttered than its predecessor. The mail-composition window in WordMail for Outlook 2010 appears cluttered when compared with the mail composer in Outlook 2013 (below). But from an aesthetic perspective, Outlook 2013's mail-composition window looks about the same as its predecessor, with the exception of the context menu. The design team for Word 2013 and WordMail for Outlook 2013 can't be faulted for wanting to simplify the programs' interfaces. An AutoCorrect submenu was added to the context (right-click) menu in Word 20, and WordMail for Outlook 2010. Word 2010 and WordMail for Outlook 2010 expanded the context menu to include an AutoCorrect submenu in addition to suggested corrections for misspellings.


Click the lightning-bolt icon under misspellings in Outlook 2003/2007 to view your auto-correct options.
