Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007 Plain & Simple

Defining AutoCorrect and AutoFormat Entries

You’re bound to make typing mistakes when you spend a lot of time at the keyboard. In fact, slowing down doesn’t help; the more slowly you go, the more likely you are to hit the wrong keys.

Over the years, many Excel users have allowed the programming team to monitor their typing, which means that the Excel team has been able to identify the most common mistakes resulting from popular misspellings, letter transpositions, and errors that are the result of not pressing the spacebar fast enough to put a space between words. If one of the words Excel identifies as an error is actually correct (for example, you work with a client corporation named Idae, a popular misspelling of the word idea), you can ...