Microsoft Word: Spelling-Grammar-AutoCorrect

1.5 hours

Spelling and Grammar

-  Type: "Microsft Word is phun !"

-  Right click on Microsft, change to Microsoft

-  Right click on phun, options not available, fix by hand

-  Note: Green line has disappeared

o  Go to next line, green line reappears

-  Right click on green line, fix spacing error

-  Type: "How now brown cow. The rain in spain falls mainly on the plane?"

-  Fix Spain

-  Discuss "?". Put one with How now… to fix grammar error

-  Note that PLANE is the wrong one, but Word cannot tell

-  Type a bunch of gibberish. Watch the spelling book follow your gibberish. Be sure to include punctuation errors (Spaces before punctuation).

-  Right click on the spelling book and hide spelling errors

-  Right click on the spelling book and hide grammatical errors

-  Right click on the spelling book and view options

-  Close and don't save the document

-  Open the Tale-Tell Heart

-  Double click on the spelling book to get to the first spelling error

-  Double click on the spelling book to get to the first grammar error

-  Continue to double-click on the spelling book and make a few changes

-  Use the keyboard to right-click on an error

-  Use the spelling and grammar button (or F7)

-  Go through several corrections

-  Have class finish corrections on their own

-  Change options

o  Turn off IGNORE WORDS IN UPPERCASE

o  Turn on READABILITY STATISTICS

o  Recheck Document

-  Fix words where necessary

-  Discuss statistics

o  Average newspaper story: 70-80 (about eighth-grade level)

o  John F. Kennedy's inaugural address ("Ask not what …"): 10.3

o  Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death" speech: 6.6

-  Show Word Count under Tools Menu

AutoCorrect

-  Type: teh (space)

o  Note 2 corrections made, undo both

-  Type: Teh rain in Spain

o  Note the little blue box that appears under "The"

-  Tools->AutoCorrect Options…

-  Show other AutoCorrect features

o  TWo INitial CAptials

o  monday, tuesday

o  aCCIDENTAL CAP LOCKS

o  :) :( :|

o  :-) :-( :-|

o  (R) (C) (TM)

o  --> <=>

o  Scroll through list in Options

-  Add a word to the AutoCorrect

o  HSC Training -> HSC ITC Training

o  Try it!

-  Show AutoFormat Features

o  The rain in "Spain"

o  1st, 2nd

o  1/2 1/4 3/4

o  The rain in Spain -- falls mainly…

-  AutoBulleted lists

o  * how now

o  – brown cow

o  1. how now

o  a. brown cow

-  Borders & Tables

o  ---

o  ===

o  +---+---+

-  AutoText

o  Type in first for letters of the current month

§  Press enter to accept

§  Press Space, see the full date press enter again

-  Create your own AutoText

o  University of Florida

o  Addr

§  University of Florida
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