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. In Outlook 2003/2007, you can access suggested spellings and AutoCorrect options for misspelled words by clicking the lightning-bolt icon that appears when you hover over the word.

(Scroll to the end of the long list of changes made to Office 2013 to find 'Contents of spelling error context menu' in the Word section.) On its TechNet site, Microsoft explains that the change was made to streamline the right-click menus in those programs. When Microsoft released Office 2013 some Word and Outlook users were unpleasantly surprised to find the AutoCorrect options removed from the right-click (context) menu of Word 2013 and WordMail for Outlook 2013.

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