If you would prefer that Word not generate predictive text, it is easy to disable it. While that isn't necessarily a problem, I tend to find the incorrect predictions to be distracting, and those distractions sometimes slow me down. In my case, however, the prediction is wrong as often as it is right. If you continue typing, the predicted text simply goes away without you having to do anything.Īdmittedly, there are probably some people who love Word's predictive text feature. You can either accept the prediction by pressing the right cursor key or you can reject it by typing what you intended. Word automatically adds the predicted text to your document. If you haven't seen this feature yet, the basic idea is that as you type, Word tries to guess what you are going to write next.

One of the new features Microsoft has added to Word in the past few months is predictive text. I wanted to talk about two of these new features and how you can disable them. Microsoft has made a couple of changes recently that fall into this category (at least for me). I'm sure these features are helpful to some I have just never needed to use them myself.Įvery once in a while, however, a feature comes along that is super annoying. Conversely, there are countless features in Word I have never used. Word's automatic spellcheck helps make up for my shortcomings. Even though I have been writing professionally since 1995, to this day I remain a terrible speller.

For example, I love the way that Word and other Office applications underline misspelled words. Sometimes, the new features that Microsoft adds are super helpful. The copy of Microsoft Word that I am using to write this column barely resembles the version of Word that I used in the early 1990s. It isn't exactly a secret that Microsoft adds features to its products on a regular basis.

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