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I purchased Microsoft Word for Mac and for some reason, it will just not autocorrect some of the most common words as I type- Apple Pages works flawlessly, as does Bear Notes, but what I thought was a premium product just underlines simple mistakes in red instead of automatically correcting them. I believe I have the settings correctly set, but nothing. Any help is appreciated.
MacBook Pro (2020 and later)
Apple provides a built-in API for spelling and autocorrect. Most apps, like Pages, that use those built-in APIs will get all of the autocorrect dictionaries, and behaviour, for free.
Certain apps like Microsoft Word are more likely to do these kinds of things themselves. Microsoft already has a huge API of its own and it tries to ensure the same behaviour across all of its own products on both Windows and the Mac.
Apple has much more experience and knowledge on mobile environments than Microsoft, so Apple is likely to have a much better autocorrect mechanism. Microsoft Word's autocorrect just seems to be a really long list of autocorrections. You can add your own autocorrections if you want.
It is just a different philosophy. If you want the best autocorrecting, use Pages. If you want the experience to be identical to Word on Windows, right down to the same misspellings, use Word.
Apple provides a built-in API for spelling and autocorrect. Most apps, like Pages, that use those built-in APIs will get all of the autocorrect dictionaries, and behaviour, for free.
Certain apps like Microsoft Word are more likely to do these kinds of things themselves. Microsoft already has a huge API of its own and it tries to ensure the same behaviour across all of its own products on both Windows and the Mac.
Apple has much more experience and knowledge on mobile environments than Microsoft, so Apple is likely to have a much better autocorrect mechanism. Microsoft Word's autocorrect just seems to be a really long list of autocorrections. You can add your own autocorrections if you want.
It is just a different philosophy. If you want the best autocorrecting, use Pages. If you want the experience to be identical to Word on Windows, right down to the same misspellings, use Word.
The following discussion from the Microsoft Word for Mac forum may help, especially the one from Bob Jones dated May 6, 2020: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/autocorrect-not-working-word-for-mac/22d51fd5-0a1c-4ef3-bdbf-3d5dc88e9f97
Thank you. I had a feeling that it wasn't me, that it was just the way the program worked (or didn't work).
Microsoft Word for Mac
