Aargh!

[stoutfellow]

Microsoft Access's auto-correct feature is often convenient. Not having to go back and manually correct "teh" or "ONto" is nice.

It is, however, a pain in the ass when you're trying to record the name of a Chinese poet, Miu Hsi. I cannot seem to persuade it that the name is not "His".

(Any suggestions, anybody?)

Comments

[ex_gryphon136]

I assume you've already tried adding "Hsi" to the spell-checker's dictionary?

[stoutfellow]

Actually, that had not occurred to me. I'm not sure it's as simple as that; AutoCorrect doesn't seem to have a dictionary per se, but only a list of very common typos. In any case, I like having AutoCorrect available in general; I just want to be able to override it at will. (Usually I can, but none of my tricks worked. sraun showed me another one that works in this case.)

[sraun]

I don't recall if that will work? Auto-correct does have its own source list.

He could hsi = Hsi to his auto-correct source list. But I think that would not fit his needs. Control-Z will undo an auto-correct, and if you do it right away and then keep typing, the auto-correct recognizes it "I really mean this one to be this apparently wrong thing", and leaves it alone.