Autocorrect while you type should become adaptive

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What if autocorrect in MS Word could be adaptive based on the statistical
errors that each user makes? Since everyone types differently, everyone
makes different errors more frequently than others. If Autocorrect could
"learn" based on the mistakes that the particular user makes, then spell
correction for that person would become more efficient.
For example, if MS Word could monitor the statistical mistakes of a user,
and then offer to that user the chance to add that mistake to autocorrect so
it doesn't keep happening in the future.
 
How do you want Word to distinguish between a word you correct because it's
mis-spelled as opposed to a Word you correct because it's the wrong word? I
would hate to find Word changing 'their' to 'there' automatically, even if
*I* make that change quite often.
 
It's already halfway there. Everytime you right-click on a word that Word
has marked as misspelled, you have the option to correct it (by substituting
a word from Word's lexicon) *or* to add the correction as an AutoCorrect
entry.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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