Chapter 13: Transforming Annoying Automation
There are many things to love about Word. Throughout this book, we have covered several tools and features of Word to help make you more efficient and productive in your workflows: from using and modifying Word's Styles, Quick Parts, and building blocks to utilizing Word's proofing and accessibility tools more effectively.
However, there will be times when Word will automatically add or change text when you don't want it to. Word will think it is being helpful, but for you, it will be so annoying trying to figure out what is happening and where you need to go to stop and correct the problem. That is what this chapter is all about. In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:
- Stopping Word from automatically adding or changing text
- Understanding and working with AutoFormat
- Creating custom keyboard shortcuts
- Customizing custom dictionaries
The preceding topics will all work together to...
