Can Auto-Correct Be Switched Off ?

[Alan de Enfield]

If auto-correct could be 'taught' a full vocabulary it may help, but, as it stands I have to carefully read my post before clicking 'send', even then, once 'published' words totally out of context are substituted.

Latest one was substituting 'leak' with 'lean' so the boat didn't have a leak - it had a 'lean'.

Can the Auto-correct be disconnected, disabled or somehow removed - its annoying !!!!

 

 

[rusty69]

What are you typing on?

I use the SwiftKey keyboard App on android, which allows you to turn off autocorrect from the settings menu. 

[Nightwatch]

Hope not.

[pete.i]

Mine can in settings. It can be a bit of a maze to find it though. My phone is a Samsung J3. Autocorrect is the most idiotic thing ever put on a phone. Sometimes I cannot make head nor tail of some posts because the poster has relied on autocorrect and cannot be a***d to check the post content.

[Dr Bob]

How can an intelligent spell checker change "infra red" to "infrequent red" as mentioned in another thread?

[Mac of Cygnet]

As others have said, auto-correct seems to be a feature of the device or browser.  I can turn off auto-correct (but it doesn't auto-correct, just underlines in red) in IE 11 by Tools - Manage Add-ons.

[Alan de Enfield]

1 hour ago, rusty69 said:

What are you typing on? 

Acer Aspire Laptop with integral keyboard.

17 minutes ago, Mac of Cygnet said:

As others have said, auto-correct seems to be a feature of the device or browser.  I can turn off auto-correct (but it doesn't auto-correct, just underlines in red) in IE 11 by Tools - Manage Add-ons.

I get the 'wiggly red underline' but only if it is a spelling mistake.

If I were to type 'I've got a lean' instead of 'I've got a leak' then I would not get the wiggly-line.

Some software somewhere (forum or lap-top ??) decides it knows what I really meant to type and just changes it.

[rusty69]

8 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:

Acer Aspire Laptop with integral keyboard.

Sounds like a browser thing. When I use my netbook with chromium browser there is no auto correct,although I do get the wriggly red line,and spellcheck can be disabled under settings,advanced menu

Edited February 22, 2018 by rusty69

[Mac of Cygnet]

7 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:

Acer Aspire Laptop with integral keyboard.

I get the 'wiggly red underline' but only if it is a spelling mistake.

If I were to type 'I've got a lean' instead of 'I've got a leak' then I would not get the wiggly-line.

Some software somewhere (forum or lap-top ??) decides it knows what I really meant to type and just changes it.

Autocomplete usually only applies to forms, websites, etc. but may extend further.  This page tells you how to change its settings in various browsers.

[Alan de Enfield]

6 hours ago, Mac of Cygnet said:

Autocomplete usually only applies to forms, websites, etc. but may extend further.  This page tells you how to change its settings in various browsers.

Thanks I've done all that so we'll see what happens if I type leak

 

Edit - looking good !!!

Edited February 23, 2018 by Alan de Enfield

[Alan de Enfield]

Testing :

Infra red thermometers

 

Edit - yup, it works !!!!!

Edited February 23, 2018 by Alan de Enfield

[Tam & Di]

18 hours ago, Dr Bob said:

How can an intelligent spell checker change "infra red" to "infrequent red" as mentioned in another thread?

I guess that is more an instance of predictive text rather than auto-correction - its wordlists just didn't have "a" as a letter coming after "infr..", and infrequent could be the first possible word available to it alphabetically. Try typing "infrastructure" and see what it does to that.

[Alan de Enfield]

Infrastructure

 

Edit - Its OK for me.

Edited February 23, 2018 by Alan de Enfield

[rusty69]

Just now, Alan de Enfield said:

Infrastructure

Now try typing"the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs"

[Tam & Di]

Dr Bob's Predictive-text spell check must have a different embedded dictionary - there are lots of words using "a" is a letter to follow "infr.." that he could try.

[Dr Bob]

20 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:

Testing :

Infra red thermometers

 

Edit - yup, it works !!!!!

What do you get if you type Fuchsia?

[Alan de Enfield]

8 minutes ago, rusty69 said:

Now try typing"the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs"

 

2 minutes ago, Dr Bob said:

What do you get if you type Fuchsia?

The Fuchsia jumped over the infra red fox followed by the lazy dogs

 

Edit to add :

It now appears to amalgamate all sorts of statements - a bit frightening what it could come up with next.

Edited February 23, 2018 by Alan de Enfield

[rusty69]

1 minute ago, Alan de Enfield said:

 

The Fuchsia jumped over the infra red fox followed by the lazy dogs

Now, to complete your beginners typing course, type:-

I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son
I'm only plucking pheasants 'till the pheasant plucker comes.

5 minutes ago, Dr Bob said:

What do you get if you type Fuchsia?

A warning from the mods. 

Edited February 23, 2018 by rusty69

[Alan de Enfield]

1 minute ago, rusty69 said:

Now, to complete your beginners typing course, type:-

I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son
I'm only plucking pheasants 'till the pheasant plucker comes.

You sir (or should that be Cur) are not a 'pleasant plucker person'

[rusty69]

1 minute ago, Alan de Enfield said:

You sir (or should that be Cur) are not a 'pleasant plucker person'

I am sorry. You have failed your beginners typing exam due to poor punctuation! 

Please try again next year. 

[Dr Bob]

12 minutes ago, rusty69 said:

A warning from the mods. 

[cuthound]

The autowrong on my Samsung tablet often makes up newith  by taking the last letter or two of the word I wrote, and adding a word beginning with those letters to make a long new nonsensical word.

It's weird or haunted.

[cuthound]

2 hours ago, cuthound said:

The autowrong on my Samsung tablet often makes up newith  by taking the last letter or two of the word I wrote, and adding a word beginning with those letters to make a long new nonsensical word.

It's weird or haunted.

Just noticed that it has done it in the above , "newith" instead of "new words"