Autocorrection

firesys allows you to enhance the Office AutoCorrect function.

It gives you options for defining fixed spellings for terms, which will then be automatically corrected as you type. For a better overview, you can define groups for various topic areas.

The AutoCorrect interface

You can display the AutoCorrect interface from the “*Publish” ribbon in the “Layout and wording” group by clicking on the upper part of the “AutoCorrect” split button.

The list

Shows fixed groups and terms. Clicking on a group shows the allocated terms.

Term

Add a term

Adds a new term (see “Add a term”).

Edit a term

Opens the task field to edit the selected term. You can change the pair of terms, change the assigned group or edit the comment.

Delete a term

Deletes the selected term.

Term from dictionary

Adds the auto-corrected company names that are maintained in the Excel dictionary (see “Add company names from dictionary”). Requires languagewords, the multilingual manager for Excel.

Manage Groups

Opens the task field for adding, editing and deleting groups.

Additional functions

Expand all/reduce all
Expands or reduces all objects in the list. This makes more information available to you.

Search
Opens the search field in order to search the list for certain information.

Help
Opens the help area which supports you as you work.

Open firesys help portal
Opens the help portal in your browser.

Video: Add term

A detailed explanation of the individual steps

How to add a term to the AutoCorrect function:

1. Select a word in your document.

2. On the “*Publish” ribbon, in the “Layout and wording” group, click on the lower half of the “AutoCorrect” button and select “Add term”.
   →A dialog window opens.

3. Here you can define your entries more precisely with the following settings:

This term

• Enter the incorrect spelling of the term here.

Replace with

• Enter the correct spelling of the term here.

Group

• Select a group for the new term or create a new group via “Manage groups”.

Comment

• Add a comment to the term (optional).

Add

• Adds the term to the AutoCorrect function.

Cancel

• Closes the task field without adding a new term.

4. Click on "Add".
   → Der Begriff wird der Autokorrektur hinzugefügt.

Add company names from dictionary

AutoCorrect can import company names directly from the dictionary, which will be automatically corrected when they are typed in with the wrong capitalization or lower case letters. The layout check reviews spelling in the document.

Carry out the following to import company names from the dictionary:

• On the “*Publish” ribbon in the “Layout and wording” group, click “AutoCorrect”.
• Click on the “Add from dictionary” button.
• Select the Excel file that contains the dictionary in the following dialog.
• The following dialog will automatically list all cells containing a company name (e.g. AG, GmbH, Co. KG, SE, etc. and so on). Select all the entries you want to add to the AutoCorrect function, and confirm your selection with “OK”.

The selected terms are added to the glossary in the group “firesys (Word list)”.

	Good to know
	Only one dictionary can be linked to AutoCorrect. If you wish to use a second dictionary, all existing dictionary terms are removed.

See also

The firesys layout functions
The layout check
Align with baseline grid
Letter Spacing and word spacing

Further contents

→ firesys website
→ Customer area
→ YouTube