Auto-correct can automatically correct capitalisation and spelling in Google Docs. It can also automatically detect links, lists and quotes. You can turn auto-correct on or off, turn off specific substitutions, and turn suggestions on or off.
Auto-correct is available in:
- English
- Spanish
- French
- Portuguese
- German
Turn off auto-correct
- Open a Google Docs or Google Slides file.
- Click Tools
Preferences
- To turn off certain auto-corrects, such as automatic capitalisation, spelling corrections or link detection, untick the box next to the function.
- Click OK.
Preferences Turn off specific automatic substitutions
- Open a Google Docs or Google Slides file.
- Click Tools
- To turn off certain automatic substitutions, next to the word, untick the box.
- To remove automatic substitutions, next to the word, click Remove
.
- Click OK.
.To always correct a specific word's spelling:
- Right-click on the word.
- Click Always correct to [word].
- After the word is corrected, hover your cursor over the word.
- Click Undo or Turn off to permanently turn off that type of correction.
Misspelled words are underlined in red. To turn spelling suggestions off:
- Open a document in Google Docs.
- Click Tools
- The tick mark will disappear to show that it is off.
Note: This will turn suggestions on or off for all of your documents.
Spelling suggestions are powered by machine learning. As language understanding models use billions of common phrases and sentences to automatically learn about the world, they can also reflect human cognitive biases. Being aware of this is a good start, and the conversation around how to handle it is ongoing. Google is committed to making products that work well for everyone, and is actively researching unintended bias and mitigation strategies.