Windows 10: Turn On or Off Autocorrect for Hardware Keyboard in Windows 10

How to: Turn On or Off Autocorrect for Hardware Keyboard in Windows 10

How to Turn On or Off Autocorrect Misspelled Words for Hardware Keyboard in Windows 10


Starting with text suggestions while typing on a hardware keyboard.

Text suggestions for hardware keyboard only supports the English (United States) language at this time.

This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off autocorrect misspelled words as you type on a hardware keyboard when text suggestions are available for your account in Windows 10.


CONTENTS:

• Option One: Turn On or Off Autocorrect Misspelled Words for Hardware Keyboard in Settings
• Option Two: Turn On or Off Autocorrect Misspelled Words for Hardware Keyboard in Registry Editor

OPTION ONE [/i] Turn On or Off Autocorrect Misspelled Words for Hardware Keyboard in Settings
1. Open Settings, and click/tap on the Devices icon.

2. Click/tap on Typing on the left side, and turn on or off (default) Autocorrect misspelled words I type for what you want under Hardware keyboard on the right side. (see screenshot below)

*note You will need to turn on Show text suggestions as I type to be able to turn on Autocorrect misspelled words I type .

3. You can now close Settings if you like.









OPTION TWO [/i] Turn On or Off Autocorrect Misspelled Words for Hardware Keyboard using a REG file

*note The downloadable .reg files below will modify the DWORD value in the registry key below.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Input\Settings

EnableHwkbAutocorrection DWORD

0 = Off
1 = On


1. Do step 2 (on) or step 3 (off) below for what you would like to do.


2. To Turn On Autocorrect Misspelled Words for Hardware Keyboard
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

*note This will also turn on Show text suggestions as I type for the hardware keyboard.

Turn_on_autocorrect_misspelled_words_as_type_for_hardware_keyboard.reg

Download

3. To Turn Off Autocorrect Misspelled Words for Hardware Keyboard
*note This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Turn_off_autocorrect_misspelled_words_as_type_for_hardware_keyboard.reg

Download
4. Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5. Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6. When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7. You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.

That's it,
Shawn


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Notepad is a simple text-editing program that allows minimal formatting and limited to simple text entry. Meanwhile, the autocorrect in Windows 10 can be enabled or disabled by following the steps below:

• Type Devices in Cortana search and press Enter.
• Click Typing beside the keyboard icon.

Each program has their own autocorrect features, from Windows built-in applications, web browsers, to installed applications. We suggest that you contact the application support to know more about their features.

Feel free to post back if you need further assistance.

 

Autocorrect in Win10... basically non-existent(?)

In this case, we suggest following the steps below to work around the issue:

• On the Cortana search box, type Typing Settings and press
  Enter.
• Turn off Autocorrect misspelled words and Highlight misspelled words.
• Restart your PC.
• Do step 1 and 2 but this time turn on Autocorrect misspelled words
  and Highlight misspelled words.
• Restart your PC.
• Check if the issue still exist.

If you have questions, please let us know.

 

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Just to be clear: I am using the onscreen software keyboard. Settings App -> Devices -> Typing -> Autocorrect misspelt words and Highlight misspelt words are off. I've even tried to stop it via a registry edit. Same result: autocorrect is still operating.

Ideally, I'd like to keep suggestions on. Happy with suggestions, I just want to do the corrections myself because it often `corrects` them wrongly which makes it harder to spot when proofreading.

However, if turning off suggestions as well is the only way, I can live with that, but whenever I toggle that off, it toggles itself back on again and so autocorrect comes back.

Tried asking this on the Office forums because I initially came across the problem when using Word, but it seems to be a general Windows problem.

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Hi,

Your concern about Windows 10 Mail can be due to the configuration of the application on your device. To better understand your concern, we'd like to know the following:

• If you've also already turned off Autocorrect misspelled words. To check this, you can perform the following:
  • Search and launch Settings using Cortana.
  • Click on Devices.
  • Click on Typing.
  • Locate Autocorrect misspelled words under Spelling.
• 
  The version and build of Windows 10 that you're using on your device. To check this, you can perform the steps posted on this
  
  link.
  

In the event that Autocorrect misspelled words is already turned off, we'd recommend turning it on and then turning it off again. This will refresh the feature's function on your device.

We look forward to your response.

 

Autocorrect in Win10... basically non-existent(?)

Okay. I have followred th instuctions to the ltter and am now trstngn to see if it wporked.

Sorry to say that it did not.