# Does autocorrect help or hurt you more? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 15, 2023, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-autocorrect-help-or-hurt-you-more/979831 "2023-02-15T13:57:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cincinnatus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cincinnatus/32/7990_2.png) [@cincinnatus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cincinnatus)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2023, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-autocorrect-help-or-hurt-you-more/979831/21 "2023-02-18T12:40:07Z")
@Reeses_Monkey Look for “text replacement” on you computer or word processor program. I know Macintosh has it under Keyboard in System Preferences. I use it for a couple things. [Click here for Macintosh help](https://photos5.appleinsider.com/gallery/40722-78614-001-Text-Replacement-on-Mac-xl.jpg) I can’t recall if other systems have it. They must, considering your difficulty. iPad and iPhone have it under Setting-General-Keyboard. — _from one former yinzer to Nother_ P.S. when I type b rillig as one word I get “‘Twas brillig and the slythy toves did gyre and gimbal in the wabe. All mimsy were the borogoves and the mome raths out grabe. " ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2023, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-autocorrect-help-or-hurt-you-more/979831/22 "2023-02-18T12:59:46Z")
Thank you, I’ll try that. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2023, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-autocorrect-help-or-hurt-you-more/979831/23 "2023-04-16T01:43:56Z")
I usually catch its errors (I think) so I live with it. I do have it insert the rest of a longish sentence that I use in several letters/emails. In case some of you missed Prof. Perriwinkle’s earlier post-made me LOL: The inventor of Autocorrect has died. His funnel is tomato. ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2023, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-autocorrect-help-or-hurt-you-more/979831/24 "2023-04-16T01:55:10Z")
“The man who invented auto-correct has died. May he roast in piss.” ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2023, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-autocorrect-help-or-hurt-you-more/979831/25 "2023-04-16T02:05:30Z")
Harts me more than it heaps. ---
**Author:** ![alovem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@alovem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alovem)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2023, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-autocorrect-help-or-hurt-you-more/979831/26 "2023-04-16T16:50:24Z")
Autocorrect very much gets in my way, and spellcheck keeps me on my toes. Tweaking autocorrect is useful when a long word or term is going to be used repeatedly. For example, if you’re writing about the Smithsonian Institution, you can set autocorrect to change “tsi” to the full name. Saves time and effort, but you have to remember to delete it from the list when you’ve finished. I made use of this feature just a couple of weeks ago to avoid having to write out a long company name that appeared throughout a document. ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2023, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-autocorrect-help-or-hurt-you-more/979831/27 "2023-04-16T22:40:01Z")
I never use either autocorrect, or spellcheck, but yeah, autocorrect is a much worse bane. I write so creatively (in my native tongue) that autocorrect simply cannot follow, or cope, and works as well as bricks thrown randomly onto a figure skater’s path. I’m also an excellent speller (again in my mother language), so a spellcheck is useless. But I use neither even when writing in English, or other school-learned languages. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-autocorrect-help-or-hurt-you-more/979831.md?page=1)