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I'm wondering if anyone knows of a plug-in for MS Word which can handle key-presses of surrounding keys when typing at speed (rather like iPhone or Android autocorrect)?
My use case is in transcribing interviews where I need to type quickly (even with the playback at half speed) - but I don't do this often enough to become a proficient touch typist. I will also be paying close attention to the text produced in subsequent analysis so I have a reasonable expectation that I'll catch any "hilarious" autocorrect errors.
Any pointers to plug-ins which work at either a system level or within MS Word would be great. Even in an open source word processor at a pinch, though I'd miss the MS Word environment and my macros.
Thanks.
Thanks for the answer. I already have AutoCorrect enabled, but it doesn't seem to handle adjacent key presses, just missing letters, repeated letters and letters out of order. In this the Word AutoCorrect is actually much better than smartphone autocorrect which isn't very good if the word you want has more or fewer letters than you actually typed. I'm just surprised that it doesn't handle the sort of typical typing at speed missed keys too. Has anyone checked this out in Word 2013? – Jamie Bull – 2012-12-07T11:18:41.967
1@Jamie, thanks. I took a closer look and found that Word auto correction feature will only automatically replace a misspelled word if it's been explicitly been told the correct spelling already i.e if you have already corrected the misspelled word once before. You could instead try a macro to check for misspelled words and replace with the first suggestion. I've edited my original post to expand on this. – Adam – 2012-12-07T12:58:51.280