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desktop, or an onscreen one you use on a tablet. Fortunately, you can tweak

it to your liking.

Some of these options appear only if you have a tablet or hybrid laptop
(whose keyboard comes off).

Autocorrect misspelled words. You might have noticed that, as
you type, Windows quietly and instantly corrects your obvious

typos. (Or maybe you haven’t noticed, which is even more
awesome.)

In other words, if you type “prolbem,” for example, it changes to

“problem” the instant you press the space bar at the end of the
word. There’s no beep, no underline, no error message; the
correction just happens.

Note

On the other hand, these spell-checking features work only in Microsoft Store apps—
Calendar, Maps, Photos, and the like—not traditional desktop apps like Notepad. So
maybe you really haven’t seen them.

Anyway, here’s the on/off switch for autocorrect—handy if, for
example, you’re writing a novel featuring a character with really
bad spelling.

Highlight misspelled words. But what about a word like “corse”?
Did you mean corset or course? Windows can’t read your mind.
(Maybe someday.)

In that case, Windows doesn’t correct the error—it just flags it by
displaying a wavy underline beneath the questionable word. You
can turn this off, too.

Typing. These three options make your onscreen keyboard behave
exactly like the one on a smartphone. For example, “Show text

suggestions as I type on the software keyboard” means you’ll get a