The Autocorrect function in Microsoft Word automatically changes
"I'll" to "I'all" and then flags it as a misspelled word. But no
matter what I do, I can't get it to stop changing "I'll" to "I'all."
And curiously, it also changes "she'll" to "she'all" and "they'll" to
"they'all," but leaves "you'll" alone and doesn't change it to
"you'all." And if I just type 'll (i.e., apostrophe, double l) it
changes it to 'all and flags it as a misspelling.

This is driving me batty. What can I do so that when I type "I'll"
(and the other "'ll" contractions) it will leave it alone?

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Request for Question Clarification by tar_heel_v-ga on 27 Oct 2004 08:42 PDT

Dick..

Let's try a couple of things first.  Open up Word.  Go to Tools,
Autocorrect.  Check the list of autocorrections and see if there is an
entry that is replacing 'll with 'all or replacing ll with all.  If
so, delete it.  You can also uncheck the box next to "Replace text as
you type" to stop the autoorrect feature and then simply run spell
check on your document when you are done.  Let me know if this works.

By the way, what version of Word are you using?

-THV

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Clarification of Question by dickgrote-ga on 27 Oct 2004 10:21 PDT

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Here's what happened. Apparently at some point I made an autocorrect
entry to replace "ll" with "all." I had checked to see if there was an
"'ll" entry but didn't think to check just "ll." I found it, nixed it,
and life is sweet again.

Thanks for your help.

Dickgrote..

Thanks for your question.  The autocorrect feature of MS Word is
great, unless it is wrong! :)  I have found myself in a very similar
situation and realized that I had created a correction for something
that was incorrect and therefore it stayed in the system.  To repeat
your solution:

Open up Word.  Go to Tools, Autocorrect.  Check the list of
autocorrections and see if there is an entry that is replacing 'll
with 'all or replacing ll with all.  If so, delete it.

I am glad we were able to recitify your problem.

Regards,

-THV

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-THV

I wonder why it didn't turn "you'll" into "you'all."

Maybe it objects to southernisms?

Pink, there is no "Southernism" in you'll.  You'll is not even CLOSE
to ya'll, which is a pure southernism that is often misused by
non-southern natives!

bd

My dear Pink..

You of all people should know that the God given right to say y'all
has been bestowed upon those of us lucky enough to have been born and
raised in the South.  The reaction to non-Southerners total and
complete misuse of the word gives the same reaction to fingernails on
a blackboard.  Y'all is simply the contraction of the 2nd person
plural (though there would be some arguement to the plural use"
pronoun "You All" and is in now way related to "you will" or "you'll".

Yikes. I am sorry that people took my remark seriously. I was trying
to make a little joke. I guess it was so little that it was
unnoticeable, eh? :-D

I thought it was funny. I guess it's another one of those things in
life, when something meant to be art can be critiqued by empirical
knowledge and logic, and though not usually the intention of the
critiquER, it, in the process of doing so, loses some or most of it's
intended appeal, which we often refer to as "je ne sais quoi"

C'est la vie