Enable or Disable Autocorrect, Text Suggestions, and Highlighting

Windows 10 & 11 can highlight and autocorrect misspelled words and show text suggestions while you type on a hardware keyboard. Here's where to find the settings for these three.

Open Settings. Begin typing Typing settings in search, and click on Typing settings.



Here are your choices:

Spelling

Autocorrect misspelled words

Highlight misspelled words

Typing

Show text suggestions as I type on the software keyboard

Add a space after I choose a text suggestion

Add a period after I double-tap the Spacebar

While we're here, you might want to look at your other options:

Hardware keyboard

Show text suggestions as I type

Autocorrect misspelled words I type

Multilingual text suggestions

Show text suggestions based on the recognized languages you're typing in

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