Shortcut: You can also start to write typing over Find a setting on the Windows Settings page and select Typing settings from the suggestions that appear. Select Settings in the Windows Start menu.

To prevent Windows from ever correcting what you type automatically (which you can still get contextual suggestions and auto-completions): This lets Windows recognize text in different languages without autocorrecting foreign words. Recommended: Also enable Show text predictions based on the recognized languages you’re typing in under Multilingual text prediction. Now enable Show text suggestions as I type on the software keyboard as well for virtual keyboard predictive text.Optional: Turn on Autocorrect misspelled words as I type as well to have Windows replace misspellings with the most likely correct alternative automatically. Enable Show text suggestions as I type under Hardware keyboard.

Windows keyboard shortcut: You can also press Windows I to open Windows settings. Note: You may only see the gear icon ( ⚙️). To turn on predictive text and autocorrect in Windows 10: How to Enable Predictive Text Replacement on Windows Press Space or Enter to enter the suggestion followed by a whitespace character typing any other character or punctuation mark will enter that character or mark and generate a new suggestion. Optionally, use the right ( →) and left ( ←) keys to highlight the desired selection.ģ. Press the up key ( ↑)-even when the suggestions appear below the line of text.Ģ. Windows autocorrect keyboard shortcuts: To choose from predictive text suggestions using the keyboard:ġ.

Choose from the selection with the mouse, tap or continue typing to improve suggestions.

Wait for the text suggestions to appear above or, if space does not suffice, below what you have typed so far.

Something from nothing: Hitting Space for a whitespace character also usually generates a suggestion.

Type at least one character to start a sentence.

To enter words swiftly with smart and contextual text suggestions in Windows 10:

Keyboard predictive text