A small thing, but it would be nice if the autocorrect recognized when a user backspaces and undoes the autocorrect. Currently, it will continue to “correct” something any time a user deletes it and redoes it. You’ve got to back up with arrows and make the change in order to make it stick.
…and this is the reason I never use autocorrect. I’d categorize the current behavior as a bug.
Nathan
Is that what it is? I love auto-correct, but this is driving me crazy. If it’s a bug, it can be fixed! Yay!
Hi Keith et al …
I’m on with this too. I LOVE autocorrect and don’t want to turn it off. However, occasionally something that I don’t want capitalised gets capitalised and I can’t backspace and say I didn’t want that or have a right-click/drop-down option to say undo autocorrect.
Is this something that is coming in the future?
All the best
Gilly
One way is not to backspace but to type on. Then re-position the cursor and you can make the change without having Big Brother slap your wrist. You will of course earn a wriggly red underscore as a spelling error, which you can fix for next time by adding to your own spellcheck list. Better than a right-click/drop-down option to say “undo autocorrect” would be a keyboard shortcut. This would be a godsend (please note developers) especially for fiction writers whose work is usually laced with place names (eg, Woodwark Bay gets turned into Woodwork Bay persistently) and intentional un-English to denote local pronunciations in dialogue (eg, “not gonna do it”). A keyboard shortcut would enable anticipating such anomalous spelling and save time getting past it before re-invoking autocorrect.
Sometimes, I just turn off autocorrect if I’m writing something with a lot of weird words.
Right-clicking and choosing “Learn Spelling” or “Ignore Spelling” on a word will cause it to stop auto-correcting to something different and will recognize it in the correction list (so other typos may get corrected to it, e.g. “Woodwarkk” would get corrected to “Woodwark”). Ctrl-Z (Undo) will undo the auto-correction or auto-capitalization.
Works for me.
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Yes! Thanks MM!
Ditto! Great quick fix. Thanks. 
My god HOW DO I TURN IT OFF??? (Auto correct, I mean.) I’m using 1.5.4 on OS X Lion.
I’m not sure about 1.5.4 but in the latest version it’s in Scrivener, Preferences, Corrections. There are all sorts of options there, including Auto-Capitalization, Fix capitalisation of sentences.
Yes, I was looking for something like that, but this panel of the preferences seems like the closest I can get, and there’s nothing about auto correct. I want it to “check spelling” (i.e., underline in red), I just often type notes and use informal abbreviations, and it really drives me crazy to have Scrivener decide that these “should” be something other than what I typed.
Hi, not having your version I’ll have to leave it for the Scrivener experts who will no doubt be online soon - they’re usually quick on the ball with help.
The only other place I know of for spelling/auto-correct is under Edit, Spelling and Grammar, Show Spelling and Grammar. I can’t access auto-correct from there on my version but perhaps it’s changed.
I’ll leave your question to the experts! That’s not me! :mrgreen:
Good luck!
Auto-correction was added automatically to Lion, so you need to go to System Preferences to turn it off, under the “Text” tab of “Language & Text”.
FYI, this is the Windows forum, so Mac-related questions will fare better over in the Mac Tech Support forum. 
Thanks! I never found that option before, hopefully that will do it.
(I ended up here because of a search for people talking about auto correct, never even noticed it was for Windows. Still, I think this has to be the answer!)
No problem, just a future reference sort of thing. Yeah, I was not a fan of Lion’s little “helpful” tool either, so I found that preference pretty quickly. 