Ok, I’m not sure if anyone else has had this problem, i searched and didn’t come up with anything, so here goes.
I do like autocorrect, and I can add my own words, but some really strange autocorrects pop up. Specifically relating to a and as. So when I write a word like want, it autocorrects to wasnt, then says it’s wrong.
When I write wait, to autocorrects to wasit. It seems to put an ‘as’ where I want an ‘a’, no matter what the word. So I have to go through and manually add the corrections to the autocorrect to change it back to my original, proper spelling.
Does anyone else have this issue? Is it a bug? Is there a fix? Because it’s getting pretty frustrating.
Just a wild guess : have a look and see if you don’t have Window’s autocorrect competing Scrivener’s.
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That is very strange! Vincent’s wild guess is a good one, but I’m not aware that Windows has a global autocorrect that could conflict with the autocorrect of an individual program like Scrivener. The autocorrect in Word can apply to other office applications (at least I think that’s the case) but it doesn’t see what’s being typed in other apps like Scrivener or the Chrome browser.
Well what do you know - I’ve got that in my Windows, too! 
And most of the settings are enabled! But I never see any evidence of them working, such as the strange conflicts that the OP is asking about… unless I just don’t notice? Some of the settings are specifically for the hardware keyboard, others for the “software keyboard” that comes up in tablet mode on my Surface Pro, but I never use that.
Hmmm… nevermind… 
In your Corrections you must have one that ‘corrects’ “a” to “as” and does that everywhere it sees an opportunity.
Check the list in File > Options > Corrections to find the culprit.
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Yes, AntoniDol is correct – I had the same weird stuff going on after I discovered the autocorrect feature. I added a few common misspellings to it and later found it doesn’t work like I thought, and started messing up words spelled correctly. The reason is that it doesn’t work solely on whole words. So if you set “ta” to become “at” every time you type “ta,” as in, say, “table,” autocorrect will change it to “at” as soon as you type the “b” in table, which comes right after “ta” – autocorrect sees “ta” and right away switches it to at, without waiting for the word to finish.
This is sort of a buggy feature, and Scrivener should either only auto-correct whole words, or at least let you indicate (in your auto-correct list) whether you want it to always change, or only at whole words.
As AntoniDol says, it’s under ‘Options/Corrections’ – look for the “Edit Substitutions” button (at least that’s what it’s called in the old version 1, which I use)
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