{"id":7781,"date":"2015-02-17T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/heyscriptingguy\/2015\/02\/17\/powertip-use-powershell-to-list-word-autocorrect-entries\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:30:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:30:35","slug":"powertip-use-powershell-to-list-word-autocorrect-entries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/powertip-use-powershell-to-list-word-autocorrect-entries\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerTip: Use PowerShell to List Word Autocorrect Entries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"font-size:12px\">Summary<\/b><span style=\"font-size:12px\">: Use Windows PowerShell to list autocorrect entries for Microsoft Word.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/q-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Question\" \/>&nbsp;Microsoft Word keeps messing up what I type, and I suspect it could be an autocorrect issue. How can I use <br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Windows PowerShell to list all the entries in Microsoft Word autocorrect?<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/a-for-powertip.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Scripting Guy! Answer\" \/>&nbsp;Use the&nbsp;<b>New-Object<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet to create an instance of the Word.Application object. Look at&nbsp;<b>autocorrect<br \/><\/b>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;and&nbsp;<b>Entries<\/b>, then pipe the results to the&nbsp;<b>Format-Table<\/b>&nbsp;cmdlet, and look at&nbsp;<b>Name<\/b>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<b>Value<\/b>&nbsp;properties:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:120px\">(New-Object -ComObject word.application).autocorrect.entries | ft name, value<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:30px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/02\/7610.Dr.ScriptoForTips.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to list autocorrect entries for Microsoft Word. &nbsp;Microsoft Word keeps messing up what I type, and I suspect it could be an autocorrect issue. How can I use &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Windows PowerShell to list all the entries in Microsoft Word autocorrect? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;New-Object&nbsp;cmdlet to create an instance of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":87096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[49,356,3,45,360],"class_list":["post-7781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scripting","tag-office","tag-powertip","tag-scripting-guy","tag-windows-powershell","tag-word"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to list autocorrect entries for Microsoft Word. &nbsp;Microsoft Word keeps messing up what I type, and I suspect it could be an autocorrect issue. How can I use &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Windows PowerShell to list all the entries in Microsoft Word autocorrect? &nbsp;Use the&nbsp;New-Object&nbsp;cmdlet to create an instance of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/scripting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}