How to use autocorrect in Google Docs as you type

Since the beginning of this year, Google has introduced an important tool in its Google Docs or Google Documents. This is the grammar correction suggestions A step that goes beyond the spelling correction that was already included in this document tool for seven years. A change that should not go unnoticed since it is not only corrected when there is an error, but it is also suggested before finishing typing to avoid that errorYou know how it works? Do you want to apply it to your documents to avoid errors while you write? Well, keep reading.

Automatic Spell Check

The key is to have G Suite And it is that Google has included this function only in the professional scope of its tool. At least for now. If you are a worker with G Suite, the truth is that you will not have to do anything special. Everything is enabled by default and integrated into the experience you already know to make it convenient, fast, and direct. And it is that you only have to write so that the suggestions appear automatically. If you avoid them, for whatever reason, nothing will happen. In fact, Google's autocorrect is maintained a posteriori. Of course, this time pointing out grammatical errors in blue, and not in the classic red color.

Why it is underlined in blue

Even more interesting is the new autocorrect system that Google has been developing. They have just released it for the G Suite package, that is, for the work environment. So you have to pay for this service if you want to use it.

Like spell checking, it checks that everything is spelled correctly. Of course, in this case, when it detects a verbal tense error or a bad spelling, it can display the content underlined in color blue and not red. In this way it offers correct suggestions for these broader expressions.

Just hover your mouse over it to see the suggestion offered by Google. An option that is supposed to be more correct thanks to all the work behind this fix. Which is not little. And it is that beyond knowing if a word has been misspelled, what this new system does is use neural networks as if it were translating a sentence. Something that helps to investigate what is meant and the correct way to say it with arduous and automated parallel thinking and analysis work. And also smart. And it is that he has been trained with various methods to find errors and know the correct way to express himself.

Non-automatic corrections

Google Docs spell checkers are built-in and active out of the box in any blank document you launch on this service. Even if you don't participate in G Suite. In other words, you just have to enter and start writing for Google to do all the work. As in other platforms such as Word, any grammatical error is marked with a red underlined Enough to know that something is wrong with that word.

If we want to know what happens with it, all we have to do is click on this marked word with the right button or with a long press if necessary we do from mobile. This will cause a popup window to appear with the correct suggestion for that word.Either because it is missing a tilde, because it is misspelled or because it is not the corresponding tense. We just have to click on the suggestion to replace it in the text with the wrong word and that's it.

Review suggested changes

Although Google Docs autocorrect and spell check are enabled by default, there is a way to fully proofread your document before sending it. It is enough to have all the text written and navigate to the screen Tools In this menu we find the function See suggested changesIf there are corrections or autocorrections that you should review, the text will point them out and a pop-up window will allow you to make decisions with each of these changes.

This way you can do a thorough review before closing the document. Something that will make no tense or expression misspelled in it.A real help so that your text is professional and does not show grammatical errors of any kind An issue that is now supported by artificial intelligence taught to detect more of these problems and , consequently, better correct your texts.