Predictive Text Outlook 2016

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Besides Office 365, Outlook will also get predictive text. Once the users start writing on the document, the application will predict the words. Users just have to press the 'Tab' button to. Microsoft SMS: This add-in brings Outlook messaging to your mobile phone. You can send texts from your Outlook email via mobile, message entire groups and even save text messages as email drafts. Note, only works with Outlook 2010 or older. Microsoft removed the feature in Outlook 2013 and later. Microsoft is adapting one of the more interesting features of Gmail, predictive text, and bringing it to the online version of Outlook. Recently, Microsoft updated its publicly available Microsoft.

Summary :

Predictive text is a welcomed feature that can help you correct the spelling mistakes when typing. If you are using Windows 10, you can refer to this post to learn how to enable text prediction in Windows 10? For more tips and tricks, you can visit MiniTool home page.

What Is Predictive Text?

Text Prediction is a built-in feature in any OS. It can not only save time for you but also consider your spelling mistakes that may embarrass you on a special public place.

  1. Turn off text predictions At the top of the page, select Settings View all Outlook settings Mail Compose and reply. Under Text predictions, clear the Suggest words or phrases as I type check box.
  2. Oct 02, 2020 Text predictions will type for you in Outlook and Word. Word and Outlook are getting a new text prediction feature which suggests the rest of a sentence and phrase as you type. It’s like an advanced form of autocomplete that appears in browsers. As you type, the rest of a word or more will appear in light gray. Source: Microsoft.

Windows 10 also has this kind of predictive text feature. But previously, you could only use this feature to the software keyboard that was largely used on Windows Tablets. Since Windows 10 version 1803, you are allowed to enable text prediction for hardware keyboard in Windows 10

In the following content, we will walk you through how to enable text prediction Windows 10. If you need to turn off predictive text Windows 10, you can also find a guide here.

How to Manage Text Prediction Windows 10

How to Enable Text Prediction in Windows 10

To enable predictive text in Windows 10, you can follow these steps:

  1. Press Start.
  2. Go to Settings > Devices > Typing.
  3. Scroll the mouse to the Hardware keyboard.
  4. Turn on both Show text suggestion as I type and Autocorrect misspelled words I type.

If you want to turn off predictive text Windows 10, you can repeat step 1 to step 3 and then turn off Show text suggestion as I type. The Autocorrect misspelled words I type option will be turned off automatically.

How Does Predictive Text Work?

The predictive text can only work in Windows 10 apps, like Microsoft Edge, Notepad, etc. It will not work on the third-party apps like Google Chrome.

Tip: If you delete your Notepad files by mistake, you can use a dedicated data recovery software to get them back. MiniTool Power Data Recovery is a good choice.

When you start typing in the supported app, you can see the spell suggestions pop up with a maximum of three or four words. If the word you want to type is included in the suggestion, you can use the arrow up and arrow left & left keys to select that word. Then, you need to hit space to select one from the suggestions to complete a word.

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However, if you are not entangled in the exact words of English, you can turn off the Autocorrect misspelled words I type option.

Not supporting all applications in Windows 10 is a huge drawback. Especially many of you are using Google Chrome as the main web browser. But, Microsoft Edge, a chromium-based web browser, has been released to the public this year. We believe it will have more and more users in the future. That is, you should not worry about the predictive text issue on web browser.

Microsoft Edge Windows 10 is officially now. Read this post to learn how to download and install it on your Windows 10 device.

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Does Predictive Text Work with Every Language?

According to the saying from Microsoft, the predictive text can only work with English US. However, in practice, it can work with the languages that are supported for the software-based keyboard on Windows 10.

Currently, these languages include Assamese, Bashkir, Belarusian, Greenlandic, Hawaiian, Icelandic, Igbo, Irish, Kyrgyz, Luxembourgish, Maltese, Maori, Mongolian, Nepali, Pashto, Sakha, Tajik, Tatar, Tswana, Turkmen, Urdu, Uyghur, Welsh, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu.

How to Enable Multilingual Text Suggestions

It is very easy to use software keyboard to switch between two languages. On the other hand, Microsoft has offered you another feature: Multilingual text prediction. You can also call it Multilingual text suggestions. This feature can also work with the hardware keyboard.

When this feature is enabled, if you are typing in more than one Latin script languages, the text prediction feature can work.

You can follow these steps to enable Multilingual text suggestions.

  1. Press Start.
  2. Go to Settings > Devices >Typing.
  3. Switch to the Multilingual text suggestions.
  4. Turn on the Show text predictions based on the recognized languages you’re typing in.

I’m quite a fervent user of templates such as Quick Parts and AutoText, however, I have a feeling that something is missing.

I seem to recall that when I for instance typed my name “Jane Doe”, after typing Jane I just hit the ENTER key and it automatically typed out Doe for me. The same with my address, I just typed the number of my street and it automatically completed it.

Did I somehow turn off this feature? How do I get it back?

AutoCompleting Quick Parts in Outlook and Word 2007, 2010 and 2013 can’t be done with the “Press ENTER to Insert” pop-up suggestion. However, there is another way to quickly insert Quick Parts by their name and pressing F3 in these versions.

The pop-up suggestion feature has been reinstated in Outlook 2016 and also supports the F3 method as explained below.


AutoComplete for Quick Parts is back again but you can also still use F3.

AutoText becomes Quick Parts

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In Outlook and Word 2003, there was an AutoComplete feature for AutoText entries that worked with a pop-up suggestion similarly as displayed above.

In Outlook and Word 2007, 2010 and 2013, to AutoComplete a Quick Part, you’ll have to press F3 when typing the name of your saved Quick Part and there is no more pop-up suggestion.


The name of a Quick Part is important to AutoComplete it.

Inserting Quick Parts by name by using F3

In most cases, it is not needed to type the entire name of the Quick Part. You only have to type the part of the name until it becomes unique when compared to other names of your Quick Part.

Example
Assume you have 3 Quick Part entries named;

  • Regards
  • Thanks for your feedback
  • Thank you

To insert the Quick Part named…

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  • “Regards”, you can just type the letter “r” and press F3 to insert the entire Quick Part.
  • “Thanks for your feedback”, you must at least type “thanks” before pressing F3 to insert the Quick Part.
  • “Thank you”, you must at least type “thank “ before pressing F3 will AutoComplete the Quick Part (note the space behind “thank”).

Pop-up suggestion in Outlook 2016

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As mentioned already, the “Press ENTER to Insert” pop-up suggestion has returned in Outlook 2016.

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The conditions to when you are being offered this pop-up is similar to the F3 method; As soon as you have typed the part of the name until it becomes unique, the pop-up will show and you can just press ENTER.

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Note: More tips and tricks about working with message templates, such as AutoText and Quick Parts, for either version of Outlook can be found in the guide Working with message templates.