In article <MPG.3ed4494c31ee6e22989a63@news.eternal-september.org>, Philip Herlihy wrote...

(I haven't found a good Excel group, and I know no more knowledgeable group than this one!)

I have a friend whose surname is "Alway". As I'm putting together a mailing list, I found myself typing that into Excel. It corrects it to "Always" - whatever I do; there is no pop-up options dialogue. In the end, I typed =LEFT
("Always", 5), copied that, and then pasted values. Is this just a bug? (Excel 2013)

The Autocorrect options contain a (long) list of what are supposedly common mis-spellings, and it's in there. What I found surprising is that it corrects it even when typing a string parameter to a function (as in the above example).

Sorry for the distraction - carry on, troops...

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Phil, London

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