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Autocorrect
A long time ago, I made a copy of this entry on a What's new? page. We eventually got spell-check, and then quite recently the ability (by virtue of edge://flags/#win-use-native-spellchecker) t...
I don't remember Edge ever promising to bring auto-correct feature to Edge.
I took the text of the Known issue reproduced above to indicate that autocorrect would be implemented sooner or later.
Let's try teh autocorrect in tihs reply, using chicago and london as test words, including some of the obvious ones like abbout and acommodate.
There we have common typos and misspellings as well as capitalization errors which aren't autocorrected, even though the 'right' ones are available on right-clcick and as suggestions.
I'm really most interested in using autocorrect to expand abbreviations for commonly-used terms, like sgcc, which I have entered into the Windows ACL as South Gloucestershire County Council. It takes me ages to type that correctly.
This works everywhere else I've tried, including Legacy Edge.
You expect Edge to auto correct them or Windows? because Edge isn't supposed to have an auto correct on its own.