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I installed Outlook 2013 without installing any* other Microsoft Office products and was noticing that the AutoCorrect feature was not behaving like I had remembered it. So, I went to see what had changed in the AutoCorrect options (File > Options > Mail > Editor Options... > Proofing > AutoCorrect Options...) and found that I could only view the first tab and could only modify the Replace text as you type section.

*: Of course the installation came with a few additional pieces of software I neither wanted nor needed.

Outlook AutoCorrect options disabled

Which setting do I need to change to enable access to these options?

palswim
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  • Specifically, [the enabling of the Smart Quotes feature](https://superuser.com/q/384329/45163) drove me to this investigation. – palswim Oct 17 '17 at 17:14

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From a discussion on a Microsoft forum, the folder with your Outlook executable has to also contain a Word executable. From another system with Microsoft Word 2010 on it, and I copied the WINWORD.EXE file (%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Office\Office14\WINWORD.EXE) from that system to the system in question.

Though I didn't try this with any other version of Word, but I would guess any version of the Word executable from 2007-2016 would suffice to enable these options.

palswim
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    I can understand that Outlook uses the Word AutoCorrect logic, but that it doesn't come in a shared library, but requires the executable itself baffles me. – palswim Oct 17 '17 at 17:15