Hi, I’m new here and sorry for launching straight in with a problem, but I am really fed up with this issue and hope someone can help me out.

Does anyone else have this problem? I am a pretty lousy typist and make regular errors with clumsy fingers. So, I spend hours putting my most common mistakes into Proofing tools, autocorrect options – things like I;m and Im to automatically change to I’m, and so on. Things seem to be fine for a month or so and then suddenly, out of the blue, they’ve all gone and I am back to square one.

At the same time, my custom dictionary seems to get wiped out and unusual names of which there are many (I live in Greece and have a blog so Symi, Yilaos, Horio, place names etc.) are no longer recognised and have to be ‘add to dictionary’ again. Theta’s not so time consuming but to lose the customer autocorrect every few weeks is a pain in the asp.

I wondered if it might be automatic updates wiping out my customs, so that’s now switched off and I’ll see if things improve.

But if anyone knows what causes this I’d really like to know so I can avoid it happening in the future.

I am on Word 2013, (Office 365) so it’s a real copy, and on ‘Windows 8.1 with Bing’ (whoever he is) 64 bit OS x64 based processor.

Thank you!

James