Microsoft Word 2021 Auto-Complete feature quit working for me in Windows 11

Rumpl said:

Here is what Word 2021 used to do before I had to have a new hard drive installed and Windows 11 re-installed. I also re-installed Microsoft Office 2021 Professional Plus. After the repairs, Word 2021 Auto-complete stopped working. I checked my settings and AutoComplete is still checked.

1. Open Word and select New Document.
2. In the new document, I start typing the current day of the week (today is Sunday, for example) so I type Sun
3. As I begin typing the name of the day, the auto-complete feature should present a "tool-tip" very close to the text cursor within Word 2021. The tool-tip is the completed name of the day you are typing. You can press the ENTER key to acknowledge the tool-tip, which tells Word to complete the word you are typing with the text in the tool-tip. Therefore, Sunday will be auto-completed.
4. If you follow the name of the day with a comma (regardless of if you accepted the auto-complete), the auto-complete feature should present another tool-tip with the full current date. (Example: September 4, 2022) I can press the ENTER key to acknowledge the tool-tip, causing Word to enter the full date as if I had typed it.

Any ideas on how to fix the problem will be appreciated.

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Wynona said:

it looks to me like you may have the subscription to Microsoft Office 2021

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glasskuter said:

No, I have 2021 Pro Plus

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Rumpl said:

To clarify, I have the stand-alone version of Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2021. I do not have the subscription. Also, when it worked, the prompt I got said "Press Enter to auto-complete". Perhaps pressing the TAB key would have worked also.

This is not a "show stopper" issue for me; it is just something that used to work properly and now it doesn't.

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Kim Parker said:

Not sure how to start a new thread, so this is the closest I found. I was trying to see if I could put a sort of Excel comment into Word. I sort of did so the first time, but after that it eluded me. The first (successful) result looked just like a regular word. Double click and it opened a notepad file with info and a scroll bar if it didn't fit the page. Click outside and it went back to the word.

I loaded the notepad file as "object". I was able to use the crop tool to get the icon out. I renamed to the word I used to click on. As I couldn't get it to drag anywhere, I cut and pasted into a text box. Had to zero all margins, and the end result looked just like a regular word. I think I used the crop tool to make the word fit properly next to all the regular text words.

So, I tried again, but didn't get anywhere. I can double click to open, and it does even with a Wordpad text and picture.

However, even though I have zeroed the margins and position, there is still a very large gap for the Object bounding box. Worse yet, I can somewhat make the object inside a textbox smaller. It opens fine but if I open it again it doubles in size compared to what I had, and looks really bad.

The first try was so great, don't know why I couldn't do it again. This also worked in Excel with the first try. The next ones opened in Excel but had the same problems as in Word.

Anyone have any ideas?

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Kim Parker said:

Edited to add, I am finding the Insert Object works much better in Excel. If Microsoft could make the Object icon blank in a textbox, we could put any word in there we want and able to drag and drop anywhere we want. Just think - with this we can have multiple comments in Word. I use Excel for my ancestry projects. With multiple sheets in a workbook I can keep my research in there and never lose it again. And with the Object trick, I can insert into Excel, leave the size as is, then double click to open. Everything is at my fingertips. I can keep web links in an Excel sheet, put pictures of each family into different workbooks. No limit to what Excel can do. If MS would only make it more text friendly.

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