Turn on text suggestions in Windows to quickly complete challenging words and continue working efficiently. As you type, suggestions appear above your cursor, and you can easily select the one you want. Words are predicted based upon your spelling; as you type more letters, new and more accurate suggestions appear.

  1. Select Start > Settings. Alternatively, press Windows logo key+I to open Windows settings.

  2. In Windows settings, select Win11 Time and language button icon. Time & language.

  3. In the Time & language menu, select Win11 Typing button icon. ​​​​​​​Typing.

  4. In the Typing menu, turn on the Show text suggestions when typing on the physical keyboard switch. This enables text suggestions when you're typing on a physical keyboard.

    Win11 Show text suggests for phycal keyboard screenshot.
  5. If you want to use text prediction in several languages, turn on the Multilingual text suggestions switch.

  6. After updating the settings, try typing, for example, a chat message in Microsoft Teams, a document in Word, or a comment to a blog post in your web browser. Suggested words appear as you type.

    Text prediction in Outlook activated in Windows 11.
  7. To insert a suggestion, do one of the following:

    • Select it with your mouse, or with touch (if your PC supports it).

    • Press the Up arrow key, use the Left and Right arrow keys to navigate to the suggestion you want, then press Enter to select.

    To dismiss the suggestions without inserting any of them, click outside the suggestions window, or press Esc.

See also

Accessibility support for Windows

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