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Charles Kenyon
 
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Default glossary macro in Word?

Probably an underscore would work better than a dash although it involves an
extra keystroke in holding down the shift key. lat_ and hc_

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Look into the AutoTextList field. You could save such a field, itself, as
an AutoText or AutoCorrect entry and attach it to a keyboard shortcut. See
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/TblsFl...toTextList.htm.

You may want to download the AutoTextLoader utility by Jay Freedman.
You can get it at http://jay-freedman.info/autotextloader2.zip.

If you can get your current macro results into a two-column table (name
and result) in Word, this utility will convert it to AutoText entries.

You want your AutoText entries to have names that (1) you are not likely
to type by accident or when typing regular text, and (2) are at least four
letters long. For instance you could start your latin phrase entries with
the prefix lat- and your high court entries with hc-

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