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On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 17:29:03 -0700, Norm Y Norm
wrote:

I am typing a quasi legal document and used the letters P for Plaintif and D
for Defendent. Is there a way to automatically convert them to the full word
?

Not with the single letters -- or else *every* P in the document would
be changed to Plaintiff and every D would be changed to Defendant (and
I hope you spell them correctly in your documents).

If you choose a unique two-character abbreviation for each word, you
can use them as the names of AutoCorrect entries. For example, you
could use /p for Plaintiff and /d for Defendant.

To make an AutoCorrect entry, type the expanded word in the document,
select it, go to Tools AutoCorrect Options, and enter the
abbreviation in the Replace box.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org