Hi Alan,

This is very
unhelpful for those of us who edit by typing in the middle of whereever we
were, such that the insertion point is often right in front of old text that
I might or might not be using anymore.

About all I can suggest would be either

1. Create a macro that just gets everything to the left of the cursor, up to a
space, then inserts a matching AutoText entry

or

2. press Ctrl+Delete before pressing F3 in order to delete all text to the
right of the cursor, up to the next space

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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