Yes, it works the same way -- the Building Block insertion by F3
doesn't pay any attention to the current story.
If you try the same "Alphabet" (or one of the others in which the
cover page contains a graphic) in a textbox, you get an error message
that "You cannot put drawing objects into a textbox, callout, comment,
footnote, or endnote". But if you choose an all-text one, such as
"Annual", it will happily jam a cover page into a textbox, or a
footnote....
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On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:39:40 +0100, "Tony Jollans" My forename at my
surname dot com wrote:
Whoops! I hadn't come across that one; thank you, Jay.
Unfortunately I have had to do another mercy dash to my parents and don't
have 2007 here but it sounds like a good avenue for investigation. Will it
insert cover pages in other stories in the same way?
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Tony
"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
.. .
True, and that design decision made possible the following idiocy:
Under the name "Alphabet" (for one of several examples) there are a
cover page, a header, a footer, and several other Building Blocks. If
you put the cursor in the header pane, type Alphabet, and press F3,
Word inserts the cover page Building Block in the header because
"cover page" is alphabetically (!) before "header". :-b
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On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:08:29 +0100, "Tony Jollans" My forename at my
surname dot com wrote:
The question as to what the AutoComplete prompt might say and what might
get
inserted when Enter is pressed, is the same question as regards what gets
inserted when you press F3 without a prompt, and has already been
addressed.
I haven't done exhaustive tests but it appears that, when there is a
conflict, Building Block types are processed built-in types first, in
alphabetic order, followed by custom types, again in alphabetic order.
Luckily AutoText comes first in this sequence.
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"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
I'm not sure I followed all the arguments, but the sticking point seems
to
be that several kinds of Building Blocks (cover page, header, footer,
pull
quote, etc.) can all have the same name; the program keeps them separate
by putting them in different galleries. The devs said "if you type one
of
those names, and we show the AutoComplete prompt, what should be
inserted
when you press Enter?"
My suggestion would be to display and respond to AutoComplete _only_ for
AutoText items, and not show it for any other kind of Building Block.
The
program handles a lot of logic more complicated than that.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
The stated reason is that, now that AutoText entries are "Building
Blocks" (aka "Quick Parts"), AutoComplete would necessarily affect
the rest of these as well, and they include many cover sheets, TOCs,
etc., that begin with the same letters. I don't see how that would
really be a problem, since AutoComplete would never fire for them,
but MS is aware of the problem (user dissatisfaction) and may take
steps to "fix" it.
"Opinicus" wrote in message
...
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote
As Bob points out, we are just users and had no input into this
decision, but note that you can still insert the AutoText as before
by typing the first four characters of the unique entry name and
pressing F3 instead of Enter or Tab.
Far be it from me to praise the new incarnation of Word but I think
I know the reason for this particular decision. If you enter the
first letters of an autotext in a table and hit return, Word XP will
crash under some circumstances. I got bitten twice by this nasty
little "gotcha" today alone.
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