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Where is Auto Text in Word 2007
I work at home and recently purchased windows vista. I use auto correct and
auto text a lot on my job. However, I can't figure out how to use auto text. I need to act the way it did in Word 2003 where you start to type something and the whole phrase appears and you just hit enter to insert it into the document. Is there such a thing anymore in Word 2007? I hope so because right now I'm still using my Word 2003 because I need this feature. It is a time saver and a money maker. Thanks in advance for your help and responses. -- Jenna |
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Where is Auto Text in Word 2007
Leastep91,
Those are called building blocks now. You can locate them clicking Insert - Text group - Quick Parts - Building Blocks Organizer. You can still use Alt+F3 to make one, just select the text and press Alt+F3. Or add a button to the quick access toolbar, Office Button - Word Options - Customize - All Commands - Create AutoText -- Luc Sanders MVP - PowerPoint "leastep91" schreef in bericht ... I work at home and recently purchased windows vista. I use auto correct and auto text a lot on my job. However, I can't figure out how to use auto text. I need to act the way it did in Word 2003 where you start to type something and the whole phrase appears and you just hit enter to insert it into the document. Is there such a thing anymore in Word 2007? I hope so because right now I'm still using my Word 2003 because I need this feature. It is a time saver and a money maker. Thanks in advance for your help and responses. -- Jenna |
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Where is Auto Text in Word 2007
As Luc indicates, autotext is still present, though it does not work in the
same manner. In particular, the autocomplete function is no longer available. You can either use logical and unique names for your autotext entries that you can remember then press F3 to complete them, or you can pick them from a list, or you can create toolbars that hold the entries, while you still have Word 2003, and save them in a template you can add in to Word - see http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm . I have one such toolbar in 2007 from which I pick from a variety of smileys. If you want anything more sophisticated, you might consider a third party approach. When corresponding in these forums, I have a large number of standard texts stored in GhostTyper XML. This will work in all applications that accept keyboard input. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Autocorrect still works as before. leastep91 wrote: I work at home and recently purchased windows vista. I use auto correct and auto text a lot on my job. However, I can't figure out how to use auto text. I need to act the way it did in Word 2003 where you start to type something and the whole phrase appears and you just hit enter to insert it into the document. Is there such a thing anymore in Word 2007? I hope so because right now I'm still using my Word 2003 because I need this feature. It is a time saver and a money maker. Thanks in advance for your help and responses. |
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Where is Auto Text in Word 2007
AutoComplete is no longer supported for AutoText/building blocks. But you can
type the name of the AutoText entry and then press F3 to insert it. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "leastep91" wrote: I work at home and recently purchased windows vista. I use auto correct and auto text a lot on my job. However, I can't figure out how to use auto text. I need to act the way it did in Word 2003 where you start to type something and the whole phrase appears and you just hit enter to insert it into the document. Is there such a thing anymore in Word 2007? I hope so because right now I'm still using my Word 2003 because I need this feature. It is a time saver and a money maker. Thanks in advance for your help and responses. -- Jenna |
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Oh, No! It takes me longer to do this than in Word 2003. It looks like I'm
stuck with using the older version of Word with my job. Whatever happened to "if it's not broken don't fix it". Why couldn't they leave a good thing alone. I can't believe we don't have that option anymore. Thanks for your replies. Now, I know I can stop looking for the answer as I got one here. "Luc" wrote: Leastep91, Those are called building blocks now. You can locate them clicking Insert - Text group - Quick Parts - Building Blocks Organizer. You can still use Alt+F3 to make one, just select the text and press Alt+F3. Or add a button to the quick access toolbar, Office Button - Word Options - Customize - All Commands - Create AutoText -- Luc Sanders MVP - PowerPoint "leastep91" schreef in bericht ... I work at home and recently purchased windows vista. I use auto correct and auto text a lot on my job. However, I can't figure out how to use auto text. I need to act the way it did in Word 2003 where you start to type something and the whole phrase appears and you just hit enter to insert it into the document. Is there such a thing anymore in Word 2007? I hope so because right now I'm still using my Word 2003 because I need this feature. It is a time saver and a money maker. Thanks in advance for your help and responses. -- Jenna |
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Luc,
I used about 100 auto text entries in 2003 for my reports. I did as you suggested in your comment below and got all of them into the Building Blocks Organizer. The only thing is now when I use the Insert, Quick Parts I get all 100 of them. Does this mean that I should the Alt+F3 for each line item to generate a "drop down list" in the Quick Parts? Thank you for your assistance. Randy "Luc" wrote: Leastep91, Those are called building blocks now. You can locate them clicking Insert - Text group - Quick Parts - Building Blocks Organizer. You can still use Alt+F3 to make one, just select the text and press Alt+F3. Or add a button to the quick access toolbar, Office Button - Word Options - Customize - All Commands - Create AutoText -- Luc Sanders MVP - PowerPoint "leastep91" schreef in bericht ... I work at home and recently purchased windows vista. I use auto correct and auto text a lot on my job. However, I can't figure out how to use auto text. I need to act the way it did in Word 2003 where you start to type something and the whole phrase appears and you just hit enter to insert it into the document. Is there such a thing anymore in Word 2007? I hope so because right now I'm still using my Word 2003 because I need this feature. It is a time saver and a money maker. Thanks in advance for your help and responses. -- Jenna |
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Where is Auto Text in Word 2007
Autotext works much the same as before except that it doesn't have the
autocomplete tip. You can type the first four characters (provided they are unique - otherwise enter more) and then press F3 to complete the entry. The building blocks list can be made alphabetical by clicking its header. You can add the building blocks organizer to the QAT. You can probably assemble sets of autotext entries on Word 2003 toolbars (given that you still have 2003) and add them to the add-ins tab - see http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org leastep91 wrote: Oh, No! It takes me longer to do this than in Word 2003. It looks like I'm stuck with using the older version of Word with my job. Whatever happened to "if it's not broken don't fix it". Why couldn't they leave a good thing alone. I can't believe we don't have that option anymore. Thanks for your replies. Now, I know I can stop looking for the answer as I got one here. "Luc" wrote: Leastep91, Those are called building blocks now. You can locate them clicking Insert - Text group - Quick Parts - Building Blocks Organizer. You can still use Alt+F3 to make one, just select the text and press Alt+F3. Or add a button to the quick access toolbar, Office Button - Word Options - Customize - All Commands - Create AutoText -- Luc Sanders MVP - PowerPoint "leastep91" schreef in bericht ... I work at home and recently purchased windows vista. I use auto correct and auto text a lot on my job. However, I can't figure out how to use auto text. I need to act the way it did in Word 2003 where you start to type something and the whole phrase appears and you just hit enter to insert it into the document. Is there such a thing anymore in Word 2007? I hope so because right now I'm still using my Word 2003 because I need this feature. It is a time saver and a money maker. Thanks in advance for your help and responses. -- Jenna |
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If the Building Blocks you created can be organized you can assign groups of
them to one of the Custom galleries and then add the gallery to your QAT. For example if you have a group of signatures those can be displayed in their own gallery. I'm not sure how your reports are created, but if you select from a few choices of content in specific locations in your report then you can use a Building Block Content Control. These are drop down list of choices of BB that are placed in the document. So for example if in say, Section B of your report you use one of 4 choices then the BB content control can provide those choices. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Randy" wrote in message ... Luc, I used about 100 auto text entries in 2003 for my reports. I did as you suggested in your comment below and got all of them into the Building Blocks Organizer. The only thing is now when I use the Insert, Quick Parts I get all 100 of them. Does this mean that I should the Alt+F3 for each line item to generate a "drop down list" in the Quick Parts? Thank you for your assistance. Randy "Luc" wrote: Leastep91, Those are called building blocks now. You can locate them clicking Insert - Text group - Quick Parts - Building Blocks Organizer. You can still use Alt+F3 to make one, just select the text and press Alt+F3. Or add a button to the quick access toolbar, Office Button - Word Options - Customize - All Commands - Create AutoText -- Luc Sanders MVP - PowerPoint "leastep91" schreef in bericht ... I work at home and recently purchased windows vista. I use auto correct and auto text a lot on my job. However, I can't figure out how to use auto text. I need to act the way it did in Word 2003 where you start to type something and the whole phrase appears and you just hit enter to insert it into the document. Is there such a thing anymore in Word 2007? I hope so because right now I'm still using my Word 2003 because I need this feature. It is a time saver and a money maker. Thanks in advance for your help and responses. -- Jenna |
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