[AuntB]

How can I place a macro in autocorrect? I use to do this at my previous
employment but I cannot remember how. Ex.: If I want to make my macro AltB
(bold) easier to place in the document (instead of hitting the Alt and then
the B), I can put the macro in autocorrect somehow and use like "bb" for the
AltB.

[Charles Kenyon]

There is no such method. Are you perhaps thinking a different Word
Processing program?

Why would you have a macro for bold? Ctrl-B already is a bold command?

I don't know if the following will be useful to you but am sending it in
case it is:

Here is some general info on moving from Word Perfect to Word:

Word and Word Perfect work very differently from one another. Each program's
methods have strengths and weaknesses; but, if you try to use one of these
programs as if it were the other, it is like pushing on a string! You can
easily make a lot of extra work for yourself. In the (short) long term
(weeks rather than years) spending the time to learn Word will save you time
if you are spending any time at all (more than an hour a day) using Word.

See http://www.addbalance.com/word/wordperfect.htm
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...ordPerfect.htm
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...AndGotchas.htm
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/RevealCodes.htm
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...Converters.htm
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/conc...ion/index.html
for information on Word for Word Perfect users.

For mo
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Custom...platePart2.htm
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Custom...platePart1.htm
http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/bull...olbullets.html
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Number...gExplained.htm
http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Custom...latesStore.htm


Function Keys

In Word 2000 (or later) You can get the function keys to display in a
special toolbar at the bottom of the screen if you want (something like
pressing F3 twice in WP). The following macro will do this.
Sub ShowMeFunctionKeys()
Commandbars("Function Key Display").Visible = True
End Sub

Word's Extend key (F8) gives something similar to block processing.


Formatting and Styles

Learn about Styles - really learn!
http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm I resisted for years and now
regret every day of those years because although that string was still very
hard to push, it kept getting longer and longer, and had some very important
projects tied to it! Once you understand styles and the Word concept of
organizing things into Chinese boxes everything falls into place and instead
of pushing a string, you can push a button that turns on the very powerful
text processing machine known as Microsoft Word and it will start doing your
work for you instead of running around behind you trying to undo what you
just thought you did.


Converting documents Word / Word Perfect

Some special characters in Word Perfect documents don't convert well to
Word. There is a macro to assist with this described at
http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/...html#macroword and can be found
at http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/WPSymbolConv.bas.
This was prepared by Edward Mendelson.
Otherwise, look at the macro from http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=212396
Use these on _copies_!

As for converting documents from Word Perfect to _use_ in Word... In a word,
don't plan on it. I would not recommend using converted documents long-term.
They will be filled with formatting anomolies that will get you at the worst
time. This is especially true of any documents containing automatic
numbering or bullets. Try recreating form documents in Word using the
following process:
In Word Perfect (if you still have it, in Word if not) save your files as
text files.
Use your converted files as references to show you how you want your
formatting to look.
Create a new document in Word and insert the text from the text file. Save
this new document as a Word template. Format it the way you want using
styles, not direct formatting. Save it again.
To use a template within Word, use File = New and pick your template. This
will create a new document for you.

Merge documents have special problems and should be recreated from text
files or retyped in Word. To convert data files, consider generating labels
in WP as a document, converting that to Word, and then using
http://www.gmayor.com/convert_labels...mail_merge.htm to get a new Word
data file.

Note that conversions usually do create documents that look passable and
print OK; the problems I'm referring to have to do with editing / making
changes, that is, using the documents long-term. (See below on reusing
documents vs. using templates.)

Conversion back to Word Perfect: There is a problem (in addition to the ones
mentioned for conversion _to_ Word) with Version 2002 (XP) and later of
Word. The conversion file only works for conversion _to_ Word, not from Word
to Word Perfect! Earlier versions went both ways. To fix this, you need to
find the old conversion file WPFT532.CNV from a Word 97 or Word 2000
installation and copy it to your new installation, replacing the file of the
same name. Note, the change making the file one-way was done as a security
measure. While I don't know of any problems the old file causes, keep the
new installation's file somewhere as a backup just in case.


Menus and AutoFormat as you type

Turn off the adaptive menus (display full menus all the time). This is under
Tools Customize Options. Also, I recommend that under Tools
AutoCorrect Options AutoFormat as you type that all options under "Apply
as you type" and "Automatically as you type" be turned off.


Boilerplate and Forms

In WP a lot of people use macros to hold chunks of text - boilerplate. In
Word this function is filled by Templates, AutoText and AutoCorrect, not
macros. Follow the links at
http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebre...s.htm#AutoText for more
information on these tools.

You can use FILLIN and ASK fields or UserForms to query the user. For more
about online forms, follow the links at
http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms or
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm especially Dian
Chapman's series of articles. You may also want to look at
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...nesInForms.htm.



Letterhead

How to set up letterhead or some other document where you want one header
(or no header) on the first page and a different header on other pages.
http://www.addbalance.com/word/headersfooters.htm This gives step-by-step
instructions. (This page also has the following links)

Some other pages to look at:

Letterhead Tips and Instructions
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Letterhead.htm

Letterhead Textboxes and Styles tutorial
http://addbalance.com/word/download....StylesTutorial
(for simulating different margins on different pages, among other things)



Reusing Documents vs. Using templates

General practice in WP is to have a document and copy and edit it to create
a new document. This is not good practice in Word. In Word, construct a
good, tight, template for your documents and use that template when
constructing new documents. Among other things, this can avoid embarrassing
"metadata" (http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/metadata.htm) and things
like surprise headers and footers from creeping into new documents.


Sharing normal.dot - centralizing normal.dot

It is tempting to try to share customizations and regularize processes by
sharing normal.dot. Do not do this! See
http://addbalance.com/word/movetotemplate.htm and
http://addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm for ideas on sharing
customizations.


It's a lot of reading, I know. It's OK to chunk it down and do a bit each
day, but I would recommend that you make it a top priority to do that bit
each day. In the (short) long run, it will save you both time and grief.
--

Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs which is awesome!

My criminal law site: http://addbalance.com
--------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------
This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies
and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn
from my ignorance and your wisdom.

"AuntB" wrote in message
...
How can I place a macro in autocorrect? I use to do this at my previous
employment but I cannot remember how. Ex.: If I want to make my macro
AltB
(bold) easier to place in the document (instead of hitting the Alt and
then
the B), I can put the macro in autocorrect somehow and use like "bb" for
the
AltB.

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I cannot imagine what you are trying to do. The built-in keyboard shortcut
for bold is Ctrl+B, but that wasn't easy enough for you, so you have created
a macro to apply bold formatting and given it a keyboard shortcut of Alt+B,
and now that is not easy enough for you and so you want to use AutoCorrect
to replace "bb" with "Alt+B"?

Surely I'm misreading this. Please post back with further information. In
any case, there is not (AFAIK) any way to use AutoCorrect to trigger a
macro.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"AuntB" wrote in message
...
How can I place a macro in autocorrect? I use to do this at my previous
employment but I cannot remember how. Ex.: If I want to make my macro
AltB
(bold) easier to place in the document (instead of hitting the Alt and
then
the B), I can put the macro in autocorrect somehow and use like "bb" for
the
AltB.

[AuntB]

I was just using bold as an example. I know there is a way because I use to
use it all the time but I have forgotten how to do it. It was Word. I
haven't used WordPerfect in about 15 years.

"Charles Kenyon" wrote:

There is no such method. Are you perhaps thinking a different Word
Processing program?

Why would you have a macro for bold? Ctrl-B already is a bold command?

I don't know if the following will be useful to you but am sending it in
case it is:

Here is some general info on moving from Word Perfect to Word:

Word and Word Perfect work very differently from one another. Each program's
methods have strengths and weaknesses; but, if you try to use one of these
programs as if it were the other, it is like pushing on a string! You can
easily make a lot of extra work for yourself. In the (short) long term
(weeks rather than years) spending the time to learn Word will save you time
if you are spending any time at all (more than an hour a day) using Word.

See http://www.addbalance.com/word/wordperfect.htm
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...ordPerfect.htm
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...AndGotchas.htm
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/General/RevealCodes.htm
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Genera...Converters.htm
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/conc...ion/index.html
for information on Word for Word Perfect users.

For mo
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Custom...platePart2.htm
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Custom...platePart1.htm
http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/bull...olbullets.html
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Number...gExplained.htm
http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Custom...latesStore.htm


Function Keys

In Word 2000 (or later) You can get the function keys to display in a
special toolbar at the bottom of the screen if you want (something like
pressing F3 twice in WP). The following macro will do this.
Sub ShowMeFunctionKeys()
Commandbars("Function Key Display").Visible = True
End Sub

Word's Extend key (F8) gives something similar to block processing.


Formatting and Styles

Learn about Styles - really learn!
http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm I resisted for years and now
regret every day of those years because although that string was still very
hard to push, it kept getting longer and longer, and had some very important
projects tied to it! Once you understand styles and the Word concept of
organizing things into Chinese boxes everything falls into place and instead
of pushing a string, you can push a button that turns on the very powerful
text processing machine known as Microsoft Word and it will start doing your
work for you instead of running around behind you trying to undo what you
just thought you did.


Converting documents Word / Word Perfect

Some special characters in Word Perfect documents don't convert well to
Word. There is a macro to assist with this described at
http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/...html#macroword and can be found
at http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/WPSymbolConv.bas.
This was prepared by Edward Mendelson.
Otherwise, look at the macro from http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=212396
Use these on _copies_!

As for converting documents from Word Perfect to _use_ in Word... In a word,
don't plan on it. I would not recommend using converted documents long-term.
They will be filled with formatting anomolies that will get you at the worst
time. This is especially true of any documents containing automatic
numbering or bullets. Try recreating form documents in Word using the
following process:
In Word Perfect (if you still have it, in Word if not) save your files as
text files.
Use your converted files as references to show you how you want your
formatting to look.
Create a new document in Word and insert the text from the text file. Save
this new document as a Word template. Format it the way you want using
styles, not direct formatting. Save it again.
To use a template within Word, use File = New and pick your template. This
will create a new document for you.

Merge documents have special problems and should be recreated from text
files or retyped in Word. To convert data files, consider generating labels
in WP as a document, converting that to Word, and then using
http://www.gmayor.com/convert_labels...mail_merge.htm to get a new Word
data file.

Note that conversions usually do create documents that look passable and
print OK; the problems I'm referring to have to do with editing / making
changes, that is, using the documents long-term. (See below on reusing
documents vs. using templates.)

Conversion back to Word Perfect: There is a problem (in addition to the ones
mentioned for conversion _to_ Word) with Version 2002 (XP) and later of
Word. The conversion file only works for conversion _to_ Word, not from Word
to Word Perfect! Earlier versions went both ways. To fix this, you need to
find the old conversion file WPFT532.CNV from a Word 97 or Word 2000
installation and copy it to your new installation, replacing the file of the
same name. Note, the change making the file one-way was done as a security
measure. While I don't know of any problems the old file causes, keep the
new installation's file somewhere as a backup just in case.


Menus and AutoFormat as you type

Turn off the adaptive menus (display full menus all the time). This is under
Tools Customize Options. Also, I recommend that under Tools
AutoCorrect Options AutoFormat as you type that all options under "Apply
as you type" and "Automatically as you type" be turned off.


Boilerplate and Forms

In WP a lot of people use macros to hold chunks of text - boilerplate. In
Word this function is filled by Templates, AutoText and AutoCorrect, not
macros. Follow the links at
http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebre...s.htm#AutoText for more
information on these tools.

You can use FILLIN and ASK fields or UserForms to query the user. For more
about online forms, follow the links at
http://addbalance.com/word/wordwebresources.htm#Forms or
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm especially Dian
Chapman's series of articles. You may also want to look at
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFl...nesInForms.htm.



Letterhead

How to set up letterhead or some other document where you want one header
(or no header) on the first page and a different header on other pages.
http://www.addbalance.com/word/headersfooters.htm This gives step-by-step
instructions. (This page also has the following links)

Some other pages to look at:

Letterhead Tips and Instructions
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Letterhead.htm

Letterhead Textboxes and Styles tutorial
http://addbalance.com/word/download....StylesTutorial
(for simulating different margins on different pages, among other things)



Reusing Documents vs. Using templates

General practice in WP is to have a document and copy and edit it to create
a new document. This is not good practice in Word. In Word, construct a
good, tight, template for your documents and use that template when
constructing new documents. Among other things, this can avoid embarrassing
"metadata" (http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/metadata.htm) and things
like surprise headers and footers from creeping into new documents.


Sharing normal.dot - centralizing normal.dot

It is tempting to try to share customizations and regularize processes by
sharing normal.dot. Do not do this! See
http://addbalance.com/word/movetotemplate.htm and
http://addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm for ideas on sharing
customizations.


It's a lot of reading, I know. It's OK to chunk it down and do a bit each
day, but I would recommend that you make it a top priority to do that bit
each day. In the (short) long run, it will save you both time and grief.
--

Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs which is awesome!

My criminal law site: http://addbalance.com
--------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------
This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies
and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn
from my ignorance and your wisdom.

"AuntB" wrote in message
...
How can I place a macro in autocorrect? I use to do this at my previous
employment but I cannot remember how. Ex.: If I want to make my macro
AltB
(bold) easier to place in the document (instead of hitting the Alt and
then
the B), I can put the macro in autocorrect somehow and use like "bb" for
the
AltB.

[AuntB]

I just used Bold as an example!!! Yes, in speed typing it is much easier to
hit "bb" than to have to locate the Alt and then hit the B.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

I cannot imagine what you are trying to do. The built-in keyboard shortcut
for bold is Ctrl+B, but that wasn't easy enough for you, so you have created
a macro to apply bold formatting and given it a keyboard shortcut of Alt+B,
and now that is not easy enough for you and so you want to use AutoCorrect
to replace "bb" with "Alt+B"?

Surely I'm misreading this. Please post back with further information. In
any case, there is not (AFAIK) any way to use AutoCorrect to trigger a
macro.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"AuntB" wrote in message
...
How can I place a macro in autocorrect? I use to do this at my previous
employment but I cannot remember how. Ex.: If I want to make my macro
AltB
(bold) easier to place in the document (instead of hitting the Alt and
then
the B), I can put the macro in autocorrect somehow and use like "bb" for
the
AltB.

[Greg Maxey]

AuntB,

A sage once said (perhaps it was Andy), "There is no use arguing with a
sign board." You can't fire a macro with autocorrect and you can't
assign "bb" to a keyboard shortcut to fire a macro.


AuntB wrote:
I just used Bold as an example!!! Yes, in speed typing it is much easier to
hit "bb" than to have to locate the Alt and then hit the B.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

I cannot imagine what you are trying to do. The built-in keyboard shortcut
for bold is Ctrl+B, but that wasn't easy enough for you, so you have created
a macro to apply bold formatting and given it a keyboard shortcut of Alt+B,
and now that is not easy enough for you and so you want to use AutoCorrect
to replace "bb" with "Alt+B"?

Surely I'm misreading this. Please post back with further information. In
any case, there is not (AFAIK) any way to use AutoCorrect to trigger a
macro.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"AuntB" wrote in message
...
How can I place a macro in autocorrect? I use to do this at my previous
employment but I cannot remember how. Ex.: If I want to make my macro
AltB
(bold) easier to place in the document (instead of hitting the Alt and
then
the B), I can put the macro in autocorrect somehow and use like "bb" for
the
AltB.

[Charles Kenyon]

You can set autocorrect entries with to insert formatted text or symbols -
like (c) - but you can't use it to turn formatting on or off. Sorry. Not
now, not in any version of Word I've used, and I've been using Word since at
least Version 3.0.

You could assign keyboard shortcuts, sometimes involving multiple keys typed
sequentially, to macros. However, there is no way you would want to assign
something to bb! You would lose the functionality of that letter. You might
have something that is Alt-1, b and another that is Alt-1, c. That is,
holding down the Alt key and pressing 1, followed by pressing the letter b
or c.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!

My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com
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This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies
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"AuntB" wrote in message
...
I was just using bold as an example. I know there is a way because I use
to
use it all the time but I have forgotten how to do it. It was Word. I
haven't used WordPerfect in about 15 years.

"Charles Kenyon" wrote:

There is no such method. Are you perhaps thinking a different Word
Processing program?

Why would you have a macro for bold? Ctrl-B already is a bold command?

***

Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs which is awesome!

My criminal law site: http://addbalance.com
--------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------
This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies
and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn
from my ignorance and your wisdom.

"AuntB" wrote in message
...
How can I place a macro in autocorrect? I use to do this at my
previous
employment but I cannot remember how. Ex.: If I want to make my macro
AltB
(bold) easier to place in the document (instead of hitting the Alt and
then
the B), I can put the macro in autocorrect somehow and use like "bb"
for
the
AltB.

[Dandelo]

This is just a thought, but could you be thinking of Find/Replace?

Edit/find (Ctrl +F) or Edit/Replace (Ctrl+G). I think you can set the
formatting in there, too
hth

"AuntB" wrote:

How can I place a macro in autocorrect? I use to do this at my previous
employment but I cannot remember how. Ex.: If I want to make my macro AltB
(bold) easier to place in the document (instead of hitting the Alt and then
the B), I can put the macro in autocorrect somehow and use like "bb" for the
AltB.

[Dandelo]

Also, there's a thread called "Automatically apply bold formatting as I type"
from 10/21/05 that you might find helpful. Here is the answer porvided by
Joe McGuire to that question:

To do this open a blank document and type the word "shall" (without quotes)
and then highlight it and click bold. With that word highlighted click
Tools, AutoCorrect Options. You should see the word in the right side of
the two-part window. Insert a dot for Formatted Text and type your word
"shall" in the right side for "Replace." Close Autocorrect and test it by
typing a sentence with the word in it. Henceforth every instance of that
word should show up in bold in every single Word document. (Until you
delete the AutoCorrect entry.)

If this is overkill and you don't really want this for each and every
instance of the word in each and every Word document you have a few
alternatives. If you only want to do this occasionally you could accomplish
the same thing using Find and Replace in an individual document. If you
want to do this pretty often, but not all the time, you could also make a
macro to search for the word in a particular document and make sure it is in
bold.
--
hth
"Dandelo" wrote:

This is just a thought, but could you be thinking of Find/Replace?

Edit/find (Ctrl +F) or Edit/Replace (Ctrl+G). I think you can set the
formatting in there, too
hth

"AuntB" wrote:

How can I place a macro in autocorrect? I use to do this at my previous
employment but I cannot remember how. Ex.: If I want to make my macro AltB
(bold) easier to place in the document (instead of hitting the Alt and then
the B), I can put the macro in autocorrect somehow and use like "bb" for the
AltB.