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how do I change 1 letter abreviations to a full word automaticall.
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 ? |
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If you're careful, you can use the replace feature. Change all "P " or " P
" with match case to " Plaintif" or " Plaintif ". You just need to be sure that you don't have any other use of a spaceP or spacePspace that shouldn't be changed to 'Plaintif'. I've screwed similar replaces before because I didn't realize how many other uses would be replaced rather than the ones I intended. In the future, use a unique spelling that would be easier to replace (e.g., &P&, *P*, etc.). Use a "replace all" or do them one at a time to ensure that you aren't replacing the wrong ones. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message news 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. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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