I'm updating an old Word/DOS 3.1 document into a current Word 2002 doc. This
report has about 20 pages with close to 1,200 AutoText entries that are
displayed as hidden text in the document. First, I'm thinking of converting
the groups of hidden AutoText listings to pop-up lists. I've got the whole
right-click thing down fairly well.

However, a co-worker would prefer that the report be as mouseless as
possible. Is it possible to "F8" a text word to select it (our AutoTextList
word in this case), then have a key act as the pop-up list (i.e., to have it
display the info I want placed into the selected word)? Would this be a
"hotkey" or "macro" issue?

G'day John in Riverbank John in ,

You could tie a small macro to a hot key to do this, yes.

Steve Hudson - Word Heretic

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I'm updating an old Word/DOS 3.1 document into a current Word 2002 doc. This
report has about 20 pages with close to 1,200 AutoText entries that are
displayed as hidden text in the document. First, I'm thinking of converting
the groups of hidden AutoText listings to pop-up lists. I've got the whole
right-click thing down fairly well.

However, a co-worker would prefer that the report be as mouseless as
possible. Is it possible to "F8" a text word to select it (our AutoTextList
word in this case), then have a key act as the pop-up list (i.e., to have it
display the info I want placed into the selected word)? Would this be a
"hotkey" or "macro" issue?

"Word Heretic" wrote:

G'day John in Riverbank John in ,

You could tie a small macro to a hot key to do this, yes.

Steve Hudson - Word Heretic

steve from wordheretic.com (Email replies require payment)
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John in Riverbank John in
reckoned:

I'm updating an old Word/DOS 3.1 document into a current Word 2002 doc. This
report has about 20 pages with close to 1,200 AutoText entries that are
displayed as hidden text in the document. First, I'm thinking of converting
the groups of hidden AutoText listings to pop-up lists. I've got the whole
right-click thing down fairly well.

However, a co-worker would prefer that the report be as mouseless as
possible. Is it possible to "F8" a text word to select it (our AutoTextList
word in this case), then have a key act as the pop-up list (i.e., to have it
display the info I want placed into the selected word)? Would this be a
"hotkey" or "macro" issue?