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How can I override the autocorrect options for individual documents?
For most of my docs, I want smart quotes, smart dashes, smart
fractions, ordinal superscripts, etc. But, for some docs, this causes problems. I would like to override these settings in just a few documents without affecting any other documents. Can I do that? Easily? |
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How can I override the autocorrect options for individual documents?
You can disable the options temporarily but not for a specific document.
Unfortunately, they're global settings. I have this problem whenever I'm working on a dictionary manuscript where the defined terms should not be capitalized; I have to disable the option to capitalize the first letter of sentences just while I'm working on that document. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Sesquipedalian Sam" wrote in message ... For most of my docs, I want smart quotes, smart dashes, smart fractions, ordinal superscripts, etc. But, for some docs, this causes problems. I would like to override these settings in just a few documents without affecting any other documents. Can I do that? Easily? |
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How can I override the autocorrect options for individual documents?
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:04:41 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote: You can disable the options temporarily but not for a specific document. Unfortunately, they're global settings. I have this problem whenever I'm working on a dictionary manuscript where the defined terms should not be capitalized; I have to disable the option to capitalize the first letter of sentences just while I'm working on that document. Rats. I am using Word 2007, if that's any advantage... |
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On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:47:24 -0700, Sesquipedalian Sam
wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:04:41 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You can disable the options temporarily but not for a specific document. Unfortunately, they're global settings. I have this problem whenever I'm working on a dictionary manuscript where the defined terms should not be capitalized; I have to disable the option to capitalize the first letter of sentences just while I'm working on that document. Rats. I am using Word 2007, if that's any advantage... It doesn't make any difference what version of Word you have, but it does make a difference if all the documents concerned are based on the same template (or a few templates), while all other documents are _not_ based on that template. If that condition is true, you can add macros to the template to turn the options off when you open a document based on that template, and turn them on again when you close the document. But this works properly only if these documents are opened one at a time, while no other documents are open. The macros to add are Document_Open and Document_Close (see http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...entEvents.htm), and the statements to put into them are, for example, Options.AutoFormatAsYouTypeReplaceQuotes = False in Document_Open to turn off the Smart Quotes replacement, and Options.AutoFormatAsYouTypeReplaceQuotes = True in Document_Close to turn it on again. There is a whole sequence of Options.AutoFormatAsYouTypeXYZ options to be handled this way. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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How can I override the autocorrect options for individual documents?
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:55:10 -0400, Jay Freedman
wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:47:24 -0700, Sesquipedalian Sam wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:04:41 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You can disable the options temporarily but not for a specific document. Unfortunately, they're global settings. I have this problem whenever I'm working on a dictionary manuscript where the defined terms should not be capitalized; I have to disable the option to capitalize the first letter of sentences just while I'm working on that document. Rats. I am using Word 2007, if that's any advantage... It doesn't make any difference what version of Word you have, but it does make a difference if all the documents concerned are based on the same template (or a few templates), while all other documents are _not_ based on that template. If that condition is true, you can add macros to the template to turn the options off when you open a document based on that template, and turn them on again when you close the document. But this works properly only if these documents are opened one at a time, while no other documents are open. The macros to add are Document_Open and Document_Close (see http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...entEvents.htm), and the statements to put into them are, for example, Options.AutoFormatAsYouTypeReplaceQuotes = False in Document_Open to turn off the Smart Quotes replacement, and Options.AutoFormatAsYouTypeReplaceQuotes = True in Document_Close to turn it on again. There is a whole sequence of Options.AutoFormatAsYouTypeXYZ options to be handled this way. Thanks for the code, but I typically have several documents open at the same time. |
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How can I override the autocorrect options for individual documents?
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:55:10 -0400, Jay Freedman
wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:47:24 -0700, Sesquipedalian Sam wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:04:41 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You can disable the options temporarily but not for a specific document. Unfortunately, they're global settings. I have this problem whenever I'm working on a dictionary manuscript where the defined terms should not be capitalized; I have to disable the option to capitalize the first letter of sentences just while I'm working on that document. Rats. I am using Word 2007, if that's any advantage... It doesn't make any difference what version of Word you have, but it does make a difference if all the documents concerned are based on the same template (or a few templates), while all other documents are _not_ based on that template. If that condition is true, you can add macros to the template to turn the options off when you open a document based on that template, and turn them on again when you close the document. But this works properly only if these documents are opened one at a time, while no other documents are open. The macros to add are Document_Open and Document_Close (see http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...entEvents.htm), and the statements to put into them are, for example, Options.AutoFormatAsYouTypeReplaceQuotes = False in Document_Open to turn off the Smart Quotes replacement, and Options.AutoFormatAsYouTypeReplaceQuotes = True in Document_Close to turn it on again. There is a whole sequence of Options.AutoFormatAsYouTypeXYZ options to be handled this way. This seems like a design defect. I wouldthink that these properties and a lot of other ones are very document specific, or can be. I also wish Word would remember exactly how the document window looked, including whether the Document Map was open and where it is on the screen, and put it back exactly that way the next time I open it. Oh, well. Maybe Google's Open Office will work that way... |
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