[Tom Curtin]

My users have been relying on a medical boilerplate template for the past
five years. They type /n1 and autoext gave them a lovely formated paragraph
relating to the diagnosis and recommendation. In testing 2007, the quick
parts solution is horribly cumbersome. Probably great certain things, but it
really doesn't fit the way we work. Has anyone heard how Microsoft is going
to address this. I'd think other customers would be screaming as well?

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

I haven't heard anything about this changing. It would be very unusual for
something of this magnitude to change before the next major release (2-4
years from now, I would guess). I wouldn't be surprised, however, to see
AutoComplete put back on the table before then, although they would have to
find a way to tame it so it didn't fire for non-AutoText building blocks.
But, I haven't heard anything.

Having said that, it's possible that your users can, through the use of key
assignments and a few macros (perhaps... maybe even without using macros)
continue using AutoText if not identically to how they have been, then at
least in a similar way. One change, though, is that /n1 won't work with F3
in Word 2007. If they name it \n1, however, and can get used to pressing F3
rather than relying on AutoComplete, they might regain some of the facility.
For me personally, I never cared for AutoComplete since it required me to
stop and think and perform a specific action, and often fired at times when
I didn't want it. Using the F3 method, I just type the shortcuts and press
F3.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
http://www.herbtyson.com
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
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"Tom Curtin" wrote in message
...
My users have been relying on a medical boilerplate template for the past
five years. They type /n1 and autoext gave them a lovely formated
paragraph
relating to the diagnosis and recommendation. In testing 2007, the quick
parts solution is horribly cumbersome. Probably great certain things, but
it
really doesn't fit the way we work. Has anyone heard how Microsoft is
going
to address this. I'd think other customers would be screaming as well?

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It's also possible that AutoCorrect could be adapted for this.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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all may benefit.

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message
...
I haven't heard anything about this changing. It would be very unusual for
something of this magnitude to change before the next major release (2-4
years from now, I would guess). I wouldn't be surprised, however, to see
AutoComplete put back on the table before then, although they would have
to
find a way to tame it so it didn't fire for non-AutoText building blocks.
But, I haven't heard anything.

Having said that, it's possible that your users can, through the use of
key
assignments and a few macros (perhaps... maybe even without using macros)
continue using AutoText if not identically to how they have been, then at
least in a similar way. One change, though, is that /n1 won't work with F3
in Word 2007. If they name it \n1, however, and can get used to pressing
F3
rather than relying on AutoComplete, they might regain some of the
facility.
For me personally, I never cared for AutoComplete since it required me to
stop and think and perform a specific action, and often fired at times
when
I didn't want it. Using the F3 method, I just type the shortcuts and press
F3.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
http://www.herbtyson.com
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along.
"Tom Curtin" wrote in message
...
My users have been relying on a medical boilerplate template for the
past
five years. They type /n1 and autoext gave them a lovely formated
paragraph
relating to the diagnosis and recommendation. In testing 2007, the
quick
parts solution is horribly cumbersome. Probably great certain things,
but
it
really doesn't fit the way we work. Has anyone heard how Microsoft is
going
to address this. I'd think other customers would be screaming as well?

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

Possibly, but I think you run into limits a lot more quickly using
AutoCorrect, and you still don't have the AutoComplete tips with AC. Of
course, there's always Ctrl+Z when you get something undesired/unexpected.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
http://www.herbtyson.com
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
It's also possible that AutoCorrect could be adapted for this.

--
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.

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message
...
I haven't heard anything about this changing. It would be very unusual
for
something of this magnitude to change before the next major release (2-4
years from now, I would guess). I wouldn't be surprised, however, to see
AutoComplete put back on the table before then, although they would have
to
find a way to tame it so it didn't fire for non-AutoText building
blocks.
But, I haven't heard anything.

Having said that, it's possible that your users can, through the use of
key
assignments and a few macros (perhaps... maybe even without using macros)
continue using AutoText if not identically to how they have been, then at
least in a similar way. One change, though, is that /n1 won't work with
F3
in Word 2007. If they name it \n1, however, and can get used to pressing
F3
rather than relying on AutoComplete, they might regain some of the
facility.
For me personally, I never cared for AutoComplete since it required me to
stop and think and perform a specific action, and often fired at times
when
I didn't want it. Using the F3 method, I just type the shortcuts and
press
F3.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
http://www.herbtyson.com
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along.
"Tom Curtin" wrote in message
...
My users have been relying on a medical boilerplate template for the
past
five years. They type /n1 and autoext gave them a lovely formated
paragraph
relating to the diagnosis and recommendation. In testing 2007, the
quick
parts solution is horribly cumbersome. Probably great certain things,
but
it
really doesn't fit the way we work. Has anyone heard how Microsoft is
going
to address this. I'd think other customers would be screaming as well?

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Tom,

The 'autocomplete' portion of the AutoText feature of the Word 2007 Quick Parts Building Blocks has been removed from Word 2007.
Apparently because there would be too many things triggering autocomplete with a lot of Quick Parts in play.

If /n1 was your shortcut for the boilerplate type it and then use F3 and it should put the boilerplate in, but it doesn't appear to
like / as the first character.

You can put the entry in as an autocorrect one (select the boilerplate and use Alt,T,A to bring up the dialog) and assign /n1 there
and typing /n1 will replace what you typed with the boilerplate.

You can also assign keyboard shortcuts to individual AutoText entries through Alt,T,O,C, Alt+T) but trying to figure out what some
of the built in o0es are, when they're named by GUID can be a bit of a challenge, and you are somewhat limited to the remaining
avilable keyboard combinations.

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"Tom Curtin" wrote in message ...
My users have been relying on a medical boilerplate template for the past
five years. They type /n1 and autoext gave them a lovely formated paragraph
relating to the diagnosis and recommendation. In testing 2007, the quick
parts solution is horribly cumbersome. Probably great certain things, but it
really doesn't fit the way we work. Has anyone heard how Microsoft is going
to address this. I'd think other customers would be screaming as well?
--

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*