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How do I set up Word to finish a commonly typed sentence/phrase?
In older Word editions, within the spellcheck function, I could assign
"autocomplete" to commonly typed phrases and sentences. If I would type the first few letters in the series, the rest would pop up in a box and if I hit the enter key they would be inserted into the document. I don't know where to find that on Word 2007. Thanks for any help you can give. |
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How do I set up Word to finish a commonly typed sentence/phrase?
AutoComplete is no longer supported in Word 2007. However, you should
still be able to type the name of the AutoText entry/building block and then press F3 to insert its contents. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Sunshine" wrote in message ... In older Word editions, within the spellcheck function, I could assign "autocomplete" to commonly typed phrases and sentences. If I would type the first few letters in the series, the rest would pop up in a box and if I hit the enter key they would be inserted into the document. I don't know where to find that on Word 2007. Thanks for any help you can give. |
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How do I set up Word to finish a commonly typed sentence/phrase?
The feature you're referring to is called AutoText, which still functions in
2007 but in a more restricting fashion. Part of that restriction is that the AutoComplete ScreenTips no longer display - nor does the Enter key complete the entry - for the AutoText Items. (There are a few built-in exceptions, such as dates, month names & weekday names.) AutoText has also been clustered within the "new" feature called Building Blocks, which you may want to research in Word Help. You can still type the AutoText Item "names" then press the F3 key to complete the insertion. Don't forget that you can use the Office button, go to Word Options, select Resources, then click the Contact Us button to send feedback to MS ;-) -- HTH |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "Sunshine" wrote in message ... In older Word editions, within the spellcheck function, I could assign "autocomplete" to commonly typed phrases and sentences. If I would type the first few letters in the series, the rest would pop up in a box and if I hit the enter key they would be inserted into the document. I don't know where to find that on Word 2007. Thanks for any help you can give. |
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I can't believe you took the autocomplete feature out. This was my lifeline
at work. Bad mistake Microsoft!!! It's much more time consuming to have to use the building blocks. "CyberTaz" wrote: The feature you're referring to is called AutoText, which still functions in 2007 but in a more restricting fashion. Part of that restriction is that the AutoComplete ScreenTips no longer display - nor does the Enter key complete the entry - for the AutoText Items. (There are a few built-in exceptions, such as dates, month names & weekday names.) AutoText has also been clustered within the "new" feature called Building Blocks, which you may want to research in Word Help. You can still type the AutoText Item "names" then press the F3 key to complete the insertion. Don't forget that you can use the Office button, go to Word Options, select Resources, then click the Contact Us button to send feedback to MS ;-) -- HTH |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "Sunshine" wrote in message ... In older Word editions, within the spellcheck function, I could assign "autocomplete" to commonly typed phrases and sentences. If I would type the first few letters in the series, the rest would pop up in a box and if I hit the enter key they would be inserted into the document. I don't know where to find that on Word 2007. Thanks for any help you can give. |
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In addition to what Stefan and Bob have told you, you may find that
AutoCorrect is more useful than AutoText for some of your applications; see http://word.mvps.org/faqs/customization/AutoCorrect.htm. -- 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. "Sunshine" wrote in message ... In older Word editions, within the spellcheck function, I could assign "autocomplete" to commonly typed phrases and sentences. If I would type the first few letters in the series, the rest would pop up in a box and if I hit the enter key they would be inserted into the document. I don't know where to find that on Word 2007. Thanks for any help you can give. |
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"We" aren't Microsoft - that's why I suggested the Resources option
-- Regards |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "Dee Meyerink" wrote in message news I can't believe you took the autocomplete feature out. This was my lifeline at work. Bad mistake Microsoft!!! It's much more time consuming to have to use the building blocks. "CyberTaz" wrote: The feature you're referring to is called AutoText, which still functions in 2007 but in a more restricting fashion. Part of that restriction is that the AutoComplete ScreenTips no longer display - nor does the Enter key complete the entry - for the AutoText Items. (There are a few built-in exceptions, such as dates, month names & weekday names.) AutoText has also been clustered within the "new" feature called Building Blocks, which you may want to research in Word Help. You can still type the AutoText Item "names" then press the F3 key to complete the insertion. Don't forget that you can use the Office button, go to Word Options, select Resources, then click the Contact Us button to send feedback to MS ;-) -- HTH |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "Sunshine" wrote in message ... In older Word editions, within the spellcheck function, I could assign "autocomplete" to commonly typed phrases and sentences. If I would type the first few letters in the series, the rest would pop up in a box and if I hit the enter key they would be inserted into the document. I don't know where to find that on Word 2007. Thanks for any help you can give. |
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As Bob points out, we are just users and had no input into this decision,
but note that you can still insert the AutoText as before by typing the first four characters of the unique entry name and pressing F3 instead of Enter or Tab. -- 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. "Dee Meyerink" wrote in message news I can't believe you took the autocomplete feature out. This was my lifeline at work. Bad mistake Microsoft!!! It's much more time consuming to have to use the building blocks. "CyberTaz" wrote: The feature you're referring to is called AutoText, which still functions in 2007 but in a more restricting fashion. Part of that restriction is that the AutoComplete ScreenTips no longer display - nor does the Enter key complete the entry - for the AutoText Items. (There are a few built-in exceptions, such as dates, month names & weekday names.) AutoText has also been clustered within the "new" feature called Building Blocks, which you may want to research in Word Help. You can still type the AutoText Item "names" then press the F3 key to complete the insertion. Don't forget that you can use the Office button, go to Word Options, select Resources, then click the Contact Us button to send feedback to MS ;-) -- HTH |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "Sunshine" wrote in message ... In older Word editions, within the spellcheck function, I could assign "autocomplete" to commonly typed phrases and sentences. If I would type the first few letters in the series, the rest would pop up in a box and if I hit the enter key they would be inserted into the document. I don't know where to find that on Word 2007. Thanks for any help you can give. |
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote
As Bob points out, we are just users and had no input into this decision, but note that you can still insert the AutoText as before by typing the first four characters of the unique entry name and pressing F3 instead of Enter or Tab. Far be it from me to praise the new incarnation of Word but I think I know the reason for this particular decision. If you enter the first letters of an autotext in a table and hit return, Word XP will crash under some circumstances. I got bitten twice by this nasty little "gotcha" today alone. -- Bob http://www.kanyak.com |
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The stated reason is that, now that AutoText entries are "Building Blocks"
(aka "Quick Parts"), AutoComplete would necessarily affect the rest of these as well, and they include many cover sheets, TOCs, etc., that begin with the same letters. I don't see how that would really be a problem, since AutoComplete would never fire for them, but MS is aware of the problem (user dissatisfaction) and may take steps to "fix" it. -- 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. "Opinicus" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote As Bob points out, we are just users and had no input into this decision, but note that you can still insert the AutoText as before by typing the first four characters of the unique entry name and pressing F3 instead of Enter or Tab. Far be it from me to praise the new incarnation of Word but I think I know the reason for this particular decision. If you enter the first letters of an autotext in a table and hit return, Word XP will crash under some circumstances. I got bitten twice by this nasty little "gotcha" today alone. -- Bob http://www.kanyak.com |
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I'm not sure I followed all the arguments, but the sticking point seems to
be that several kinds of Building Blocks (cover page, header, footer, pull quote, etc.) can all have the same name; the program keeps them separate by putting them in different galleries. The devs said "if you type one of those names, and we show the AutoComplete prompt, what should be inserted when you press Enter?" My suggestion would be to display and respond to AutoComplete _only_ for AutoText items, and not show it for any other kind of Building Block. The program handles a lot of logic more complicated than that. -- 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. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: The stated reason is that, now that AutoText entries are "Building Blocks" (aka "Quick Parts"), AutoComplete would necessarily affect the rest of these as well, and they include many cover sheets, TOCs, etc., that begin with the same letters. I don't see how that would really be a problem, since AutoComplete would never fire for them, but MS is aware of the problem (user dissatisfaction) and may take steps to "fix" it. "Opinicus" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote As Bob points out, we are just users and had no input into this decision, but note that you can still insert the AutoText as before by typing the first four characters of the unique entry name and pressing F3 instead of Enter or Tab. Far be it from me to praise the new incarnation of Word but I think I know the reason for this particular decision. If you enter the first letters of an autotext in a table and hit return, Word XP will crash under some circumstances. I got bitten twice by this nasty little "gotcha" today alone. -- Bob http://www.kanyak.com |
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The question as to what the AutoComplete prompt might say and what might get
inserted when Enter is pressed, is the same question as regards what gets inserted when you press F3 without a prompt, and has already been addressed. I haven't done exhaustive tests but it appears that, when there is a conflict, Building Block types are processed built-in types first, in alphabetic order, followed by custom types, again in alphabetic order. Luckily AutoText comes first in this sequence. -- Enjoy, Tony "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... I'm not sure I followed all the arguments, but the sticking point seems to be that several kinds of Building Blocks (cover page, header, footer, pull quote, etc.) can all have the same name; the program keeps them separate by putting them in different galleries. The devs said "if you type one of those names, and we show the AutoComplete prompt, what should be inserted when you press Enter?" My suggestion would be to display and respond to AutoComplete _only_ for AutoText items, and not show it for any other kind of Building Block. The program handles a lot of logic more complicated than that. -- 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. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: The stated reason is that, now that AutoText entries are "Building Blocks" (aka "Quick Parts"), AutoComplete would necessarily affect the rest of these as well, and they include many cover sheets, TOCs, etc., that begin with the same letters. I don't see how that would really be a problem, since AutoComplete would never fire for them, but MS is aware of the problem (user dissatisfaction) and may take steps to "fix" it. "Opinicus" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote As Bob points out, we are just users and had no input into this decision, but note that you can still insert the AutoText as before by typing the first four characters of the unique entry name and pressing F3 instead of Enter or Tab. Far be it from me to praise the new incarnation of Word but I think I know the reason for this particular decision. If you enter the first letters of an autotext in a table and hit return, Word XP will crash under some circumstances. I got bitten twice by this nasty little "gotcha" today alone. -- Bob http://www.kanyak.com |
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True, and that design decision made possible the following idiocy:
Under the name "Alphabet" (for one of several examples) there are a cover page, a header, a footer, and several other Building Blocks. If you put the cursor in the header pane, type Alphabet, and press F3, Word inserts the cover page Building Block in the header because "cover page" is alphabetically (!) before "header". :-b -- 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. On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:08:29 +0100, "Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com wrote: The question as to what the AutoComplete prompt might say and what might get inserted when Enter is pressed, is the same question as regards what gets inserted when you press F3 without a prompt, and has already been addressed. I haven't done exhaustive tests but it appears that, when there is a conflict, Building Block types are processed built-in types first, in alphabetic order, followed by custom types, again in alphabetic order. Luckily AutoText comes first in this sequence. -- Enjoy, Tony "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... I'm not sure I followed all the arguments, but the sticking point seems to be that several kinds of Building Blocks (cover page, header, footer, pull quote, etc.) can all have the same name; the program keeps them separate by putting them in different galleries. The devs said "if you type one of those names, and we show the AutoComplete prompt, what should be inserted when you press Enter?" My suggestion would be to display and respond to AutoComplete _only_ for AutoText items, and not show it for any other kind of Building Block. The program handles a lot of logic more complicated than that. -- 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. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: The stated reason is that, now that AutoText entries are "Building Blocks" (aka "Quick Parts"), AutoComplete would necessarily affect the rest of these as well, and they include many cover sheets, TOCs, etc., that begin with the same letters. I don't see how that would really be a problem, since AutoComplete would never fire for them, but MS is aware of the problem (user dissatisfaction) and may take steps to "fix" it. "Opinicus" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote As Bob points out, we are just users and had no input into this decision, but note that you can still insert the AutoText as before by typing the first four characters of the unique entry name and pressing F3 instead of Enter or Tab. Far be it from me to praise the new incarnation of Word but I think I know the reason for this particular decision. If you enter the first letters of an autotext in a table and hit return, Word XP will crash under some circumstances. I got bitten twice by this nasty little "gotcha" today alone. -- Bob http://www.kanyak.com |
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Whoops! I hadn't come across that one; thank you, Jay.
Unfortunately I have had to do another mercy dash to my parents and don't have 2007 here but it sounds like a good avenue for investigation. Will it insert cover pages in other stories in the same way? -- Enjoy, Tony "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... True, and that design decision made possible the following idiocy: Under the name "Alphabet" (for one of several examples) there are a cover page, a header, a footer, and several other Building Blocks. If you put the cursor in the header pane, type Alphabet, and press F3, Word inserts the cover page Building Block in the header because "cover page" is alphabetically (!) before "header". :-b -- 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. On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:08:29 +0100, "Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com wrote: The question as to what the AutoComplete prompt might say and what might get inserted when Enter is pressed, is the same question as regards what gets inserted when you press F3 without a prompt, and has already been addressed. I haven't done exhaustive tests but it appears that, when there is a conflict, Building Block types are processed built-in types first, in alphabetic order, followed by custom types, again in alphabetic order. Luckily AutoText comes first in this sequence. -- Enjoy, Tony "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... I'm not sure I followed all the arguments, but the sticking point seems to be that several kinds of Building Blocks (cover page, header, footer, pull quote, etc.) can all have the same name; the program keeps them separate by putting them in different galleries. The devs said "if you type one of those names, and we show the AutoComplete prompt, what should be inserted when you press Enter?" My suggestion would be to display and respond to AutoComplete _only_ for AutoText items, and not show it for any other kind of Building Block. The program handles a lot of logic more complicated than that. -- 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. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: The stated reason is that, now that AutoText entries are "Building Blocks" (aka "Quick Parts"), AutoComplete would necessarily affect the rest of these as well, and they include many cover sheets, TOCs, etc., that begin with the same letters. I don't see how that would really be a problem, since AutoComplete would never fire for them, but MS is aware of the problem (user dissatisfaction) and may take steps to "fix" it. "Opinicus" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote As Bob points out, we are just users and had no input into this decision, but note that you can still insert the AutoText as before by typing the first four characters of the unique entry name and pressing F3 instead of Enter or Tab. Far be it from me to praise the new incarnation of Word but I think I know the reason for this particular decision. If you enter the first letters of an autotext in a table and hit return, Word XP will crash under some circumstances. I got bitten twice by this nasty little "gotcha" today alone. -- Bob http://www.kanyak.com |
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Yes, it works the same way -- the Building Block insertion by F3
doesn't pay any attention to the current story. If you try the same "Alphabet" (or one of the others in which the cover page contains a graphic) in a textbox, you get an error message that "You cannot put drawing objects into a textbox, callout, comment, footnote, or endnote". But if you choose an all-text one, such as "Annual", it will happily jam a cover page into a textbox, or a footnote.... -- Regards, Jay Freedman On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:39:40 +0100, "Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com wrote: Whoops! I hadn't come across that one; thank you, Jay. Unfortunately I have had to do another mercy dash to my parents and don't have 2007 here but it sounds like a good avenue for investigation. Will it insert cover pages in other stories in the same way? -- Enjoy, Tony "Jay Freedman" wrote in message .. . True, and that design decision made possible the following idiocy: Under the name "Alphabet" (for one of several examples) there are a cover page, a header, a footer, and several other Building Blocks. If you put the cursor in the header pane, type Alphabet, and press F3, Word inserts the cover page Building Block in the header because "cover page" is alphabetically (!) before "header". :-b -- 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. On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:08:29 +0100, "Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com wrote: The question as to what the AutoComplete prompt might say and what might get inserted when Enter is pressed, is the same question as regards what gets inserted when you press F3 without a prompt, and has already been addressed. I haven't done exhaustive tests but it appears that, when there is a conflict, Building Block types are processed built-in types first, in alphabetic order, followed by custom types, again in alphabetic order. Luckily AutoText comes first in this sequence. -- Enjoy, Tony "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... I'm not sure I followed all the arguments, but the sticking point seems to be that several kinds of Building Blocks (cover page, header, footer, pull quote, etc.) can all have the same name; the program keeps them separate by putting them in different galleries. The devs said "if you type one of those names, and we show the AutoComplete prompt, what should be inserted when you press Enter?" My suggestion would be to display and respond to AutoComplete _only_ for AutoText items, and not show it for any other kind of Building Block. The program handles a lot of logic more complicated than that. -- 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. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: The stated reason is that, now that AutoText entries are "Building Blocks" (aka "Quick Parts"), AutoComplete would necessarily affect the rest of these as well, and they include many cover sheets, TOCs, etc., that begin with the same letters. I don't see how that would really be a problem, since AutoComplete would never fire for them, but MS is aware of the problem (user dissatisfaction) and may take steps to "fix" it. "Opinicus" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote As Bob points out, we are just users and had no input into this decision, but note that you can still insert the AutoText as before by typing the first four characters of the unique entry name and pressing F3 instead of Enter or Tab. Far be it from me to praise the new incarnation of Word but I think I know the reason for this particular decision. If you enter the first letters of an autotext in a table and hit return, Word XP will crash under some circumstances. I got bitten twice by this nasty little "gotcha" today alone. -- Bob http://www.kanyak.com |
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