I think you mistyped something in your description, but I gather that
you actually typed "veh/" and got "vehicle?" as a result.

I don't have Word 97 any more, so I can't confirm that it worked
there. You're correct that it doesn't work that way in Word 2002. I
don't see any way to make it work.

Why did it change? I have no idea -- you'd have to ask the development
team at Microsoft. I've met them, and they're talented and friendly,
but they don't necessarily tell the world everything they change
between versions or why they did it.

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On Mon, 15 May 2006 11:46:01 -0700, Kim
wrote:

In Word 97 I used an auto correction for "veh" to replace to "vehicle". I
also had an autocorrect for "/" to replace with "?". When I typed "veh" and
then "?" simultaneouly, "veh" would be corrected to "vehicle" and "/" would
be corrected to "?" (so it would be vehicle?) In Word 2002, "veh" stays as
"veh", but "/" gets corrected to "?" (so it is veh?).
Why won't the same things work in Word 2002 as it did in Word 97?

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

An AutoCorrect entry doesn't take effect until you type a space or
punctuation character after it.

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On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 16:40:01 -0700, Kim
wrote:

In Word 2002 when using two auto corrections one right after another only the
last one will correct itself? Any help?