There are a lot of acronyms in the field that I work in (mobile telecoms) and
often I don't have a clue what the acronym stands for.

What I would find very useful is some kind of lookup table in word where you
enter the acronym and it's meaning then when you are reading the document &
place the cursor over the acronym then it displays the meaning.

Does such a feature exist? It would be so useful for me as well as many
other people.

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Hi,

What you could do (in case you are online usually):
Put the "HyperlinkOpen" command on some toolbar or menu (Tools Customize,
Category: All commands).
Then change the hyperlink url to http://www.acronymfinder.com (right-click
on the button with the "Customize" dialog still open, and look at the bottom
of the context menu), and change the caption (top of the context menu) to
"Acronyms".

A click will then take you to the web site where you can look up the
acronym.

Regards,
Klaus


"Small Person" wrote:
There are a lot of acronyms in the field that I work in (mobile telecoms)
and
often I don't have a clue what the acronym stands for.

What I would find very useful is some kind of lookup table in word where
you
enter the acronym and it's meaning then when you are reading the document
&
place the cursor over the acronym then it displays the meaning.

Does such a feature exist? It would be so useful for me as well as many
other people.

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suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ic.word.tables