Thanks, Suzanne. It is less than a week since I made the switch from WP5.1
and I have changed my system so many times. I was initially using
AutoCorrect and I categorised each entry by adding a letter to it, for
example words relating to criminal cases had a "c" added to the abbreviation,
words relating to witnesses had the letter "w" added to the abbreviation and
so on. I found the disadvange with this was that if the word came at the end
of a sentence, I had to backspace before inserting a full stop or question
mark, whereas with AutoText there is no space after the word. I was
initially using AutoText for words requiring capitalisation. So "lab" became
Legal Aid Board in AutoText, while "lab" was laboratory in AutoCorrect. I
will check the link you gave me. It sounds good. Thanks for your
suggestions.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

You can set these up as AutoCorrect entries, and you won't even have to
press a key, they will just be converted automatically. The trick will be
getting these into the .acl file without having to enter them manually
(3,000 is a lot of entries). You might look at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...utocorrect.htm. This provides
a macro that backs up existing AutoCorrect entries to a text file. This file
can be edited to add your own entries and then "restored" to create a new
..acl file that will be used by Word.

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"Tipuana" wrote in message
...
No, sorry, this is not exactly what I wanted. This takes the WP5.1 macros
and creates a glossary list of them in AutoText. (And as I have over 3000
macros in WP, its quite a process.) It does not convert the actual
glossary
macros that are in WP. To go back to my example of my glossary of Latin
phrases, which is called LATIN.WPM in WP, it will not convert this macro.
What I actually want to do is to create new glossaries so that pressing
typing €œhc€� and then pressing a key (perhaps Alt-L) it will give me
honoris
causa. Likewise typing the same letters €œhp€� and pressing a different key
(perhaps Alt-C) will give me High Court in a list of names of courts. In
other words this is like having separate AutoText lists on different keys.

"macropod" wrote:

Hi Tipuana,

Microsoft's advice at the address below may be useful:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216706/en-us
Basically, it describes how you can convert you existing WP glossary
macros
to Word AutoText entries.


Cheers

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macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


"Tipuana" wrote in message
...
I am doing a quantum leap from working in WP5.1 for DOS to working in
Word.
In WP I had glossary macros. For instance I had created a list of
Latin
phrases on Ctrl-L. All I had to do was type the initial letters of a
Latin
phrase and then press Ctrl-L and the phrase would appear. Would it be
possible to create such macros in Word? Or, alternatively, is it
possible
to
have separate AutoText lists allocated to different keys? Any
suggestions
appreciated. Thanks.