[bluebottle]

I work in a company in the UK which works with Norwegian clients a lot, often people with å in their name. I want to set up people's computers so when the type aaa in a word, it comes out with å. Eg. if they type 'Paaal' they get the name 'Pål'.

When I program autocorrect to change aaa to å it only does it when aaa is typed as a word, not within a word.

Is there a character I can use as a wildcard, or some other way to get autocorrect to do this?

[Jay Freedman]

There is no way to make AutoCorrect do what you propose.

However, there is a default keyboard shortcut for that character: press Ctrl
and @ together, then release them and press the a key. If you want to change
that to a simpler shortcut, use the Shortcut Key button in the Insert
Symbols dialog (see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/InsertSpecChars.htm
for more details).

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Jay Freedman
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bluebottle wrote:
I work in a company in the UK which works with Norwegian clients a
lot, often people with å in their name. I want to set up people's
computers so when the type aaa in a word, it comes out with å. Eg. if
they type 'Paaal' they get the name 'Pål'.

When I program autocorrect to change aaa to å it only does it when aaa
is typed as a word, not within a word.

Is there a character I can use as a wildcard, or some other way to get
autocorrect to do this?

[Jay Freedman]

There is no way to make AutoCorrect do what you propose.

However, there is a default keyboard shortcut for that character: press Ctrl
and @ together, then release them and press the a key. If you want to change
that to a simpler shortcut, use the Shortcut Key button in the Insert
Symbols dialog (see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/InsertSpecChars.htm
for more details).

--
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.

bluebottle wrote:
I work in a company in the UK which works with Norwegian clients a
lot, often people with å in their name. I want to set up people's
computers so when the type aaa in a word, it comes out with å. Eg. if
they type 'Paaal' they get the name 'Pål'.

When I program autocorrect to change aaa to å it only does it when aaa
is typed as a word, not within a word.

Is there a character I can use as a wildcard, or some other way to get
autocorrect to do this?