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Automatically apply bold formatting as I type
I would like Word to automatically apply bold formatting to the word "shall"
whenever I type it. Can I use autocorrect to do that? I see two radio buttons, one called "Plain text" and another called "Formatted Text", but I couldn't get them to do anything. |
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Automatically apply bold formatting as I type
To do this open a blank document and type the word "shall" (without quotes)
and then highlight it and click bold. With that word highlighted click Tools, AutoCorrect Options. You should see the word in the right side of the two-part window. Insert a dot for Formatted Text and type your word "shall" in the right side for "Replace." Close Autocorrect and test it by typing a sentence with the word in it. Henceforth every instance of that word should show up in bold in every single Word document. (Until you delete the AutoCorrect entry.) If this is overkill and you don't really want this for each and every instance of the word in each and every Word document you have a few alternatives. If you only want to do this occasionally you could accomplish the same thing using Find and Replace in an individual document. If you want to do this pretty often, but not all the time, you could also make a macro to search for the word in a particular document and make sure it is in bold. "noodles" wrote in message ... I would like Word to automatically apply bold formatting to the word "shall" whenever I type it. Can I use autocorrect to do that? I see two radio buttons, one called "Plain text" and another called "Formatted Text", but I couldn't get them to do anything. |
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Automatically apply bold formatting as I type
Record a macro that:
Ctrl+F and type shall (with a space before and a space after it). In the replace with type the same thing, then hit MORE, then hit Format--Font, and choose bold. Replace all. Stop recording. http://www.officearticles.com/word/r...osoft_word.htm ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "noodles" wrote in message ... I would like Word to automatically apply bold formatting to the word "shall" whenever I type it. Can I use autocorrect to do that? I see two radio buttons, one called "Plain text" and another called "Formatted Text", but I couldn't get them to do anything. |
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Automatically apply bold formatting as I type
That's exactly what I needed and it worked like a charm.
Thank you Joe. "Joe McGuire" wrote: To do this open a blank document and type the word "shall" (without quotes) and then highlight it and click bold. With that word highlighted click Tools, AutoCorrect Options. You should see the word in the right side of the two-part window. Insert a dot for Formatted Text and type your word "shall" in the right side for "Replace." Close Autocorrect and test it by typing a sentence with the word in it. Henceforth every instance of that word should show up in bold in every single Word document. (Until you delete the AutoCorrect entry.) If this is overkill and you don't really want this for each and every instance of the word in each and every Word document you have a few alternatives. If you only want to do this occasionally you could accomplish the same thing using Find and Replace in an individual document. If you want to do this pretty often, but not all the time, you could also make a macro to search for the word in a particular document and make sure it is in bold. "noodles" wrote in message ... I would like Word to automatically apply bold formatting to the word "shall" whenever I type it. Can I use autocorrect to do that? I see two radio buttons, one called "Plain text" and another called "Formatted Text", but I couldn't get them to do anything. |
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Automatically apply bold formatting as I type
I tested this, but couldn't get it to work. Since you say it did, it's
probably because I already had tried it using autotext. LOL. ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Joe McGuire" wrote in message ... To do this open a blank document and type the word "shall" (without quotes) and then highlight it and click bold. With that word highlighted click Tools, AutoCorrect Options. You should see the word in the right side of the two-part window. Insert a dot for Formatted Text and type your word "shall" in the right side for "Replace." Close Autocorrect and test it by typing a sentence with the word in it. Henceforth every instance of that word should show up in bold in every single Word document. (Until you delete the AutoCorrect entry.) If this is overkill and you don't really want this for each and every instance of the word in each and every Word document you have a few alternatives. If you only want to do this occasionally you could accomplish the same thing using Find and Replace in an individual document. If you want to do this pretty often, but not all the time, you could also make a macro to search for the word in a particular document and make sure it is in bold. "noodles" wrote in message ... I would like Word to automatically apply bold formatting to the word "shall" whenever I type it. Can I use autocorrect to do that? I see two radio buttons, one called "Plain text" and another called "Formatted Text", but I couldn't get them to do anything. |
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Automatically apply bold formatting as I type
Hmm. Not sure why it won't work for you. You can try something totally
goofy, such as replacing "shall" with, say, xxx. If that works, then delete it and follow my suggestion to "Noodles." You have to put a dot in the spot for Formatted Text so that the bold formatting will be applied. Otherwise it will replace "shall" with "shall" but it will look like nothing happened. I use this method for adding foreign words that have accents, umlauts and the like which cannot be directly typed into an AutoCorrect box. "Anne Troy" wrote in message ... I tested this, but couldn't get it to work. Since you say it did, it's probably because I already had tried it using autotext. LOL. ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Joe McGuire" wrote in message ... To do this open a blank document and type the word "shall" (without quotes) and then highlight it and click bold. With that word highlighted click Tools, AutoCorrect Options. You should see the word in the right side of the two-part window. Insert a dot for Formatted Text and type your word "shall" in the right side for "Replace." Close Autocorrect and test it by typing a sentence with the word in it. Henceforth every instance of that word should show up in bold in every single Word document. (Until you delete the AutoCorrect entry.) If this is overkill and you don't really want this for each and every instance of the word in each and every Word document you have a few alternatives. If you only want to do this occasionally you could accomplish the same thing using Find and Replace in an individual document. If you want to do this pretty often, but not all the time, you could also make a macro to search for the word in a particular document and make sure it is in bold. "noodles" wrote in message ... I would like Word to automatically apply bold formatting to the word "shall" whenever I type it. Can I use autocorrect to do that? I see two radio buttons, one called "Plain text" and another called "Formatted Text", but I couldn't get them to do anything. |
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