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Hi,
I am setting up a template for work with autotext entries included. However i would like to organise the autotext entries, in one menu i.e. from the autotext menu click "all entries" then click "Standard Paragraphs" then select the appropriate auto text. Is this possible, and if so how would I need to go about arranging this. Thanks Marc |
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AutoText is organized according to the style applied to the entries. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/AutoTextList.htm for an explanation. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Marc Cowlin" wrote in message ... Hi, I am setting up a template for work with autotext entries included. However i would like to organise the autotext entries, in one menu i.e. from the autotext menu click "all entries" then click "Standard Paragraphs" then select the appropriate auto text. Is this possible, and if so how would I need to go about arranging this. Thanks Marc |
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Susanne,
Seems to me there is a way to organize the autotext menu hierarchically...I seem to recall some years ago I had an autotext menu set up so that when I'd choose Insert Autotext I'd get a pulldown menu showing major categories of autotexts and then by selecting a category I'd get a second sub-menu containing just those autotexts. I don't recall how I did it, but it was very useful...you could hold the mouse button down and navigate through the hierarchy to find any sub-autotext item. Could this also be done for autotextlists? Or am I mixing up one recollection with something else? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: AutoText is organized according to the style applied to the entries. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/AutoTextList.htm for an explanation. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Marc Cowlin" wrote in message ... Hi, I am setting up a template for work with autotext entries included. However i would like to organise the autotext entries, in one menu i.e. from the autotext menu click "all entries" then click "Standard Paragraphs" then select the appropriate auto text. Is this possible, and if so how would I need to go about arranging this. Thanks Marc |
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What you are remembering is the default AutoText menu. Each submenu
represents a particular style. I don't believe you could do this with an AutoTextList because it has to be all one style. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JustSomeGuy" wrote in message ... Susanne, Seems to me there is a way to organize the autotext menu hierarchically...I seem to recall some years ago I had an autotext menu set up so that when I'd choose Insert Autotext I'd get a pulldown menu showing major categories of autotexts and then by selecting a category I'd get a second sub-menu containing just those autotexts. I don't recall how I did it, but it was very useful...you could hold the mouse button down and navigate through the hierarchy to find any sub-autotext item. Could this also be done for autotextlists? Or am I mixing up one recollection with something else? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: AutoText is organized according to the style applied to the entries. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/AutoTextList.htm for an explanation. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Marc Cowlin" wrote in message ... Hi, I am setting up a template for work with autotext entries included. However i would like to organise the autotext entries, in one menu i.e. from the autotext menu click "all entries" then click "Standard Paragraphs" then select the appropriate auto text. Is this possible, and if so how would I need to go about arranging this. Thanks Marc |
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Yep, you are probably right...and M'soft doesn't let us modify the default
autotext menu, as far as I can tell - too bad. It would be a nice feature to be able to stuff a lot more content into the autotext menus via hierarchical submenus. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What you are remembering is the default AutoText menu. Each submenu represents a particular style. I don't believe you could do this with an AutoTextList because it has to be all one style. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JustSomeGuy" wrote in message ... Susanne, Seems to me there is a way to organize the autotext menu hierarchically...I seem to recall some years ago I had an autotext menu set up so that when I'd choose Insert Autotext I'd get a pulldown menu showing major categories of autotexts and then by selecting a category I'd get a second sub-menu containing just those autotexts. I don't recall how I did it, but it was very useful...you could hold the mouse button down and navigate through the hierarchy to find any sub-autotext item. Could this also be done for autotextlists? Or am I mixing up one recollection with something else? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: AutoText is organized according to the style applied to the entries. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/AutoTextList.htm for an explanation. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Marc Cowlin" wrote in message ... Hi, I am setting up a template for work with autotext entries included. However i would like to organise the autotext entries, in one menu i.e. from the autotext menu click "all entries" then click "Standard Paragraphs" then select the appropriate auto text. Is this possible, and if so how would I need to go about arranging this. Thanks Marc |
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To clarify: you can get these submenus by defining new styles and creating
AutoText entries in those styles. You just can't get submenus in an AutoTextList field. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JustSomeGuy" wrote in message ... Yep, you are probably right...and M'soft doesn't let us modify the default autotext menu, as far as I can tell - too bad. It would be a nice feature to be able to stuff a lot more content into the autotext menus via hierarchical submenus. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What you are remembering is the default AutoText menu. Each submenu represents a particular style. I don't believe you could do this with an AutoTextList because it has to be all one style. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JustSomeGuy" wrote in message ... Susanne, Seems to me there is a way to organize the autotext menu hierarchically...I seem to recall some years ago I had an autotext menu set up so that when I'd choose Insert Autotext I'd get a pulldown menu showing major categories of autotexts and then by selecting a category I'd get a second sub-menu containing just those autotexts. I don't recall how I did it, but it was very useful...you could hold the mouse button down and navigate through the hierarchy to find any sub-autotext item. Could this also be done for autotextlists? Or am I mixing up one recollection with something else? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: AutoText is organized according to the style applied to the entries. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/AutoTextList.htm for an explanation. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Marc Cowlin" wrote in message ... Hi, I am setting up a template for work with autotext entries included. However i would like to organise the autotext entries, in one menu i.e. from the autotext menu click "all entries" then click "Standard Paragraphs" then select the appropriate auto text. Is this possible, and if so how would I need to go about arranging this. Thanks Marc |
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Suzanne, I read the MVP article but still don't grasp how you would control
what appears in the autotext menu scheme below... ie, by using styles, how would you control what a 'level one' item would be (i.e. "Region")? How you would get "Region 1 Managers" to be a first sub-choice under "Region"? And how would you make the actual region manager names in each region, appear under Region 1, Region 2, etc? Region Region 1 Managers Joe Smith Pete Jones Region 2 Managers Suzanne Barnhill Barney Fyfe ....etc. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: To clarify: you can get these submenus by defining new styles and creating AutoText entries in those styles. You just can't get submenus in an AutoTextList field. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JustSomeGuy" wrote in message ... Yep, you are probably right...and M'soft doesn't let us modify the default autotext menu, as far as I can tell - too bad. It would be a nice feature to be able to stuff a lot more content into the autotext menus via hierarchical submenus. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What you are remembering is the default AutoText menu. Each submenu represents a particular style. I don't believe you could do this with an AutoTextList because it has to be all one style. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JustSomeGuy" wrote in message ... Susanne, Seems to me there is a way to organize the autotext menu hierarchically...I seem to recall some years ago I had an autotext menu set up so that when I'd choose Insert Autotext I'd get a pulldown menu showing major categories of autotexts and then by selecting a category I'd get a second sub-menu containing just those autotexts. I don't recall how I did it, but it was very useful...you could hold the mouse button down and navigate through the hierarchy to find any sub-autotext item. Could this also be done for autotextlists? Or am I mixing up one recollection with something else? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: AutoText is organized according to the style applied to the entries. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/AutoTextList.htm for an explanation. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Marc Cowlin" wrote in message ... Hi, I am setting up a template for work with autotext entries included. However i would like to organise the autotext entries, in one menu i.e. from the autotext menu click "all entries" then click "Standard Paragraphs" then select the appropriate auto text. Is this possible, and if so how would I need to go about arranging this. Thanks Marc |
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The AutoText menu isn't that flexible. You can only get one level of
organization, strictly by the style names. So if the styles are named Region 1 Managers, Region 2 Managers, etc. then you can get Region 1 Managers Joe Smith Pete Jones Region 2 Managers Suzanne Barnhill Barney Fyfe but you can't put a Region heading over the whole mess. -- 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. On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 14:56:00 -0800, JustSomeGuy wrote: Suzanne, I read the MVP article but still don't grasp how you would control what appears in the autotext menu scheme below... ie, by using styles, how would you control what a 'level one' item would be (i.e. "Region")? How you would get "Region 1 Managers" to be a first sub-choice under "Region"? And how would you make the actual region manager names in each region, appear under Region 1, Region 2, etc? Region Region 1 Managers Joe Smith Pete Jones Region 2 Managers Suzanne Barnhill Barney Fyfe ...etc. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: To clarify: you can get these submenus by defining new styles and creating AutoText entries in those styles. You just can't get submenus in an AutoTextList field. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JustSomeGuy" wrote in message ... Yep, you are probably right...and M'soft doesn't let us modify the default autotext menu, as far as I can tell - too bad. It would be a nice feature to be able to stuff a lot more content into the autotext menus via hierarchical submenus. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What you are remembering is the default AutoText menu. Each submenu represents a particular style. I don't believe you could do this with an AutoTextList because it has to be all one style. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JustSomeGuy" wrote in message ... Susanne, Seems to me there is a way to organize the autotext menu hierarchically...I seem to recall some years ago I had an autotext menu set up so that when I'd choose Insert Autotext I'd get a pulldown menu showing major categories of autotexts and then by selecting a category I'd get a second sub-menu containing just those autotexts. I don't recall how I did it, but it was very useful...you could hold the mouse button down and navigate through the hierarchy to find any sub-autotext item. Could this also be done for autotextlists? Or am I mixing up one recollection with something else? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: AutoText is organized according to the style applied to the entries. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/AutoTextList.htm for an explanation. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Marc Cowlin" wrote in message ... Hi, I am setting up a template for work with autotext entries included. However i would like to organise the autotext entries, in one menu i.e. from the autotext menu click "all entries" then click "Standard Paragraphs" then select the appropriate auto text. Is this possible, and if so how would I need to go about arranging this. Thanks Marc |
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Jay, it's hard to believe someone in the world hasn't figured out some kind
of Word add-in or utility that would give users the ability to EASILY set up a multi level hierarchical menu set with links to chunks of information embedded at various levels so that a writer could cruise effortlessly through the menu tree (akin to cruising javascript rollover menus on a web page) and wherever he/she released the mouse button, the information 'chunk' stored in that menu location would drop into the word document at the cursor location. The utility could store those 'chunks' in individual word.docs, all formatted and styled, ready for extraction/pasting by the menu utility. It's such an intuitive no-brainer of an idea, and it could make multiple-choice selection of data a breeze! But if it's out there somewhere, I haven't found it yet, despite many hours of googling.... AutoText is OK but it's so greatly limited in its utility....a great idea that for some reason maybe got back-burnered by the Word development staff. Seems to me such a WYSIWYG utility would be extremely popular with much of Earth's Word user community, don't you think? "Jay Freedman" wrote: The AutoText menu isn't that flexible. You can only get one level of organization, strictly by the style names. So if the styles are named Region 1 Managers, Region 2 Managers, etc. then you can get Region 1 Managers Joe Smith Pete Jones Region 2 Managers Suzanne Barnhill Barney Fyfe but you can't put a Region heading over the whole mess. -- 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. On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 14:56:00 -0800, JustSomeGuy wrote: Suzanne, I read the MVP article but still don't grasp how you would control what appears in the autotext menu scheme below... ie, by using styles, how would you control what a 'level one' item would be (i.e. "Region")? How you would get "Region 1 Managers" to be a first sub-choice under "Region"? And how would you make the actual region manager names in each region, appear under Region 1, Region 2, etc? Region Region 1 Managers Joe Smith Pete Jones Region 2 Managers Suzanne Barnhill Barney Fyfe ...etc. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: To clarify: you can get these submenus by defining new styles and creating AutoText entries in those styles. You just can't get submenus in an AutoTextList field. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JustSomeGuy" wrote in message ... Yep, you are probably right...and M'soft doesn't let us modify the default autotext menu, as far as I can tell - too bad. It would be a nice feature to be able to stuff a lot more content into the autotext menus via hierarchical submenus. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What you are remembering is the default AutoText menu. Each submenu represents a particular style. I don't believe you could do this with an AutoTextList because it has to be all one style. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JustSomeGuy" wrote in message ... Susanne, Seems to me there is a way to organize the autotext menu hierarchically...I seem to recall some years ago I had an autotext menu set up so that when I'd choose Insert Autotext I'd get a pulldown menu showing major categories of autotexts and then by selecting a category I'd get a second sub-menu containing just those autotexts. I don't recall how I did it, but it was very useful...you could hold the mouse button down and navigate through the hierarchy to find any sub-autotext item. Could this also be done for autotextlists? Or am I mixing up one recollection with something else? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: AutoText is organized according to the style applied to the entries. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/AutoTextList.htm for an explanation. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Marc Cowlin" wrote in message ... Hi, I am setting up a template for work with autotext entries included. However i would like to organise the autotext entries, in one menu i.e. from the autotext menu click "all entries" then click "Standard Paragraphs" then select the appropriate auto text. Is this possible, and if so how would I need to go about arranging this. Thanks Marc |
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You can create a menu item with any name you like (Region, for example) and
then have a submenu for the AutoText entries. The limitation would be that if a style that had no AutoText entries was in use, your AutoText menu would show all entries, and if you were using a given Region style, you'd see only the entries for that style, so there wouldn't be much point in the extra mouse click to get to them. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "JustSomeGuy" wrote in message ... Jay, it's hard to believe someone in the world hasn't figured out some kind of Word add-in or utility that would give users the ability to EASILY set up a multi level hierarchical menu set with links to chunks of information embedded at various levels so that a writer could cruise effortlessly through the menu tree (akin to cruising javascript rollover menus on a web page) and wherever he/she released the mouse button, the information 'chunk' stored in that menu location would drop into the word document at the cursor location. The utility could store those 'chunks' in individual word.docs, all formatted and styled, ready for extraction/pasting by the menu utility. It's such an intuitive no-brainer of an idea, and it could make multiple-choice selection of data a breeze! But if it's out there somewhere, I haven't found it yet, despite many hours of googling.... AutoText is OK but it's so greatly limited in its utility....a great idea that for some reason maybe got back-burnered by the Word development staff. Seems to me such a WYSIWYG utility would be extremely popular with much of Earth's Word user community, don't you think? "Jay Freedman" wrote: The AutoText menu isn't that flexible. You can only get one level of organization, strictly by the style names. So if the styles are named Region 1 Managers, Region 2 Managers, etc. then you can get Region 1 Managers Joe Smith Pete Jones Region 2 Managers Suzanne Barnhill Barney Fyfe but you can't put a Region heading over the whole mess. -- 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. On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 14:56:00 -0800, JustSomeGuy wrote: Suzanne, I read the MVP article but still don't grasp how you would control what appears in the autotext menu scheme below... ie, by using styles, how would you control what a 'level one' item would be (i.e. "Region")? How you would get "Region 1 Managers" to be a first sub-choice under "Region"? And how would you make the actual region manager names in each region, appear under Region 1, Region 2, etc? Region Region 1 Managers Joe Smith Pete Jones Region 2 Managers Suzanne Barnhill Barney Fyfe ...etc. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: To clarify: you can get these submenus by defining new styles and creating AutoText entries in those styles. You just can't get submenus in an AutoTextList field. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JustSomeGuy" wrote in message ... Yep, you are probably right...and M'soft doesn't let us modify the default autotext menu, as far as I can tell - too bad. It would be a nice feature to be able to stuff a lot more content into the autotext menus via hierarchical submenus. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What you are remembering is the default AutoText menu. Each submenu represents a particular style. I don't believe you could do this with an AutoTextList because it has to be all one style. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JustSomeGuy" wrote in message ... Susanne, Seems to me there is a way to organize the autotext menu hierarchically...I seem to recall some years ago I had an autotext menu set up so that when I'd choose Insert Autotext I'd get a pulldown menu showing major categories of autotexts and then by selecting a category I'd get a second sub-menu containing just those autotexts. I don't recall how I did it, but it was very useful...you could hold the mouse button down and navigate through the hierarchy to find any sub-autotext item. Could this also be done for autotextlists? Or am I mixing up one recollection with something else? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: AutoText is organized according to the style applied to the entries. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/AutoTextList.htm for an explanation. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Marc Cowlin" wrote in message ... Hi, I am setting up a template for work with autotext entries included. However i would like to organise the autotext entries, in one menu i.e. from the autotext menu click "all entries" then click "Standard Paragraphs" then select the appropriate auto text. Is this possible, and if so how would I need to go about arranging this. Thanks Marc |
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See http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Populate_UserForm_ListBox.htm
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org JustSomeGuy wrote: Jay, it's hard to believe someone in the world hasn't figured out some kind of Word add-in or utility that would give users the ability to EASILY set up a multi level hierarchical menu set with links to chunks of information embedded at various levels so that a writer could cruise effortlessly through the menu tree (akin to cruising javascript rollover menus on a web page) and wherever he/she released the mouse button, the information 'chunk' stored in that menu location would drop into the word document at the cursor location. The utility could store those 'chunks' in individual word.docs, all formatted and styled, ready for extraction/pasting by the menu utility. It's such an intuitive no-brainer of an idea, and it could make multiple-choice selection of data a breeze! But if it's out there somewhere, I haven't found it yet, despite many hours of googling.... AutoText is OK but it's so greatly limited in its utility....a great idea that for some reason maybe got back-burnered by the Word development staff. Seems to me such a WYSIWYG utility would be extremely popular with much of Earth's Word user community, don't you think? "Jay Freedman" wrote: The AutoText menu isn't that flexible. You can only get one level of organization, strictly by the style names. So if the styles are named Region 1 Managers, Region 2 Managers, etc. then you can get Region 1 Managers Joe Smith Pete Jones Region 2 Managers Suzanne Barnhill Barney Fyfe but you can't put a Region heading over the whole mess. -- 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. On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 14:56:00 -0800, JustSomeGuy wrote: Suzanne, I read the MVP article but still don't grasp how you would control what appears in the autotext menu scheme below... ie, by using styles, how would you control what a 'level one' item would be (i.e. "Region")? How you would get "Region 1 Managers" to be a first sub-choice under "Region"? And how would you make the actual region manager names in each region, appear under Region 1, Region 2, etc? Region Region 1 Managers Joe Smith Pete Jones Region 2 Managers Suzanne Barnhill Barney Fyfe ...etc. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: To clarify: you can get these submenus by defining new styles and creating AutoText entries in those styles. You just can't get submenus in an AutoTextList field. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JustSomeGuy" wrote in message ... Yep, you are probably right...and M'soft doesn't let us modify the default autotext menu, as far as I can tell - too bad. It would be a nice feature to be able to stuff a lot more content into the autotext menus via hierarchical submenus. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What you are remembering is the default AutoText menu. Each submenu represents a particular style. I don't believe you could do this with an AutoTextList because it has to be all one style. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "JustSomeGuy" wrote in message ... Susanne, Seems to me there is a way to organize the autotext menu hierarchically...I seem to recall some years ago I had an autotext menu set up so that when I'd choose Insert Autotext I'd get a pulldown menu showing major categories of autotexts and then by selecting a category I'd get a second sub-menu containing just those autotexts. I don't recall how I did it, but it was very useful...you could hold the mouse button down and navigate through the hierarchy to find any sub-autotext item. Could this also be done for autotextlists? Or am I mixing up one recollection with something else? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: AutoText is organized according to the style applied to the entries. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/AutoTextList.htm for an explanation. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Marc Cowlin" wrote in message ... Hi, I am setting up a template for work with autotext entries included. However i would like to organise the autotext entries, in one menu i.e. from the autotext menu click "all entries" then click "Standard Paragraphs" then select the appropriate auto text. Is this possible, and if so how would I need to go about arranging this. Thanks Marc |
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Suzanne, many thanks for the ideas; Graham, thanks for that link - and
profound thanks to Greg and Doug for their genius! I just sent Greg a PayPal donation for the UserForm ListBox schema. Brilliant! "Graham Mayor" wrote: See http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Populate_UserForm_ListBox.htm |
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