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Autotext from Word 2007 to Windows Mail under Vista
How do I jury rig Mail to retrieve autotext entries (text, tables and
pictures) from Word 2007 with one click a la Word 2003 and Outlook under XP? Using the Vista Quick Parts autotext takes 9 steps. -- Ed Bacon |
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Autotext from Word 2007 to Windows Mail under Vista
Not possible. In Outlook you are intended to use Autocorrect.
The proper way to use Outlook is to attach the file using a template to create it in Word and there you can use AutoText. Outlook is an email programme not a word processing programme. You can add tables to quick parts though. "Ed Bacon" wrote in message ... How do I jury rig Mail to retrieve autotext entries (text, tables and pictures) from Word 2007 with one click a la Word 2003 and Outlook under XP? Using the Vista Quick Parts autotext takes 9 steps. -- Ed Bacon |
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Autotext from Word 2007 to Windows Mail under Vista
Was possible under XP with Word 2003 and Outlook. After I defined my
autotext entries (not Autocorrect) using Word 2003, I was able to select an autotext button on a toolbar while composing an Outlook message. One click and the autotext entry was inserted in my message -text,tables,pictures,whatever. With Vista, Word 2007, and Windows Mail, I can define autotext entries using Word 2007 and Quick Parts . Five strokes (4-character autotext name and F3) and I can insert the autotext entry in a Word 2007 document. However, when I'm composing a Mail message, I have no access to autotext. The nine steps involves creating and attaching a Word 2007 document with the autotext entry embedded. I want to cut down the nine steps to one. If you look at the autotext postings, this is the reason some people are retreating from Vista to XP. -- Ed Bacon "Summer" wrote: Not possible. In Outlook you are intended to use Autocorrect. The proper way to use Outlook is to attach the file using a template to create it in Word and there you can use AutoText. Outlook is an email programme not a word processing programme. You can add tables to quick parts though. "Ed Bacon" wrote in message ... How do I jury rig Mail to retrieve autotext entries (text, tables and pictures) from Word 2007 with one click a la Word 2003 and Outlook under XP? Using the Vista Quick Parts autotext takes 9 steps. -- Ed Bacon |
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Autotext from Word 2007 to Windows Mail under Vista
Outlook 2003 could be instructed to actually use Word 2003 for composing and
reading email. That option doesn't exist in Office 2007. Instead, Outlook 2007 uses its own editor. Even though it resembles Word in some respects, what you see is not really Word. Hence, its behavior is different. Even so... see if this can help trim a few steps. If you create Quick Parts in Outlook 2007, they will show up in the Quick Parts gallery. Once there, they can be inserted by typing the first few letters of their respective names, then pressing F3. (AutoComplete does not work for AutoText/Quick Parts in 2007). Or... if you need to see the gallery, you can make it more convenient by right-clicking on Quick Parts and adding it to the Quick Access Toolbar. Many find the QAT more convenient if it's displayed below the ribbon, rather than above. I hope this helps. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Ed Bacon" wrote in message news Was possible under XP with Word 2003 and Outlook. After I defined my autotext entries (not Autocorrect) using Word 2003, I was able to select an autotext button on a toolbar while composing an Outlook message. One click and the autotext entry was inserted in my message -text,tables,pictures,whatever. With Vista, Word 2007, and Windows Mail, I can define autotext entries using Word 2007 and Quick Parts . Five strokes (4-character autotext name and F3) and I can insert the autotext entry in a Word 2007 document. However, when I'm composing a Mail message, I have no access to autotext. The nine steps involves creating and attaching a Word 2007 document with the autotext entry embedded. I want to cut down the nine steps to one. If you look at the autotext postings, this is the reason some people are retreating from Vista to XP. -- Ed Bacon "Summer" wrote: Not possible. In Outlook you are intended to use Autocorrect. The proper way to use Outlook is to attach the file using a template to create it in Word and there you can use AutoText. Outlook is an email programme not a word processing programme. You can add tables to quick parts though. "Ed Bacon" wrote in message ... How do I jury rig Mail to retrieve autotext entries (text, tables and pictures) from Word 2007 with one click a la Word 2003 and Outlook under XP? Using the Vista Quick Parts autotext takes 9 steps. -- Ed Bacon |
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Autotext from Word 2007 to Windows Mail under Vista
Thanks. I've done all of the above already but it's 14 steps. Great
progress - one click in XP to 14 steps in Vista. Vista should have waited until 2008 for release - horrendous procedure for transfering e-mails and contacts, abandoning Front Page, no support for XP backup files on standard Sandisk flash drives, lost interrupts, ... ad nauseum. I will recommend to friends that they stay with XP until we pioneers pull all the arrows from our rear ends. -- Ed Bacon "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: Outlook 2003 could be instructed to actually use Word 2003 for composing and reading email. That option doesn't exist in Office 2007. Instead, Outlook 2007 uses its own editor. Even though it resembles Word in some respects, what you see is not really Word. Hence, its behavior is different. Even so... see if this can help trim a few steps. If you create Quick Parts in Outlook 2007, they will show up in the Quick Parts gallery. Once there, they can be inserted by typing the first few letters of their respective names, then pressing F3. (AutoComplete does not work for AutoText/Quick Parts in 2007). Or... if you need to see the gallery, you can make it more convenient by right-clicking on Quick Parts and adding it to the Quick Access Toolbar. Many find the QAT more convenient if it's displayed below the ribbon, rather than above. I hope this helps. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Ed Bacon" wrote in message news Was possible under XP with Word 2003 and Outlook. After I defined my autotext entries (not Autocorrect) using Word 2003, I was able to select an autotext button on a toolbar while composing an Outlook message. One click and the autotext entry was inserted in my message -text,tables,pictures,whatever. With Vista, Word 2007, and Windows Mail, I can define autotext entries using Word 2007 and Quick Parts . Five strokes (4-character autotext name and F3) and I can insert the autotext entry in a Word 2007 document. However, when I'm composing a Mail message, I have no access to autotext. The nine steps involves creating and attaching a Word 2007 document with the autotext entry embedded. I want to cut down the nine steps to one. If you look at the autotext postings, this is the reason some people are retreating from Vista to XP. -- Ed Bacon "Summer" wrote: Not possible. In Outlook you are intended to use Autocorrect. The proper way to use Outlook is to attach the file using a template to create it in Word and there you can use AutoText. Outlook is an email programme not a word processing programme. You can add tables to quick parts though. "Ed Bacon" wrote in message ... How do I jury rig Mail to retrieve autotext entries (text, tables and pictures) from Word 2007 with one click a la Word 2003 and Outlook under XP? Using the Vista Quick Parts autotext takes 9 steps. -- Ed Bacon |
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