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I must not understand how to create a new autotext entry. I'm in W97.
I want to have two lower case letters that I type automatically bring up an autotext entry. I chose insertautotext. Since I had stored the content for the autotext entry in the clipboard, it does appear in the preview box. I have AutoComplete checked in the autotext dialog box. I named and saved the autotext entry with the two letters I plan to type to bring it up. When I now type these two letters, the ScreenTip does not appear, nor does the entry occur. Can someone please explain how I should be doing this? |
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The AutoComplete tip requires four unique characters to fire, so your
autotext entry name needs to be at least four characters long, and these first four characters have to be different from the first four characters of any other AutoText entry name. If you want the insertion to be triggered by just two letters, perhaps you'd be better off with AutoCorrect? -- 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. "cayce" wrote in message ... I must not understand how to create a new autotext entry. I'm in W97. I want to have two lower case letters that I type automatically bring up an autotext entry. I chose insertautotext. Since I had stored the content for the autotext entry in the clipboard, it does appear in the preview box. I have AutoComplete checked in the autotext dialog box. I named and saved the autotext entry with the two letters I plan to type to bring it up. When I now type these two letters, the ScreenTip does not appear, nor does the entry occur. Can someone please explain how I should be doing this? |
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Thanks Suzanne but I am still unsuccessful.
I left ScreenTip selected and changed the autotext entry to 4 characters in length, 1st with a number in it (ems1) , then with all letters in it (emsh). No automatic insertion. I then deselected the ScreenTip, and still no automatic entry. I then changed it from looking in all active templates to normal.dot (my documents mostly use normal.dot). Still no luck. I cannot use AutoCorrect since the text formatting I need in the automatically inserted entry isn't retained by Word (first 2 letters are roman, the next 3 letter are italicized and 2 points smaller font size then the first 2 letters). It is this putsy arrangement that is making me look for a quicker way to make this happen, for myself and my coworkers who are rightfully grumbling about this company product name construction. This isn't rocket science, but it feels like it. I thought I was following the Word help instructions. Is there something wrong with my process? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The AutoComplete tip requires four unique characters to fire, so your autotext entry name needs to be at least four characters long, and these first four characters have to be different from the first four characters of any other AutoText entry name. If you want the insertion to be triggered by just two letters, perhaps you'd be better off with AutoCorrect? -- 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. "cayce" wrote in message ... I must not understand how to create a new autotext entry. I'm in W97. I want to have two lower case letters that I type automatically bring up an autotext entry. I chose insertautotext. Since I had stored the content for the autotext entry in the clipboard, it does appear in the preview box. I have AutoComplete checked in the autotext dialog box. I named and saved the autotext entry with the two letters I plan to type to bring it up. When I now type these two letters, the ScreenTip does not appear, nor does the entry occur. Can someone please explain how I should be doing this? |
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You should be able to use an AutoCorrect entry. If you select the text
formatted as described, and go to Tools | AutoCorrect Options, you should see the text inserted and the "Formatted text" radio button selected. But you are saying that you don't get an AutoComplete tip? Make sure you have "Show AutoComplete suggestions" checked in the AutoText dialog. Note that there is no "automatic insertion." When you get the AutoComplete tip, you have to press Enter or Tab. -- 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. "cayce" wrote in message news  Thanks Suzanne but I am still unsuccessful. I left ScreenTip selected and changed the autotext entry to 4 characters in length, 1st with a number in it (ems1) , then with all letters in it (emsh). No automatic insertion. I then deselected the ScreenTip, and still no automatic entry. I then changed it from looking in all active templates to normal.dot (my documents mostly use normal.dot). Still no luck. I cannot use AutoCorrect since the text formatting I need in the automatically inserted entry isn't retained by Word (first 2 letters are roman, the next 3 letter are italicized and 2 points smaller font size then the first 2 letters). It is this putsy arrangement that is making me look for a quicker way to make this happen, for myself and my coworkers who are rightfully grumbling about this company product name construction. This isn't rocket science, but it feels like it. I thought I was following the Word help instructions. Is there something wrong with my process? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The AutoComplete tip requires four unique characters to fire, so your autotext entry name needs to be at least four characters long, and these first four characters have to be different from the first four characters of any other AutoText entry name. If you want the insertion to be triggered by just two letters, perhaps you'd be better off with AutoCorrect? -- 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. "cayce" wrote in message ... I must not understand how to create a new autotext entry. I'm in W97. I want to have two lower case letters that I type automatically bring up an autotext entry. I chose insertautotext. Since I had stored the content for the autotext entry in the clipboard, it does appear in the preview box. I have AutoComplete checked in the autotext dialog box. I named and saved the autotext entry with the two letters I plan to type to bring it up. When I now type these two letters, the ScreenTip does not appear, nor does the entry occur. Can someone please explain how I should be doing this? |
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Thanks Suzanne! I didn't notice that radio button before AND I discovered I
had a different AutoCorrect entry whose letters were bumping heads with my new choice (a duh! moment). AutoCorrect now has my entry and it is occurring when I type the two new letters I have assigned to it. This works great for new documents that will contain this product name. Now I am wondering if there is a quick way to replace the old product wording in existing documents to the new formatted construction. Find/replace doesnt recognize the formatting in the "Replace with" box. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You should be able to use an AutoCorrect entry. If you select the text formatted as described, and go to Tools | AutoCorrect Options, you should see the text inserted and the "Formatted text" radio button selected. But you are saying that you don't get an AutoComplete tip? Make sure you have "Show AutoComplete suggestions" checked in the AutoText dialog. Note that there is no "automatic insertion." When you get the AutoComplete tip, you have to press Enter or Tab. -- 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. "cayce" wrote in message news Thanks Suzanne but I am still unsuccessful. I left ScreenTip selected and changed the autotext entry to 4 characters in length, 1st with a number in it (ems1) , then with all letters in it (emsh). No automatic insertion. I then deselected the ScreenTip, and still no automatic entry. I then changed it from looking in all active templates to normal.dot (my documents mostly use normal.dot). Still no luck. I cannot use AutoCorrect since the text formatting I need in the automatically inserted entry isn't retained by Word (first 2 letters are roman, the next 3 letter are italicized and 2 points smaller font size then the first 2 letters). It is this putsy arrangement that is making me look for a quicker way to make this happen, for myself and my coworkers who are rightfully grumbling about this company product name construction. This isn't rocket science, but it feels like it. I thought I was following the Word help instructions. Is there something wrong with my process? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The AutoComplete tip requires four unique characters to fire, so your autotext entry name needs to be at least four characters long, and these first four characters have to be different from the first four characters of any other AutoText entry name. If you want the insertion to be triggered by just two letters, perhaps you'd be better off with AutoCorrect? -- 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. "cayce" wrote in message ... I must not understand how to create a new autotext entry. I'm in W97. I want to have two lower case letters that I type automatically bring up an autotext entry. I chose insertautotext. Since I had stored the content for the autotext entry in the clipboard, it does appear in the preview box. I have AutoComplete checked in the autotext dialog box. I named and saved the autotext entry with the two letters I plan to type to bring it up. When I now type these two letters, the ScreenTip does not appear, nor does the entry occur. Can someone please explain how I should be doing this? |
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Copy your formatted entry to the Clipboard and use ^c as your "Replace with"
term; it inserts the contents of the Clipboard. -- 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. "cayce" wrote in message ... Thanks Suzanne! I didn't notice that radio button before AND I discovered I had a different AutoCorrect entry whose letters were bumping heads with my new choice (a duh! moment). AutoCorrect now has my entry and it is occurring when I type the two new letters I have assigned to it. This works great for new documents that will contain this product name. Now I am wondering if there is a quick way to replace the old product wording in existing documents to the new formatted construction. Find/replace doesnt recognize the formatting in the "Replace with" box. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You should be able to use an AutoCorrect entry. If you select the text formatted as described, and go to Tools | AutoCorrect Options, you should see the text inserted and the "Formatted text" radio button selected. But you are saying that you don't get an AutoComplete tip? Make sure you have "Show AutoComplete suggestions" checked in the AutoText dialog. Note that there is no "automatic insertion." When you get the AutoComplete tip, you have to press Enter or Tab. -- 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. "cayce" wrote in message news Thanks Suzanne but I am still unsuccessful. I left ScreenTip selected and changed the autotext entry to 4 characters in length, 1st with a number in it (ems1) , then with all letters in it (emsh). No automatic insertion. I then deselected the ScreenTip, and still no automatic entry. I then changed it from looking in all active templates to normal.dot (my documents mostly use normal.dot). Still no luck. I cannot use AutoCorrect since the text formatting I need in the automatically inserted entry isn't retained by Word (first 2 letters are roman, the next 3 letter are italicized and 2 points smaller font size then the first 2 letters). It is this putsy arrangement that is making me look for a quicker way to make this happen, for myself and my coworkers who are rightfully grumbling about this company product name construction. This isn't rocket science, but it feels like it. I thought I was following the Word help instructions. Is there something wrong with my process? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The AutoComplete tip requires four unique characters to fire, so your autotext entry name needs to be at least four characters long, and these first four characters have to be different from the first four characters of any other AutoText entry name. If you want the insertion to be triggered by just two letters, perhaps you'd be better off with AutoCorrect? -- 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. "cayce" wrote in message ... I must not understand how to create a new autotext entry. I'm in W97. I want to have two lower case letters that I type automatically bring up an autotext entry. I chose insertautotext. Since I had stored the content for the autotext entry in the clipboard, it does appear in the preview box. I have AutoComplete checked in the autotext dialog box. I named and saved the autotext entry with the two letters I plan to type to bring it up. When I now type these two letters, the ScreenTip does not appear, nor does the entry occur. Can someone please explain how I should be doing this? |
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yahoo..this is a very useful thing to know. THANKS!
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Copy your formatted entry to the Clipboard and use ^c as your "Replace with" term; it inserts the contents of the Clipboard. -- 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. "cayce" wrote in message ... Thanks Suzanne! I didn't notice that radio button before AND I discovered I had a different AutoCorrect entry whose letters were bumping heads with my new choice (a duh! moment). AutoCorrect now has my entry and it is occurring when I type the two new letters I have assigned to it. This works great for new documents that will contain this product name. Now I am wondering if there is a quick way to replace the old product wording in existing documents to the new formatted construction. Find/replace doesnt recognize the formatting in the "Replace with" box. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You should be able to use an AutoCorrect entry. If you select the text formatted as described, and go to Tools | AutoCorrect Options, you should see the text inserted and the "Formatted text" radio button selected. But you are saying that you don't get an AutoComplete tip? Make sure you have "Show AutoComplete suggestions" checked in the AutoText dialog. Note that there is no "automatic insertion." When you get the AutoComplete tip, you have to press Enter or Tab. -- 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. "cayce" wrote in message news
Thanks Suzanne but I am still unsuccessful.I left ScreenTip selected and changed the autotext entry to 4 characters in length, 1st with a number in it (ems1) , then with all letters in it (emsh). No automatic insertion. I then deselected the ScreenTip, and still no automatic entry. I then changed it from looking in all active templates to normal.dot (my documents mostly use normal.dot). Still no luck. I cannot use AutoCorrect since the text formatting I need in the automatically inserted entry isn't retained by Word (first 2 letters are roman, the next 3 letter are italicized and 2 points smaller font size then the first 2 letters). It is this putsy arrangement that is making me look for a quicker way to make this happen, for myself and my coworkers who are rightfully grumbling about this company product name construction. This isn't rocket science, but it feels like it. I thought I was following the Word help instructions. Is there something wrong with my process? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The AutoComplete tip requires four unique characters to fire, so your autotext entry name needs to be at least four characters long, and these first four characters have to be different from the first four characters of any other AutoText entry name. If you want the insertion to be triggered by just two letters, perhaps you'd be better off with AutoCorrect? -- 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. "cayce" wrote in message ... I must not understand how to create a new autotext entry. I'm in W97. I want to have two lower case letters that I type automatically bring up an autotext entry. I chose insertautotext. Since I had stored the content for the autotext entry in the clipboard, it does appear in the preview box. I have AutoComplete checked in the autotext dialog box. I named and saved the autotext entry with the two letters I plan to type to bring it up. When I now type these two letters, the ScreenTip does not appear, nor does the entry occur. Can someone please explain how I should be doing this? |
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