NEED HELP with AUTO TEXT in MS WORD 2007

In Word 2007, the newly revised Auto Text is so cumbersome and complicated, that it is more trouble to use then to just type the darn text in yourself!!! Auto Text is now geared more for saving templates of documents than for saving text within a document that is repeated frequently. In the new Auto Text, I can’t figure out how to just reproduce little bits of text in a Word doc, like the old Auto Text used to so easily do. Can someone please help???

You used to be able to add your text with ONE click of Enter. Once the text was copied into Auto Text, all you had to do to insert it into your document, was to start typing that text in, and after typing the first few letters, the text appeared in a little message box, and all you had to do was to hit Enter.

Now there are cumbersome building blocks and galleries and categories and menus to fill out . . . I just want to be able to easily save some text or a name, and be able to reproduce it quickly and easily when I’m typing a document.

 

You could always try using AutoCorrect to do this. You'll just have to pick an abbreviated version of the phrase you want to use (such as TTYL for talk to you later) and enter that into part one of the AutoCorrect dialog box, so that when your typing your document, you'll just type the abbreviation and keep moving. Auto Correct will fill in the rest.

First, go to the Office Button then Word Options.

When Word Options opens click the Proofing tab.

Click AutoCorrect Options. When the window opens you'll enter the abbreviation you created for your phrase in the "Replace:" box. Then you'll enter the whole phrase in the "With:" box. Click the Add button near the bottom of the window. Click OK to close the AutoCorrect window then do the same for Word Options.

Test out the newly added AutoCorrect entry by typing your abbreviation then hitting space

Hope this helps out

Ricky

 

Thanks Ricky, your suggestion works very well. And you can enter the first few letters of the text right into the Auto Correct box, which works just as well as an abbreviation.

 

Hello, I have an additional question to this discussion. I want to add a list to the autocorrect instead of one word. Can anyone tell me how to do it? I have added the entries to the autotext but the screen tip doesnt show up.

Thank You

 

Every new version of MS office gets more annoying than the previous one. Word, Excel are so overwhelmingly and unnecessarily cumbersome and annoying that I stay with the 2000 version, much simpler and neater.They serve me, not the other way round.

 

You can type a list or add any text to AutoCorrect, I don't think that's the problem. Here's a tip that may help (I hope ): Triggering the new text to appear is slightly different in AutoCorrect, because you don't just start typing the first word, as you did in AutoText -- With AutoCorrect you have to type only the few letters you used to initiate the new text, and then hit the space bar or the Enter key. The text will then show up. If you type more than just those letters, the new text won't appear in the document. (So the only problem with AutoCorrect is that you have to remember what word or letters you originally used to trigger the new text. In order to successfully do this, I try to just use the first 3 or possibly 4 letters of the new text. That way, I know it's either one of those two options, and I don't have to try to remember any abreviations or code words. Hope this helps.