use of "auto-correct" to speed up typing.

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AlastairW - 23 May 2006 12:07 GMT

As a lawyer, I use the auto-correct facility to speed up typing, by putting
two or three letter abbreviations for much longer words or phrases, such as
"ic" for "Information Commissioner", or "ccc" for the name of the current
client I am doing some work for. It would be more useful if particular
abbreviations could be confined to particular files or sub-directories, so
that, say, the same abbreviation "ccc" could be used to mean something else
when I was working on a different case whose documents I store in a different
sub-directory.

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Dave Lett - 23 May 2006 12:40 GMT

Hi,

Since AutoCorrect entries are stored in the template, you can do this by
attaching the documents in a specific folder to a different template.

Dave

> As a lawyer, I use the auto-correct facility to speed up typing, by
> putting
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Greg Maxey - 23 May 2006 13:26 GMT

Dave,

I could be wrong, but I am pretty sure that AutoCorrect is in an ACI
file universal to the Word application. AutoText is however store in
templates.

The OP could have a template for case files. In that template he could
have a bookmark for "Client_Name" then create a { REF Client_Name" }
and save it as an AutoText entry e.g.,
curclient.

Anytime he types curc and presses enter it would create a REF field to
the current client bookmark name.

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Graham Mayor - 23 May 2006 14:36 GMT

Where autocorrect entries are stored depends on whether the entry is
formatted or not. Formatted autocorrect entries are stored in normal.dot,
unformatted entries in ACL files.

For a much more powerful approach to autocorrect entries, which can employ a
raft of different subsets (you can also use the same name for several
similar entries and on entering the sequence you are offered a list from
which to pick) - investigate GhostTyperXML -
http://www.sc-data.de/ghosttyper/en/index.php3?nav=Download which I find
invaluable for storing repetitive texts for use in these ngs.

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> Dave,
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> Anytime he types curc and presses enter it would create a REF field to
> the current client bookmark name.

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