Re: A problem with Autocorrect in Word 2007

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Who could have guessed that creating a formatted AutoText entry would make
it work correctly!

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote in message
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A good portion of Microsoft Office was rewritten starting with Office 2000
to have features be more language centric.

If you delete the entry for ... that is already in Autocorrect (Alt, T, A)
then in your document type the dot space combination you
want, select it and return to the Autocorrect dialog (Alt, T, A) and
choose 'formatted' rather than 'plain' text and type in your
dot as the item to be replaced then typing the dot should work after that
to change a dot to a dot space, although that result could
also produce some strange results in documents :)

If you don't want Word's grammar check then changing or suggesting how
many spaces to have at the end of a sentence then when you
have selected the dot+space in your document you are going to use to
create your AUtocorrect shortcut, before using Alt, T, A use
Review=>Proofing=>Set Language
and turn on the 'Do not check spelling or grammar' for that entry.

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<<"tomaju" <tomaju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,


thanks for your suggestion, but I think it won't solve my problem. :-|

Why? Because in my Autocorrect database I've got dozens of entires
("shortcuts")
such as replace "a" with "first text", replace "b" with "second text" etc.

And, any of those entires may be placed at the end of sentence - so when I
type
a dot mark after them, I'd like to Word replace both: a "shortcut" and a
dot
mark.

According to your suggestion, I'd have to manually add to Autocorrect
database
an extra record to ALL entires with a dot mark included. Lot of work...

But the question is: why the problem we're talking (writing) about didn't
occured
in Word 97???

Thanks in advance for any help. :-)
Best regards.>>
--

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*




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