Re: Autocorrect EVERY 'oin' to 'ion' if its wrong
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Date: 03/08/04
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Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 15:06:44 -0800
Thks Doug
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi Simon,
>
>Use a wildcard Edit>Replace with
>
>oin>
>
>in the Find What control and
>
>ion
>
>in the Replace With control
>
>For information on wildcard searches, see the
article "Finding and replacing
>characters using wildcards" at:
>
>http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/UsingWildcards.htm
>
>For information on importing and exporting AutoCorrect
entries, see the
>article "How can I import and export all my AutoCorrect
entries, so they can
>be transferred to another machine?" at:
>
>http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/ExportAutocorrect.
htm
>
>
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>
>Hope this helps
>Doug Robbins - Word MVP
>"simon.ansell@aut.ac.nz"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>message news:5bc001c4048f$fe8ec3a0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>> Hi
>>
>> I have a habit of typing 'oin' instead of 'ion' at the
end
>> of lots of words like "automation", "direction" etc.
As a
>> contractor I move from organisatoin (see !!!) to
>> organisation so have to add all 10,000 words to the
>> autocorrect of each new copy of Word I use.
>>
>> I would love to write some code which says:
>> 1) after each word is entered and the spellchecker
>> fires ...
>> 2) ... if the spellchecker detects an error and the word
>> ends "oin" then change it to "ion".
>>
>> I am quite happy writing reasonable VBA but am not sure
of
>> a) the code for gettign hold of Word Events, and b) what
>> events are involved in this case.
>>
>> Any assistance gratefully received - searching on MS
>> website for "handle events" doesn't help much.
>>
>> CHeers
>> SIMON
>
>
>.
>
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