Automatic # at end of sentence

[Mary]

Can you create an automatic # at the end of a sentence? If so, how?

 

[grammatim]

An automatic pound-sign??

Do you mean an "automatic space," whatever that would be? Don't you
touch the space bar after every word you type anyway?

I suppose you could make an AutoCorrect entry such that every time you
type a period, it inserts period+space instead. But how would you
train yourself _not_ to space after the last wod in every sentence?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I'm guessing Mary wants a number at the end of the sentence. But whether she
wants the sentences numbered or wants the number to be the number of words
in the sentence or what, we may never know.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

An automatic pound-sign??

Do you mean an "automatic space," whatever that would be? Don't you
touch the space bar after every word you type anyway?

I suppose you could make an AutoCorrect entry such that every time you
type a period, it inserts period+space instead. But how would you
train yourself _not_ to space after the last wod in every sentence?

 

[grammatim]

Can you insert a numbering field with AutoCorrect?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I'm not sure whether even formatted AutoCorrect entries can contain fields,
but AutoText entries certainly can. But I would guess Mary wants something
like the automatic paragraph numbers that you can add via Bullets and
Numbering. This is akin to the users who want page numbers before TOC
entries--something Word is just not set up to do.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Can you insert a numbering field with AutoCorrect?

 

[Stefan Blom]

For what it's worth, you can actually include fields in a formatted
AutoCorrect entry.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Thanks for the confirmationm, Stefan.