Word autofills words that allready appear in the document

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When writing reports i get frustrated with having to type long words over and
over again. It would be so much quicker to just be able to autofill those
long and difficult words that you use often. .
 
Hi Ike

Have you investigated AutoText and AutoCorrect?

As a quick test, type a phrase or a paragraph that you need to type often.
Select it. Insert > Autotext > Autotext. Give it a name and click Add.

Now, in your document, type the first four characters in the name, and you
should see a little pop up appear. Press Enter. Or, type the full name of
your AutoText and press F3. Or, choose from the Insert > AutoText menu.

You can save whole pages of text, diagrams, tables, anything at all as an
AutoText and insert it with just a few keystrokes.

AutoCorrect works in a similar way, but Word inserts your phrase or text
instantly. Tools > AutoCorrect Options.

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
 
When writing reports i get frustrated with having to type long words over and
over again. It would be so much quicker to just be able to autofill those
long and difficult words that you use often. .
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Yes, Word has had that feature for several years now, probably longer than I
know, and I've been using it since Word 98.

In addition to Shauna's post, see here, especially the first two links.

http://word.mvps.org/faqs/customization/AutoCorrect.htm

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AutoText.htm

http://word.mvps.org/faqs/tblsfldsfms/AutoTextList.htm

To save and exchange AutoCorrect across computers or re-installations:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/ExportAutocorrect.htm
 
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