Yours Faithfully

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When writing letters I like to end them Yours Faithfully, but Word always
suggests Yours truly. How can I change this setting?
 
Word suggests "Yours truly" because that is an AutoText entry. In Word,
click on Tools | AutoCorrect Options | AutoText. Scroll down to the end of
the list of AutoText entries, and you'll see the entry for "Yours truly".
You can add your own entry for "Yours faithfully" and delete the entry for
"Yours truly".
 
Patrick,

Yours truly, is an autotext entry created in the closing paragraph style.
No change this, you can go to Insert>Autotext>Autotext and click on look in
all active templates. In the list of autotext entries that appears, scroll
to and find Yours truly. Delete it, the type in Yours faithfully in and
click add. If you are asked to save changes to your template when you close
Word select yes.
 
Patrick_uk said:
When writing letters I like to end them Yours Faithfully, but Word
always suggests Yours truly. How can I change this setting?
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The suggestion you're seeing comes from the AutoText entries stored in the
Normal.dot template. You can add your own entries and have them suggested.

AutoText entries are classified by the paragraph style they have when you
create them. Since you want this to be like the Yours truly entry, type the
text

Yours Faithfully,

in a document and format it with the Closing style. Then select the text and
press Alt+F3. Word will ask for a name for the entry, and will suggest a
name that's the same as the selected text. That's OK, or you can select
another name. OKing the box will create the AutoText entry.

Now, when you type enough of the name to distinguish it from any other
entry's name, the suggestion will appear. In this case you'll have to type
yours f to get the suggestion. If you never want to use "Yours truly", you
can go to Insert > AutoText > AutoText, select that entry, and click Delete.
Then you can get the suggestion you want after typing only the first four
characters (that's the minimum).

See http://www.word.mvps.org/faqs/customization/AutoText.htm for more
information.
 
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