Comments on: Put Office's AutoCorrect feature to work for you

Customize the AutoCorrect option in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to make short work of long, common words.

Actually, in Office 2003 you could use the AutoText feature, which when you put an item in the list, just type the first four characters and hit enter. You could have an entire paragraph or just one word, and NO SHORTCUTS to remember. This feature was disabled in Office 2007 (much to my dismay) and replaced with building blocks.

[voigteav]

I was hoping to see the solution on how to add an Up-Arrow and Down-Arrow as there is for --> and <-- and <==.

Was thinking of using |^ and get Wingding 0xE1 typically... But the Formatted Text Button is greyed out when I try to do it and I end up getting á ???

Any suggetions??

[voigteav]

Found it!!
MS Word Autocorrect Tip:
Everyone uses the autocorrect feature in word (whether you know it or not), but its most powerful application is using it to display repeatedly used graphics and text with just a couple of keystrokes.

For example, if you have a signature containing a logo, which is used in a variety of documents,




Select the text and the image.

Select Tools|Autocorrect Options.
The Autocorrect dialogue box is displayed with the selected text appearing in the With: text box.

In the Replace: text area, type in an abbreviation, or a couple of characters that will represent the signature.

Click on Add and OK.

From any open document, type in the shortcut characters and press enter.


The text, including logo will appear.

And it DOES!

Thanks to http://blogs.usask.ca/ITSTrainingBlog/archive/training_schedule/did_you_know/

lots of nice tips!!!