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[manny sue]

In order to help me remember auto text inserts I some times use a hyphen
along with the letters...ie. "aaa" for AAA," aaa-" for abdomianl aortic
aneurysm...either are used depending upon the context and the physician
dictating.

Another example "cad" for CAD and "cad-" for coronary artery disease.
The auto text entry always works with and without the hyphen, however
sometimes the hypen disappears and other times it remains at the end of the
phrase. This happens on the same page. I do not understand.

I am a longtime WordPerfect user and it always works correctly there so I do
not understand why the hyphen does not always disappear in MS Word. Am I
doing something wrong or can I do something to correct this problem?

Thank you,

 

[bunty]

The simple solution for this would be not to put the hyphen at the end
of the autotext entry

 

[Graham Mayor]

I suspect you mean autocorrect rather than autotext?

The problem you are encountering relates to the fact that autocorrect will
use the hyphen as a trigger to insert the entry. The issue is essentially
similar to that covered at
http://www.gmayor.com/avoiding_unwanted_capitalization.htm
You should be able to get round it quite simply by putting the hyphen at the
start of your trigger characters eg -aaa or -cad. Personally I would use a
character that is not likely to be used in the normal course of typing your
document - thus #aaa or #cad

The abilities of Word Perfect have no relevance to those of Word.

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[manny sue]

Yes I did mean auto correct.

Thank you very much. I did not realize that trigger could also be at the
beginning. I have not tried it yet but I do appreciate your help.