Hiya Shauna,
4. AutoTexts can hold just about anything: text, pictures, tables,
whatever. AutoCorrect only stores text.
Actually this isn't true (yeah, surprised me too). AutoCorrects
can store formatting and graphics. And while normally it's still
far less nerve-wracking to use AutoTexts for that, on occasion if
you have graphics that are extremely repetitive, AutoCorrects are
handier. A recent example for me was in a set of medical notes
that used graphical 'abbreviations' for the generic terms for
various relatives -- an F in a circle meant father, an M meant
mother, etc. These symbols needed to occur inline with, and be
about the same height as, the text. Never one to settle for the
ample array of built-in symbols, my client wanted the circle to
have a particular look, so we built little graphics of the symbols
and defined each as an AutoCorrect. He was happy. In addition,
he later uncovered a need for symbols showing *two* letters in a
circle (e.g., SB for stepbrother), so the built-in symbols could
not have sufficed.
