AutoText Primer

[RWN]

Can anyone point me at a site where I can learn everything I always
wanted to know about the autotext function?

I can follow the Help function as far as the mechanics of doing it but
I'm interested in things like
Capacity/Intended use;
I know what it is but have used it for short items only, whereas I'm
currently researching different ways of producing contracts which would
require a higher volume, in other words, I don't want to use the
function for something that it wasn't intended for (always get in
trouble when I do that!). Help implies that it can hold "large"
quantities but I don't want to trip over a difference in meanings of
"large"!

Where it's stored, transportability .
The contract function, whatever form it winds up as, would be in a
template located on a Workgroup directory.

Using Wrd97.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

An AutoText FAQ has been in process for some time but hasn't been published
yet. For some useful information on AutoText, however, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/AutoTextList.htm. According to “WD97:
Operating Parameter Limitations and Specifications"
[http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=168804], although AutoText entry names
are limited to 32 characters, the number of entries in a document template
is limited only by available memory, and nothing whatever is said about the
size (though of course that would also be limited by available memory).

 

[RWN]

Suzanne;

Geez, I'm keeping you busy tonight!

Thanks, I'll start my "fishing expedition" there.

--
Regards;
Rob
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An AutoText FAQ has been in process for some time but hasn't been published
yet. For some useful information on AutoText, however, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/AutoTextList.htm. According to "WD97:
Operating Parameter Limitations and Specifications"
[http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=168804], although AutoText entry names
are limited to 32 characters, the number of entries in a document template
is limited only by available memory, and nothing whatever is said about the
size (though of course that would also be limited by available memory).

Can anyone point me at a site where I can learn everything I always
wanted to know about the autotext function?

I can follow the Help function as far as the mechanics of doing it but
I'm interested in things like
Capacity/Intended use;
I know what it is but have used it for short items only, whereas I'm
currently researching different ways of producing contracts which would
require a higher volume, in other words, I don't want to use the
function for something that it wasn't intended for (always get in
trouble when I do that!). Help implies that it can hold "large"
quantities but I don't want to trip over a difference in meanings of
"large"!

Where it's stored, transportability .
The contract function, whatever form it winds up as, would be in a
template located on a Workgroup directory.

Using Wrd97.

--

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi, Rob,

Also look at http://members.verizon.net/~vze27sds/autotext.htm. It's
an article that's waiting to be posted at word.mvps.org.

Suzanne;

Geez, I'm keeping you busy tonight!

Thanks, I'll start my "fishing expedition" there.

--
Regards;
Rob
------------------------------------------------------------------------

An AutoText FAQ has been in process for some time but hasn't been published
yet. For some useful information on AutoText, however, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/AutoTextList.htm. According to "WD97:
Operating Parameter Limitations and Specifications"
[http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=168804], although AutoText entry names
are limited to 32 characters, the number of entries in a document template
is limited only by available memory, and nothing whatever is said about the
size (though of course that would also be limited by available memory).

Can anyone point me at a site where I can learn everything I always
wanted to know about the autotext function?

I can follow the Help function as far as the mechanics of doing it but
I'm interested in things like
Capacity/Intended use;
I know what it is but have used it for short items only, whereas I'm
currently researching different ways of producing contracts which would
require a higher volume, in other words, I don't want to use the
function for something that it wasn't intended for (always get in
trouble when I do that!). Help implies that it can hold "large"
quantities but I don't want to trip over a difference in meanings of
"large"!

Where it's stored, transportability .
The contract function, whatever form it winds up as, would be in a
template located on a Workgroup directory.

Using Wrd97.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Ah, right, Rob, that's the article I was referring to. I guess I should make
a note of Jay's URL so I can reuse it. <g>

There is also an article on AutoText and AutoCorrect with an Equation Editor
focus at the Design Science Web site, www.dessci.com. The URL seems to be
http://www.dessci.com/en/support/tutorials/autocorrect/tutorial.htm

Hi, Rob,

Also look at http://members.verizon.net/~vze27sds/autotext.htm. It's
an article that's waiting to be posted at word.mvps.org.

Suzanne;

Geez, I'm keeping you busy tonight!

Thanks, I'll start my "fishing expedition" there.

--
Regards;
Rob
------------------------------------------------------------------------

An AutoText FAQ has been in process for some time but hasn't been published
yet. For some useful information on AutoText, however, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/AutoTextList.htm. According to "WD97:
Operating Parameter Limitations and Specifications"
[http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=168804], although AutoText entry names
are limited to 32 characters, the number of entries in a document template
is limited only by available memory, and nothing whatever is said about the
size (though of course that would also be limited by available memory).



Can anyone point me at a site where I can learn everything I always
wanted to know about the autotext function?

I can follow the Help function as far as the mechanics of doing it but
I'm interested in things like
Capacity/Intended use;
I know what it is but have used it for short items only, whereas I'm
currently researching different ways of producing contracts which would
require a higher volume, in other words, I don't want to use the
function for something that it wasn't intended for (always get in
trouble when I do that!). Help implies that it can hold "large"
quantities but I don't want to trip over a difference in meanings of
"large"!

Where it's stored, transportability .
The contract function, whatever form it winds up as, would be in a
template located on a Workgroup directory.

Using Wrd97.
--
Regards;
Rob

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