how do I make a list of acronyms?

[SoWrite]

Is there some way to mark acronyms in an 80-pg document to generate an
automatic list of them?

 

[rndthought]

SoWrite,

As long as you allow the acronyms to show up as misspelled words, the
following link may help. It does require some technical (Visual Basic)
knowledge.

Credit goes to Greg.

http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/List_Spelling_Errors.htm

 

[Ed]

Another way might be to pick some kind of special formatting that is not
found anywhere else in your document (bold, underline, different font,
etc.). Then you can record a macro as follows:
Close Word, then reopen.
Have only your original doc open.
Open a new doc, the go back to the original.
With the cursor at the very start of your original doc, start the macro
recorder. Give your macro a name you will remember and associate with this
function.
Hit Ctrl+F
Leave the "Find What" box blank; click "More" and then "Format" and select
the format(s) you applied to your acronyms.
Click "Find Next"
When it stops on the first one, click into the document, but don't close the
Find box.
Hit Ctrl+C , Alt+Tab, Ctrl+V, Enter, Alt+Tab
Stop the recorder.

Check it by closing the Find box, going back to the top of the doc, and
running your macro (Alt+F8, select from list). If it works, we can help you
adjust that to cycle through the whole doc until it find everything.

Ed

 

[Al]

Is there some way to mark acronyms in an 80-pg document to generate an
automatic list of them?

Try This:

Do a find/Replace with wildcards:
Find <[A-Z]{2,}>
This is Beginning of word, at least 2 chars A-Z, end of word
Replace with:
~^p^&^p and a unique style not found in document. (the tilde is an unused
character in document) (I use Body Text 2)
Then do a Find ~^p style Body Text 2
Replace with ^p style Normal.

The result is a paragraph with each acronym with a unique style.

Then Insert a List of figures at the top of the document using Style Body
Text 2.
Copy the TOC, sort and delete duplicates.