Macros in Word 2007

[Technically Challenged]

After "upgrading" to Word 2007, I was appalled to see that my
favorite
commands have disappeared:
1) in Word 2003 you could select any word(s), press Alt+F3, enter an
abbreviation, and thereafter just type the abbreviation + F3 to call
up the text. That keystroke combination doesn't work in Word 2007.
Does anybody know how to do it in Word 2007 (with as few keystrokes
as
possible, since I have to type long texts with long, repetitive
words).
2) In Word 2003 you could select any word(s) and press Shift+F3 to
toggle between uppercase, lowercase, and "Sentence Case". That may
seem trivial, but I translate from German to English and use it all
the time. There's some slow way of doing it in Word 2007 under the
Home menu with the "Aa" icon, but I would appreciate if anybody could
find the equivalent keystroke combination in 2007 or explain to me
(for dummies!) how to progam a macro that would toggle between all
three cases.

Thanks in advance,


TC

 

[Jay Freedman]

I don't know what sort of problem you may be having, but all of those
shortcuts work in a default installation of Word 2007.

Try this: Press the key combination Ctrl+Alt+number-pad plus. The
cursor should turn into a "four-leaf clover" icon. Now press the
Alt+F3 combination. The Customize Keyboard dialog will open and show
you the command assigned to that shortcut, if any. In the Commands box
it should say CreateAutoText.

Press Ctrl+Alt+number-pad plus again, and press Shift+F3. The dialog
should show that this is assigned to the ChangeCase command. One more
time, with F3, should show that assigned to InsertAutoText.

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[Technically Challenged]

all of those shortcuts work in a default installation of Word 2007

Those shortcuts may still exist and even have the same names but they
don't have the same effects. Shift+F3 now alternates only between 2
cases rather than 3 (uppercase, lowercase AND sentence case). Alt+F3
calls up "Quick Parts" process, which is a thousand times more
cumbersome than the Autotext box, since instead of just typing F3
after the abbreviation you now have to go pick some macro name every
time you want to reproduce an abbreviated word (the game is no longer
worth the candle unless you've abbreviated a long passage). The only
feasible option now is to entire an abbreviation Office/Word Options//
Proofing/Autocorrect Options, as was suggested by the previous
answerer. Thereafter you can just type the abbreviation + F3. That's
much better than nothing but it's about as convenient as sucking out
the ice cream from the bottom of the cone.

Regards,

TC

 

[Jay Freedman]

Shift+F3 still includes sentence case in the rotation, but now only if
you've selected less than a full sentence.

Agreed that the implementation of AutoText in 2007 is pretty much a
botched job, and the dropping of the autocomplete function is the
worst part of it. MS is well aware of that -- we've told them at
length. :-(

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Microsoft Word MVP
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

feasible option now is to entire an abbreviation Office/Word Options//

Proofing/Autocorrect Options, as was suggested by the previous
answerer. Thereafter you can just type the abbreviation + F3. That's
much better than nothing but it's about as convenient as sucking out
the ice cream from the bottom of the cone.

Not exactly. If you create an AutoCorrect entry, it fires automatically. You
can still insert AutoText entries by typing the first four letters of the
entry name (as before, with AutoComplete) and pressing F3.