AutoText in 2007

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Kathy,
They are called building blocks now. Click the insert tab on the ribbon, in
the text group, click quick parts, you will find Building blocks organizer
there. All built-in building blocks are in differtent categories.
If you want to save a text selection as a building block, select the text,
click on quick parts button and choose save selection as building block. You
will be presented with a dialogue in which you can type a name for your
autotext, choose a gallery to save it in, and where to save it.
Remember you can use your building block anywhere by typing it's name in the
document and pressing F3.
 
I've got it; thanks!

Luc said:
Kathy,
They are called building blocks now. Click the insert tab on the ribbon, in
the text group, click quick parts, you will find Building blocks organizer
there. All built-in building blocks are in differtent categories.
If you want to save a text selection as a building block, select the text,
click on quick parts button and choose save selection as building block. You
will be presented with a dialogue in which you can type a name for your
autotext, choose a gallery to save it in, and where to save it.
Remember you can use your building block anywhere by typing it's name in the
document and pressing F3.
Click to expand...
 
Hi Kathy,

The Autotext feature in Word 2007 has been expanded into 'Building Blocks' and building blocks are available in a number of places
in the Ribbons of Word 2007 in Preview-&-pick galleries. AutoText now is one Gallery managed and hoset through the Building Blocks
manager located in
Insert=>QuickParts=>Building Blocks Organizer

Managed Pick-&-Preview building block galleries/categories on the Ribbon include:

QuickParts, Header, Footer, Cover Page, Page Number, QuickTable, Text Box, Equation, Watermark, Bibliography and Table of
Contents.

You can also define galleries and categories of your own that can be used without being part of a Preview-&-pick gallery.

Because of the expansion of the feature the method to autocomplete an entry by typing enough characters unique to that entry then
pressing F3 still works, but the 'press enter to complete' balloons that appeared in versions prior to Word 2007 as you typed when
the program found a matching AutoText entry are no longer available for building blocks in Word 2007.

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Where can I find AutoText in Word 2007?

Thanks in advance.>>
--

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
 
This took me a while to find; however you can add autotext back into the
ribbon in Word 2007.

1. The AutoText feature is incorporated as a gallery into the expanded
capabilities provided by the Quick Parts feature (Document Parts, Building
Blocks) in Microsoft Office Word 2007.

Tip You can add the AutoText command to the Quick Access Toolbar by doing
the following: Click the Microsoft Office Button , and then click Word
Options. Click Customize. Click Commands Not in the Ribbon in the Choose
commands from list, click AutoText, and then click Add.


Optionally, if you want to add a formatted text entry, open the document
that contains the text that is formatted the way that you want, and select
that text.

2. Click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click Word Options.
Click Proofing.
Click AutoCorrect Options.
 
Luc said:
Kathy,
They are called building blocks now. Click the insert tab on the ribbon, in
the text group, click quick parts, you will find Building blocks organizer
there. All built-in building blocks are in differtent categories.
If you want to save a text selection as a building block, select the text,
click on quick parts button and choose save selection as building block. You
will be presented with a dialogue in which you can type a name for your
autotext, choose a gallery to save it in, and where to save it.
Remember you can use your building block anywhere by typing it's name in the
document and pressing F3.
Click to expand...
 
My autotext automatically enters a new paragraph after it is inserted. I
just want it to stop at the next space once it has been inserted.
 
If you did an in-place upgrade from 2003 to 2007, all your previous
AutoText entries will still be stored but not immediately available as
building blocks. Usually they're stored in Normal.dot, which the
installer for 2007 renames as something like Normal11.dot. If you copy
or move that file into the folder
%appdata%\Microsoft\Document Building Blocks\1033
then its AutoText entries will be loaded at the same time as the ones
that come with 2007.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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Thanks Luc but I still can't make it work. Although it tells me it's there,
I can't insert it. I used to like the old version of word. Oh well, I'll
have to keep copying it in from a document I suppose umless there's something
else someone can tell me.
 
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