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My favorite Word feature is AutoCorrect — love to use it to change an “abbreviation” to the full test, like ops = OBTAIN A SCREEN PRINT when doing docs with many repeated phrases. But, I’d like to know if there’s any way (other than deleting them one-by-one) to delete all those AutoCorrect spelling corrections that come with Word?

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Hi

I go into the organiser (from FORMAT>Style) choose the autotext tab, select the appropriate template and create multiple selection in the autotext list and delete …

All or some at one shot.
Cheers
Geof

PS Microsoft have a macro (Macro8), I think that contains a routine to back up / rstore autotext/correct entries.

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Thanks Geof, I’m checking this out

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Geof —

Thanks for this tip. Got rid of the built in Auto Text entries I don’t need.

Jul

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Sorry
Gave a response for AutoText …

Try article Q186237 on the MicSoft support knowledge base

Cheers
Geof

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No problem — I also use Auto Text in a similar manner

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Actually both ways. Right now I have a lot of phrases I’ve added to the AutoCorrect, but I frequently move to new machines, get reimaged, etc. so I have to start from scratch.

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Lawrence,

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I know something about macros and learn (a lot) more about them almost every time I use them. Before I try one, tho, I’d like to know about the Auto Correct utility that’s mentioned. Can you help/direct me?

Thanks

Jul

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Thanks all — learned a lot form this

What I did was to rename the .acl on my hard drive (this is a network installation, so there may be more elsewhere).

The amazing result was that all the Auto corrects I entered remained while almost all the others went away. Smiley faces and arrows remained.

This is great!

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Two reasons to delete the standard entries…

The shortcuts I add get lost in the plethora of standard entries. They get created on the fly and don’t always get written down. This way I can see what I’ve already set up.

I guess I’m a purist of sorts. When I make an error, I like to know about it.

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