How to Automate Text Using Word 2002
Word 2002 contains an AutoText feature that allows you to automate text into your documents. You can save words that you use often as "AutoText entries." Word will insert the text automatically into your documents when the first letter or two of the word is typed. This comes in handy in helping to save you time in typing. This guide will show you how to use the AutoText feature.
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Instructions
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Open your Word 2002 program. Access the Word document that contains the words that you want to add as AutoText. You can also open a blank document and type the text or word into the document that you will use as Autotext.
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Select the text by highlighting it. You can also do this by holding down the Shift key and press the arrow key facing the direction of the text you want.
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Click on the menu bar and choose "Insert," then "AutoText" then "New." This opens the "Create AutoText dialog box."
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Type a name for your AutoText entry under "Please name your AutoText entry." For example, if you want to create an autotext entry for your signature or closing remarks that will appear in all of your documents. Highlight the signature in Step 2 and type "Closing" into the "AutoText" dialog box. Word will replace the word "Closing" with your signature when it is typed into a document.
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Tips & Warnings
Once you create Autotext, it is stored permanently until you remove it from the "Create AutoText" dialog box.
When you create AutoText entries, be sure that the first words are different than any other AutoText entries that you have created or Word will become confused.
