

The single option checkbox on the tab is an important part of this tab. The Show Toolbar button turns on the AutoText toolbar. The Add button adds a new entry to the list, the insert button inserts a selected item into the current document and the delete button deletes an entry from the list of entries.

Each of these buttons is relatively self explanatory. Along the right hand side of the dialog box are Add, Insert, and Delete buttons along with a Show Toolbar button. This tab has one option checkbox, a list of existing entries, and a preview window to see what will be inserted if you Insert an entry you have selected. To get to the tab, go to Tools > AutoCorrect options. But let’s just begin by looking around the AutoText tab of the AutoCorrect options dialog box. We’ll look at several examples to see how you can create new entries, change an existing entry, and rename entries. The AutoText entries which are shipped with Microsoft Word are designed specifically for letter writing applications, however you can add your own entries to speed your entry of frequently used blocks of text. The features contained on the AutoText tab (or from the AutoText toolbar) have the most capacity to save you time. In this edition, we’ll look at each of the remaining tabs – AutoText, AutoFormat, and SmartTags. Recall that the AutoCorrect Options dialog box is located under Tools in most Microsoft Office and other Microsoft productivity applications (such as Microsoft Visio and Microsoft Project). In the last edition of Office for Mere Mortals we looked at the first two tabs of the AutoCorrect Options dialog box in Microsoft Word. MAKING AUTOCORRECT DO THE WORK FOR YOU – PART 2 In this article we look at the AutoText, AutoFormat, and SmartTags tabs in the AutoCorrect Options dialog box.
