A Word Document Trick

You know those autocorrect things where you type something and the software autocorrects what you typed (and maybe not what you wanted)? Well, I learned something that might be the source of that autocorrection.

I’ve been taking some courses, mostly Excel, to see if there are some nifty tricks I can deploy because let’s just admit, Microsoft has so many things packed into its software that we can’t possibly know all of it. But I still love it because I can still learn new things.

Now this is a trick for using Word document, not a software that I use predominantly, but it is an interesting trick. Like I alluded to in the first paragraph, the trick has something to do with that autocorrection.

If there is something that you have to keep typing over and over, usually adding in someone’s name in a memo or some kind of document, you could use this nifty feature. Let’s add the PDF that explains the nifty Word feature.

[Note: WordPress and some of the plugins must have done some updates because my plugin for the PDF loader is working pretty wonky. If the screen shows a reload button, try hitting that button to see if the PDF displays.]

This PDF presentation uses the longest known village name as an example. Can you imagine trying to type in that village name say for a travel brochure? Or maybe you need to scope out a new business site for your plant and you need to refer to that village. You really don’t want to be typing out that name.

The autocorrect (or auto replace might be a more descriptive word to use) comes to the rescue! Keep this in mind if you have to use one of those long names, book titles, or whatever.

Here’s an example of the longest known word:

Now, obviously, you are not going to want to type this in the autocorrect feature of Word; you would just use the word “titin”

That’s it for tonight. Hope this becomes useful. I’m sure there are other uses that you can dream up.