How to show a list of words for me to choose?

[cyberdude]

Hi,

I need to type a lot of documents in which some phrases occur very
often. Some of the examples are "medical evidence", "medical report",
"Statements of Claim", "Statements of Damages".

Given that some groups of words appear very frequently, I would like to
use VBA to let me choose from a list of phrases after I have typed a
few letters of the target phrase. For example, when I type "med", the
list of "medical", "medical report" and "medical evidence" will pop up
automatically and I can choose a phrase, say "medical report", that I
need from this list. Can someone tell me how to do this or tell me the
good books about Word VBA teaching me to do this? Thank you.

David

 

[Dave Lett]

Hi David,

You don't really need VBA for this. You could use the AutoCorrect feature of
Word to insert your groups of words. For the examples you provided, you
could

replace "mer" with "medical report"
replace "mee" with "medical evidence"
replace "sod" with "Statements of Damages" (remember, though, that "sod" is
a real word, too)
replace "soc" with "Statements of Claim"

You can find the AutoCorrect function on the Tools menu.

HTH,
Dave

 

[Graham Mayor]

Autotext does this more or less as you want without recourse to vba.

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[Graham Mayor]

Using #sod #mer #etc will overcome the real word issue

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