Stopping preview in Autotext/Quick Parts

[Rebekah]

Is there a way you can remove the preview for Autotext/Quick Parts? It just
takes up a lot of the screen and I'd like to use the space to list more
entries.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Is there a way you can remove the preview for Autotext/Quick Parts? It just
takes up a lot of the screen and I'd like to use the space to list more
entries.

If you're referring to the preview in the Building Blocks Organizer dialog, the
answer is no. And, unfortunately, the dialog isn't resizable, so you can't
display a longer section of the list.

As a slight aid to quick navigation, you can press the letter key for the first
letter of the name of an item you want. The selector will jump to the next item
that starts with that letter. Press the same letter repeatedly to keep skipping
through the list.

The alternative, if you have the necessary knowledge and free time, is to build
a userform that presents just the list.

 

[Rebekah]

Thanks for your help Jay.

If you're referring to the preview in the Building Blocks Organizer dialog, the
answer is no. And, unfortunately, the dialog isn't resizable, so you can't
display a longer section of the list.

As a slight aid to quick navigation, you can press the letter key for the first
letter of the name of an item you want. The selector will jump to the next item
that starts with that letter. Press the same letter repeatedly to keep skipping
through the list.

The alternative, if you have the necessary knowledge and free time, is to build
a userform that presents just the list.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Peter]

:

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The alternative, if you have the necessary knowledge and free time, is to build
a userform that presents just the list.

I would be very interested in knowing if there was any userform that
displays the the quickparts entry in a list with a more readable preview.
Ideally it would be a modeless window that could float over the application
but this is not necessary. The basic context is that I use Word Autotext
enties to insert comments into documents when making assignments.

It works very well in Word 2003 (the autotext box allows you to easily key
through the enteries and the preview that is shown is large enough to read
the entries) but in 2007 it is not as easy to use (the names are not shown in
a list and the entries are not large enough to read). About 13 minutes into
the screeen movie at http://baker-evans.com/marker's-assistant/demo.html
there is a demo.

Any assistance woudl be gratefully received,
Pete Evans