AutoCorrect
Posted By: FLMT on 2008-02-15
In Reply to: Text Expanders and counters - newbiemommt
Hey there,
I used to use Smartype as my former company provided it but it does not work properly with Word 2003. What I do is I use the AutoCorrect feature that comes with Word. It will take some time to input your own but it works fine. Here's some quick instructions:
Click Tools>AutoCorrectOptions (or Alt-T, A on keyboard if you are a mouse hater like me).
Select AutoCorrect tab. In Replace box type your abbreviation or shorthand. In the With box type the expanded form. For example for coronary artery disease, I put cade in the replace box. Then click OK. Next time you need to type this, just type cade and hit spacebar and it will expand for you. Bear in mind that you need to be careful of what you put there in case some hospital down the line doesn't want you to expand slang like bicarb for bicarbonate so my expansion for that is bicarbx. Hope this helps!
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