{"id":1549,"date":"2010-05-07T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T08:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2013-02-10T13:38:23","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T20:38:23","slug":"autotext-to-quick-parts-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=1549","title":{"rendered":"AutoText to Quick Parts, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

Say you have lots of random bits of text that you need to spew out as you type a document. You can save typing time in Word 2007 by employing an often-overlooked and poorly-named feature called the Quick Part Gallery<\/em>.
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\nThe Quick Part Gallery maintains a slew of items you can quickly and effortlessly insert into a document, including things you can add yourself. Here’s how it works:<\/p>\n

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  1. Type at minimum four characters of a Quick Part item name. For example, type quad<\/strong> (don’t press Enter, period or type a space).<\/li>\n
  2. Press the F3 key.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Instantly you see the quadratic equation. Quad is the first four characters of the word Quadratic Equation<\/em>. You could easily type the whole thing: Quadratic Equation<\/strong>, and then press F3. Either way, you see the thing displayed and formatted in your document:<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/p>\n

    You can also type pyth<\/strong> and press F3 to input the Pythagorean Theorem.<\/p>\n

    Oh, and there’s lots of other items in the gallery as well. Boring!<\/p>\n

    What’s interesting is adding your own item to the Quick Part Gallery, specifically to the old AutoText part of the gallery. Here’s how it works:<\/p>\n

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    1. Write text you want to place into the Quick Parts gallery.<\/li>\n
    2. Select the text.<\/li>\n
    3. Click the Insert tab.<\/li>\n
    4. From the Quick Parts button menu, choose the command Save Selection To Quick Part Gallery.<\/li>\n
    5. In the Create New Building Block dialog box choose AutoText from the Category drop-down list.<\/li>\n
    6. Optionally choose Normal.dotm<\/code> from the Save In drop-down list.<\/li>\n
    7. Click OK.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      The new Quick Part thingy has been created.<\/p>\n

      To try out your new quick part, type the first four characters of the text and press the F3 key. That should slap down the text for you.<\/p>\n

      Quick Parts may not fully replace AutoText, but it comes close. Next blog post<\/a> I’ll cover how to get an AutoText button on the Quick Access Toolbar.<\/p>\n

      NOTES<\/strong><\/p>\n

      • You’ll be prompted to save the Normal.dotm<\/code> template file when you next save, close a window, or quit Word. Do so. If you don’t, then the AutoText entries you created in the Quick Part Gallery will not be saved.<\/p>\n

      • You can also save the changes in the BuildingBlocks.dotx<\/code> file, which allows for more compatibility with the formatting features of Word 2007.<\/p>\n

      • These steps also work for Word 2010, which also features the Quick Part Gallery. Word 2010 also provides better access to AutoText entries in the Quick Part Gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Microsoft removed AutoText as a special thing starting with Word 2007. Instead, they hid it in a new feature called Quick Parts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","tag-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4154,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions\/4154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}