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

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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
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Re: How to show a list of words for me to choose? by Dave

Dave
Wed Jun 28 09:16:31 CDT 2006

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

"cyberdude" <honchorlee@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1151502557.712526.183580@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> 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
>


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Re: How to show a list of words for me to choose? by Graham

Graham
Wed Jun 28 09:16:56 CDT 2006

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

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cyberdude wrote:
> 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


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Re: How to show a list of words for me to choose? by Graham

Graham
Wed Jun 28 09:49:42 CDT 2006

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

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
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Dave Lett wrote:
> 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
>
> "cyberdude" <honchorlee@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1151502557.712526.183580@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>> 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


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