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From: bluebottle on 6 May 2010 10:14

I work in a company in the UK which works with Norwegian clients a lot,
often people with � in their name. I want to set up people's computers
so when the type aaa in a word, it comes out with �. Eg. if they type
'Paaal' they get the name 'P�l'.

When I program autocorrect to change aaa to � it only does it when aaa
is typed as a word, not within a word.

Is there a character I can use as a wildcard, or some other way to get
autocorrect to do this?




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bluebottle
From: Jay Freedman on 6 May 2010 16:14
There is no way to make AutoCorrect do what you propose.

However, there is a default keyboard shortcut for that character: press Ctrl
and @ together, then release them and press the a key. If you want to change
that to a simpler shortcut, use the Shortcut Key button in the Insert >
Symbols dialog (see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/InsertSpecChars.htm
for more details).

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bluebottle wrote:
> I work in a company in the UK which works with Norwegian clients a
> lot, often people with � in their name. I want to set up people's
> computers so when the type aaa in a word, it comes out with �. Eg. if
> they type 'Paaal' they get the name 'P�l'.
>
> When I program autocorrect to change aaa to � it only does it when aaa
> is typed as a word, not within a word.
>
> Is there a character I can use as a wildcard, or some other way to get
> autocorrect to do this?


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