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From: Doug Robbins - Word MVP on 13 May 2010 17:49
F3 has been used for that purpose since the days of the Glossary (the
pre-decessor of Autotect) in the DOS versions of Word

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

"Jay Freedman" <jay.freedman(a)verizon.net> wrote in message
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> The short name of each entry still exists -- it's the same one assigned in
> the older version -- but Word 2007 can't display the little popup tag and
> the Enter key doesn't activate the replacement. You can type the short
> name and press F3 to insert the entry (this key worked in earlier
> versions, too, but hardly anyone knew that).
>
> This shortcoming has been remedied in Word 2010, but with Word 2007 you're
> stuck with it. Depending on what's in the entries, you might be able to
> convert them to AutoCorrect entries.
>
> Diane wrote:
>> Jay, I followed your instructions and can get the old autotext
>> entries into the building block store, however, is there now way of
>> being able to create a short name for the autotext entries (as was in
>> 2002) and then when you type that short name in the document and hit
>> enter key, it puts all of the autotext entry into the document. (ie.
>> if you had legal paragraphs that you use in different letters). This
>> is really what our user's want.
>>
>> Diane
>>
>> "Jay Freedman" wrote:
>>
>>> Don't try to "convert" an old normal.dot to normal.dotx. It could
>>> have unpleasant side effects.
>>>
>>> Copy/rename the old normal.dot template to something like
>>> MyAutoText.dot. If it contains any macros, delete them. Store this
>>> template in the folder
>>>
>>> %appdata%\Microsoft\Document Building Blocks
>>>
>>> (paste that line into the address box of Windows Explorer and press
>>> Enter to get to the folder even though it's hidden). Then restart
>>> Word.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>> Jay Freedman
>>> Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
>>> Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
>>> newsgroup so all may benefit.
>>>
>>> Diane wrote:
>>>> I have several users that have multiple autotext entries in Word
>>>> 2002. We have just upgraded to Office 2007. They would like to
>>>> convert their 2002 Autotext entries into 2007 Word AutoText which is
>>>> now Building Blocks. Does anyone know how to do this? Is there a
>>>> way to take their normal.dot file and convert into 2007 normal.dotx
>>>> file?
>>>
>>>
>>> .
>
>
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