mabs
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Post by mabs on Aug 9, 2004 7:16:38 GMT -5
Also, does anyone have an easier way to add a percent sign behind a number?? (such as I do "yo" behind a number and it gives me -year-old). Just trying to make my life a little easier. Thanks. ;D
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Post by olywakim on Aug 14, 2004 0:26:38 GMT -5
you can tell autocorrect to make a % sign out of any key or key combination you'd like..or did you mean something easier than that? Here is an example of adding an expansion to AutoCorrect. You can use any combination of keys or a single key for your expansions. To keep it simple I’ll use the key ‘q’ in my example. This explanation is straight from Word’s Help menu. It works the same way in WordPerfect except AutoCorrect is called QuickCorrect, and other platforms call it Expansion settings. Whatever it is called, it is found in the Tools menu. 1. On the Tools menu, click AutoCorrect options. 2. In the Replace box, type ‘q’ 3. In the With box, type ‘%’ 4. Click Add. Very important step! 5. Then close AutoCorrect. Now type 98.8q in your document followed by any punctuation or the space bar, and you will see 98.8%. NOTE: Watch out when using ‘q’ here, unless you don’t need it for “each/every” in your work.
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Beth
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Post by Beth on Sept 4, 2004 17:07:52 GMT -5
I was very excited when I read the above post, as I hate to type those weird symbols, too--but when I try it, the q remains a q. If I type q alone, or with a space between it and the numbers, it works, but then I still have to close up the space....did I miss something here?
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Post by olywakim on Sept 4, 2004 23:25:32 GMT -5
Okay, I just tried this is Word and discovered you are absolutely correct! It won’t replace without a space in there, very odd. It works on ‘the platform’, which was sort of what I was pointing toward while trying not to mention it. I don’t believe you can get this to work (easily) outside the platform. If you’d really like to avoid the percent sign you can enter your most common percent solutions, 1%, 10%, whatever, into AutoCorrect as individual corrections, 1q to be replaced with 1%, which is a lot more time consuming but doable. Sorry I got your hopes up…I thought it would work in Word but I did not check to confirm this. (My guess it that this would apply to WP also.) I guess Word is looking for just q, with spaces or punctuation around it, to replace with %, which actually makes sense for what it does with other AutoCorrect corrections. I have no idea why this works on the platform. Somehow ‘it’ recognizes the difference between a number and a letter. I see now that if I type a q at the end of a word, specialq, ‘it’ lets it stand, but if I type a number, 1q, ‘it’ will allow the change to the % sign. Very interesting. Can’t explain it though.
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jaedy
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Post by jaedy on Jan 3, 2005 9:15:38 GMT -5
I think "the platform" is set up to recognize expanders used directly after numbers. I don't like %, either, and I use "pc" rather q--I know it's two keystrokes, but the letters are easier for my fingers to hit than the q, for some reason.
On platforms that don't recognize the expander directly after numbers without a space (although sometimes there is a function which allows a backspace to be added and then the feaure automatically backspaces and puts the character directly following the number--don't know if Word does that or not), I enter all of the numbers I think I might need. I do this with ages, too--34-year-old, 34-year-old male, 34-year-old white male, 34-year-old white male patient, etc. It makes for a lot of entries, but helps a lot when it comes to transcribing.
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