- Posted by Ian Suttle on February 11, 2008
- Filed under Office | lol
I think I'll hit "Snooze".
- Posted by Ian Suttle on February 5, 2008
- Filed under General | Office
I’m constantly writing email and documents using abbreviated names for products and features we have here at IGN Entertainment. Words like “registration” are universally recognized from the abbreviated use of “reg” as is “Fileplanet” from “fp”. By themselves neither of these short forms are valid words therefore annoying me with the little red squiggly line beneath (I use Office 2007). It’s easy to right-click these and “Add to Dictionary” or “Ignore” to get rid of the error indication. In thinking about it though, the proper answer is to type out the full word.
Right or wrong, I don’t want to type out the whole word. It takes time... time that somehow I've talked myself in to not having :).
Then it struck me today – AutoCorrect does this all the time for words I misspell; I can probably add my own AutoCorrect terms! Yep, I could. Here’s the quick and dirty on how that’s done:
Start by typing out a word you love to incorrectly abbreviate… I’ll choose “fp”.
Now right-click the abbreviate, go to the AutoCorrect menu, and choose AutoCorrect Options.
As you can see I’ve entered “fp” as the text to Replace, and “Fileplanet” as the text to replace it With. Click “Add” and you’re all set!
Now test it out by typing the abbreviated word and watch it magically transform into your intended real-life word.
I wonder what else I haven’t considered which is so simple and productive?