There are a few options for quickly adding large pieces of text to a document automatically. This video shows how to use Quick Parts to build a list of text pieces that can be added to a document. It also shows how to use the AutoCorrect feature to make your own text replacement shortcuts.
- [Instructor] If there's any information … that you write in your documents over and over again, … you might be able to save some time … with one of several features … that Word has for automatic text replacement. … Let's start with Quick Parts, … which is a Windows only feature … at the time of this recording. … You can see I've already written out some text here, … a name and an address that I want to drop … into lots of documents that I'll write in the future. … To make a shortcut for this text … I'm going to select that text, … then go to the Insert ribbon, to Quick Parts. … You'll see when I click on that, … it opens up this menu. … And I just want to choose … Save Selection to Quick Part Gallery. … From this window, I want to make sure where it says Gallery, … that it is set to Quick Parts. … In the Name field you can put whatever you want, … but I'm just going to leave this default here … and I'll click OK, and now that's been saved. … So to see what this gives me, … I'm going to create a new document. …
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12/10/2018- Disabling the Start screen
- Setting a default font for new documents
- Working with website links
- Using spelling and proofing tools
- Showing nonprinting characters
- Compressing pictures to decrease file size
- Locking a document to restrict editing
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