Using AutoText
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- What Is Writer?
- The Writer interface
- Changing Document Views
- Moving Quickly through a Document
- Working with documents
- Working with text
- Selecting Items That Are Not Consecutive
- Selecting a Vertical Block of Text
- Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Text
- Finding and Replacing Text and Formatting
- Inserting Special Characters
- Inserting Dashes and Non-breaking Spaces and Hyphens
- Setting Tab Stops and Indents
- Changing the Default Tab stop Interval
- Checking Spelling and Grammar
- Using Built-in Language tools
- Using AutoCorrect
- Using Word Completion
- Using AutoText
- Formatting Text
- Formatting Pages
- Adding Comments and Graphics to a Document
- Creating a Table of Contents
- Creating Indexes and Bibliographies
- Adding Images and Other Graphics
- Adding Tables, Spreadsheets, and Charts
- Adding a Movie or Sound
- Printing
- Using Mail Merge
- Tracking Changes to a Document
- Using Fields
- Linking to another part of a document
- Using Master Documents
- Creating Fill-in Forms
Using AutoText
Use AutoText to store text, tables, graphics, and other items for reuse and assign them to a key combination for easy retrieval. For example, rather than typing “Senior Management” every time you use that phrase, you can set up an AutoText entry to insert those words when you type "sm" and press F3 .
Creating AutoText
To store some text as AutoText:
- Type the text into your document.
- Select the text.
- Choose Edit → AutoText (or press Ctrl + F3 ).
- In the AutoText dialog, type a name for the AutoText in the Name box. Writer will suggest a one-letter shortcut, which you can change.
- In the large box to the left, choose the category for the AutoText entry, for example My AutoText.
- Click the AutoText button on the right and select New (text only) from the menu.
- Click Close to return to your document.
If the only option under the AutoText button is Import, either you have not entered a name for your AutoText or there is no text selected in the document. |
AutoText is especially powerful when assigned to fields. See Chapter 14 (Working with Fields) in the Writer Guide for more information.
Inserting AutoText
To insert AutoText, type the shortcut and press F3 .
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