Creating a masterlist and using it to create custom lists

If your AutoText names contain spaces, then pressing F3 won't work (in my
experience). I would use ENY01, instead, without the space.

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Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


"DALopez" <DALopez RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks Mr. Tyson, I do have a lock feature I forgot about. Man your good
> at
> this stuff. I am for sure going to buy your book when we upgrade office to
> the latest.
>
> Regarding the transfering: I have a document with 47 statements that I
> have
> bulleted "ENY 01" I have autotexted each statement to match the bullet
> number. So when I open a new document and I only want 5 of the statements
> I
> go in to autotext window and I type in heading and it inserts it. When I
> use
> F3 key (not enhanced) It does not do anything when I click on the bullet
> and
> press F3. I have the new document openned and the template list open.
>
> "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Have you reassigned F3 to something else? Or, do you perhaps have a
>> special
>> keyboard with an F Lock feature that causes the F keys to do something
>> different?
>>
>> I don't understand the "how does it know to transfer to new document?"
>> question. When you create autotext entries--unless you explicitly save
>> them
>> to a template that isn't normally available--those autotext entries will
>> be
>> available in new and existing documents.
>>
>> But, your question makes me wonder about how you're going about it.
>>
>> --
>> Herb Tyson MS MVP
>> Author of the Word 2007 Bible
>> Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
>> Web: http://www.herbtyson.com
>>
>>
>> "DALopez" <DALopez RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:135BF4C4-D1A6-41FA-8103-C9441E2EC29B@microsoft.com...
>> > OK, I tried this F3 thing and it did not work.
>> >
>> > I opened my list that is autotexted I opened a new document then I
>> > clicked
>> > on the note on the autotext list (how does it know to transfer to new
>> > document?) that I wanted, I pressed F3 and Excell openned up. [OK don't
>> > laugh
>> > ]
>> >
>> > "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:
>> >
>> >> You can't do them all at once (unless each one is contained inside an
>> >> autotext field code... but going that route seems like it'd be just as
>> >> much
>> >> work).
>> >>
>> >> However, you don't need to use the dialog method to insert them once
>> >> the
>> >> list exists. Just put the cursor at the end of each one and press F3.
>> >> For
>> >> a
>> >> list of a dozen items, this repetitive action woud probably take only
>> >> a
>> >> few
>> >> seconds to perform. If you have hundreds to insert at a time, then I
>> >> would
>> >> look at using a macro.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Herb Tyson MS MVP
>> >> Author of the Word 2007 Bible
>> >> Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
>> >> Web: http://www.herbtyson.com
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> "DALopez" <DALopez RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:1F54E7F9-814E-44F1-B68E-FC641B4426A9@microsoft.com...
>> >> > Thanks Mr. Tyson!
>> >> >
>> >> > Can I type up a series of numbers from my list and it will
>> >> > automatically
>> >> > insert those statements to my custom document or do I have to do it
>> >> > one
>> >> > by
>> >> > one? I tried it but only got to do 1 number at a time.
>> >> >
>> >> > "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> You could do this using AutoText. I suggest that you take a look at
>> >> >> AutoText
>> >> >> in Word's help file. If you want to insert the items by number, you
>> >> >> could
>> >> >> name them using numbers, e.g., i1, i2, i3, etc.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> --
>> >> >> Herb Tyson MS MVP
>> >> >> Author of the Word 2007 Bible
>> >> >> Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
>> >> >> Web: http://www.herbtyson.com
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> "DALopez" <DALopez RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> >> >> news:42983AE3-8720-4AA7-9D41-744214CD4B40@microsoft.com...
>> >> >> > Hi microsoft Gods,
>> >> >> > I am trying to figure out how I can type a masterlist of
>> >> >> > statements
>> >> >> > that have been bulleted. Then I want to create a custom list by
>> >> >> > just
>> >> >> > typing
>> >> >> > in the bullet number and viola' the statement is inserted into my
>> >> >> > custome
>> >> >> > list.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > The list is already existing in 2003 Word.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > I am using Word. Do I need to buy another program?
>> >> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
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