![]() People sometimes use the alternate term Building Blocks, but I prefer Quick Parts.) In Word 2010, the AutoComplete prompts are enabled by default, but you can turn them off if you like. ![]() (Quick Parts is the new name for AutoText, first used in Word 2007. What’s nice about AutoComplete is that you don’t have to remember every abbreviation for every AutoText / Quick Parts entry you’ve ever set up. (Alternatively, you could press F3 to expand the abbreviation after typing the first few characters, a method that works in Word 20 as well as in older versions. ![]() You could press the Enter key to insert the AutoText entry or simply keep typing if you didn’t want to invoke the AutoText entry. If you created an AutoText entry and assigned it an abbreviation that was at least four characters long, an AutoComplete prompt appeared when you typed the first four characters of the abbreviation. In versions of Word prior to 2007, AutoComplete worked in conjunction with AutoText, a feature that lets you insert boilerplate text with just a few keystrokes. Quite by accident, I discovered this afternoon that the AutoComplete function, which was removed from Word 2007 (with the notable exception of dates, names of months, and names of days of the week), has been restored in Word 2010. “AutoComplete” revisited / Quick primer on Quick Parts (Word 2010 and Word 2007) ![]()
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