{"id":1915,"date":"2022-08-07T09:52:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T06:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.addictivetips.com\/?p=281581https:\/\/www.addictivetips.com\/microsoft-office\/text-expander-in-microsoft-word\/"},"modified":"2022-08-07T09:52:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T06:52:21","slug":"how-to-get-a-text-expander-in-microsoft-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/1915-how-to-get-a-text-expander-in-microsoft-word\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Get A Text Expander In Microsoft Word"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s hard to imagine a feature that Microsoft Word doesn\u2019t have. It\u2019s built for just about every single type of document you need to make but oddly enough, it lacks a text expander. A text expander allows you to enter a brief text snippet that can be expanded into a phrase. This feature is normally found on smartphones and in messaging apps but desktops in general and word processors in particular seem to lack them even though it\u2019s pretty useful. That said, you can use a little trick to get a text expander in Microsoft Word.<\/p>\n

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Open Microsoft Word and go to File>Options. On the Options window, go to the Proofing tab. Here, you will see an Autocorrect options section. In this section, click the AutoCorrect Options button.<\/p>\n

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On the AutoCorrect window, go to the AutoCorrect tab and you will see a Replace<\/strong> field. Inside this field, type in the snippet you want to expand to a larger phrase. In the With<\/strong> field, enter what you want to expand the snippet to. You can use this to, for example, expand company names, technical terms, and even country or city names from an abbreviated version to its full version. It makes typing much easier and it reduces the chances of making a mistake typing long names, or complicated terms. You can even specify formatting for certain words.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how it works.<\/p>\n

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This will of course impact every single Word document. The change to AutoCorrect will be made app-wide which means that even if you don\u2019t need the text expander to work in certain documents, it still will. The only way to work around it is to remove the addition to AutoCorrect once you\u2019re done with the document that you need it to work in.<\/p>\n

This work around isn\u2019t clunky and while it may be inconvenient that it applies to every single document you make it\u2019s how text expansion works. In fact, if you look at how text expansion works on a smartphone, you know that it applies OS-wide. This change will also be applied to other apps in the Office Suite i.e., if you\u2019re using PowerPoint, and you type in the snippet you configured, it will expand to the phrase you set for it. This is only going to be a problem in Excel since the data in Excel isn\u2019t always going to need expanding into a phrase. If it\u2019s too annoying, you can backspace it, and when you type it again, it won\u2019t be expanded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s hard to imagine a feature that Microsoft Word doesn\u2019t have. It\u2019s built for just about every single type of document you need to make but oddly enough, it lacks a text expander. A text expander allows you to enter a brief text snippet that can be expanded into a phrase. This feature is normally …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}