Today gone literally gone acronym crazy

The world today has gone literally crazy acronym. Every industry has its own plethora of acronyms to Bamboozle the uninitiated. Acronyms are also often a source of great pain for the people who have to create procedure documents for their industry. There is a way to survive this turmoil through AutoCorrect, and it will certainly save you time.

AutoCorrect was originally developed by Microsoft to help the people who use Microsoft Office and Microsoft Word in particular overcoming write questions, but it has also been a salvation to those who work in an acronym world.

An acronym is mostly short few characters who have a particular importance for example in Australia we have a concept called the Australian Business Number, which is an acronym abn. If you were producing a lot of documents referring to the concept of Australian Business Number, you will find it takes time to do the whole name. In many cases it would be inappropriate to actually use the abbreviation. With AutoCorrect allows you to do is to program in the application of the concept of ABN and associate it with the full name of the Australian Business Number.

This means that when you write your documents and you need to refer to the concept of Australian Business, you can just type in ABN, and as you press the spacebar Microsoft Word will then convert the abbreviation for ABN Australian Business Number.

So why does it do?

As I mentioned before, AutoCorrect was really developed to solve the problem of people mistyping words. Much as you type the AutoCorrect check to see if what you write is true, and if it will fix it with the ability AutoCorrect list. Some common misspellings, you may incur CNA would rather be. If you open Microsoft Word and write in CNA will automatically correct it to be.

AutoCorrect is actually available in all Microsoft Office programs including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, Outlook and FrontPage. Now it's really cool about this is that if you setup an AutoCorrect feature in Microsoft PowerPoint to say, it will also be available in all the other programs. This means you will save time, both in the initial setup, but also while you are creating these documents.

If you think that once you've tried the example I gave you before, that it has not converted misspelt words in the correct word is enough AutoCorrect feature is turned off. To turn it in Microsoft Word 2003, simply select the Tools menu and select AutoCorrect Options. You will see a checkbox next to the words "Replace text as you type". If the box has a tick next to it then you need to click once on the check box to activate it. Then complete the process by pressing the OK button.

There are three AutoCorrect entries which I think is absolutely necessary to know and that is how you can insert the logo registered service mark and copyright symbol without using the symbol command. Everything you need to do is type the following --

(tm) - Creates logo

(c) - Creates Copyright symbol

(r) - Creates Registered Symbol

AutoCorrect is certainly one of the tools that I think is really cool, but is often misunderstood and not used to its full potential. Using AutoCorrect in this way will save you hours of time when dealing with abbreviations. It may take some time to create your acronyms, but when its finished, it will save you countless hours and make you more efficient by using Microsoft Office suite.