sueCBA,

My experiment in Word 97 has Word replacing the text, not adding it to
the line below?
Excel has a similar "Auto Correct Options" feature found on the "Tools" menu.
It replaces one set of characters with another set. It does not add the
replacement set to the line below.
Also, Excel will only accept additions to the list of replacements,
one word at a time.
This can be overcome using some simple VBA code which can add a
list from a worksheet to the Auto Correct list.
Glad to help you with that if you want to proceed.

Jim Cone
San Francisco, USA



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We are arboriculturists who use autotext to complete tree names
e.g.

Pedunculate Oak
Quercus robur

We type Pedunculate and hit F3 and the Latin is inserted on the line below
in italics.

This is in €˜Word. Does anyone know how we can do this in Excel 2002??