[mso] Re: Word Macro to create list of acronyms
- From: "Tony Anderson" <tanders2112@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 11:48:19 -0400
Lisa,
It is a pretty large document. i think what I might have to do is go
throughit manually, and create a special style to format the acronyms (maybe
Acronym or something like it) so that I can search for it later. The
purpose, as I'm sure you have discerned, is to create a comprehensive list
ofacronyms used and their definitions. I was hoping to not have to reply on
a manual process to identify acronyms, but that's life. I'm surprised that
this isn't something that others have needed in the past.
Thanks for your help,
Tony
>From: "Green" <1z@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Reply-To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >To:
<mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Subject: [mso] Re: Word Macro to create list of
acronyms>Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:24:36 +0200 >>Tony.. >>The only way I can
think of is to go through the document text letter >by letter. Test to see
ifthe text is in a header or that the next >letter is lower case and in
thosecases move to the next capital >letter. The procedure could then pick
upany set of characters that >has 2 or more capitals next to each other.
Would that do the job do >you think? How big is the document? For massive
docs this may be too >slow. >>Lisa >>>Lisa, >>>>The document I am editing is
a technical specification for >>an automotive >>component. The types of
acronyms I am looking to find are >>for instance >>"GPS"(which stands for
Global Positioning System). The >>unfortunate thing is >>that the only
characteristic of the items I'm looking for >>is that there are >>at least 2
captial letters side by side. The other bad >>thing is that there >>are
heading styles that use this type of formatting that I >>would not want as
>>part of the returned list. So I guess another >>characteristic is that
the>>text should not be a heading style. Someone (Ray Blake) >>suggested
using the >>Font, All Caps identifier in the Find dialog. That doesn't
>>work because the >>font has to be identified as All Caps as part of its
style. >> None of the >>acronyms I'm trying to find have that
characteristic. >>>>Thanks,
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