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Juan, XyWrite was indeed excellent at that. I can think of a couple of different approaches:
- Kurt From: xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Behalf Of juan tamayo Wow. thanks for the quick and clearly knowledgeable response. So here goes my question: Waaaay back, when I used the Xywrite program (i am a retired journalist) the program allowed me to save/paste a string of text that i was using repeatedly. so for example, rather than trying to figure out how to spell Libya's Ghaddafy every time I mentioned him, I could define the text "Ghaddafy," then type something like ctrl+alt G to save it. Then whenerver I needed to type it again I would
type something like control+g or alt+g and the program would insert Ghaddafy at the cursor position. Now for the reason I am asking: I need this same exact function for XLS I am typing up a list of about 14,000 handwritten names of people, lilsted in no particular order. Of course many are repetitive -- John, Mary, George, Peter, Jane, etc. so i need to figure out a way to define John, click on something like alt+ctrl J to save it to the J function so that from then on anytime I need to type John I can type something like ctrl+j and John fills in. Macros are not good for this because JOHN would be assigned to a specific cell -- and it changes everything if the cell changes (one xls sheet is added to another and r5c6 becomes r34c34. a bit complicated, but i've tried to be clear. million thanks for any assistance at all. On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 3:14 AM Kari Eveli <lexitec@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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