Multiline AutoCorrect

In an earlier blog entry I showed how the cool Microsoft Word AutoCorrect feature can be used to both increase your typing speed and your spelling accuracy. This time we'll use AutoCorrect to write not a single word or a single line, but multiple lines.

So let's say that you often want to write the following 3 lines:
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The way to add these lines to an AutoCorrect entry, is simply to write the lines in your Microsoft Word document, then highlight all of them, and press AutoCorrect (ALT+T,A in Word 2003). Simply enter the AutoCorrect key (e.g. multi3), and your multi-line AutoCorrect entry is ready to go. So next time you type multi3, your 3 lines will show up with all the formatting (bold, underline, hyperlinks, etc) of the original lines.

I do want to point out that in case you multi-line text is more part of your email signature than just a multi-line text, then you really should use an email signature instead (assuming that you are using Word as your email editor). So if you sometimes want to write:
Regards,
Michael E.
Master of AutoCorrect and Signatures

Then you should create another email signature in MS Word with the desired text in it. You can then right-click on your email signature at anytime and switch it to the desired signature.

Nifty.