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    • November 29, 2024 at 8:40 am #14409125
      David
      Member

      I’m pretty sure it it was an Anne-Marie movie I saw on Lynda or LinkedIn Learning, but I can’t find it, nor am I sure exactly how to enter my question as a search criteria in Google … so I’ll just ask the CreativePro community.

      I want to set up a preference (or whatever it is) in InDesign whereby if, as an example, I type some obscure characters like ^^% it will autofill to antidisestablishmentarianism. Realistically, I want to set this up for tsp and Tbl so that I don’t need to type out teaspoon or Tablespoon (or have to resort to Find/Change).

      I remember it being an easy procedure, but just can’t seem to reverse engineer how it was accomplished.

      Thanks,

      DTA

    • November 29, 2024 at 9:02 am #14409126
      John Kramer
      Participant

      System setttings > Keyboard, then find Text Input and button for Text Replacements

    • November 29, 2024 at 9:07 am #14409127
      Petar Petrenko
      Participant

      In “Preferences > Autocorrect” click “Add” and type “^^%” as “Misspelled word” and in “Correction” type what you want to appear.

    • November 29, 2024 at 9:47 am #14409129
      David
      Member

      @ Petar: Yep! That’s it! Thanks!
      @ John: That appears to be for text messaging on a Mac. Tried to see if it’d work in InDesign but it didn’t. Helpful hint nonetheless! Thanks!

    • November 30, 2024 at 7:51 am #14409195
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Here’s an article and a video about InDesign’s Autocorrect feature:

      Hidden Autoexpand Feature in InDesign


      and

      InDesign How-to Video: Add Special Characters to Autocorrect

    • November 30, 2024 at 9:42 am #14409197
      David
      Member

      @ David Blatner: Thank you! The video was very interesting. Can I assume Keith’s trick with the .xml file can be tweaked by a competent coder (of which I am the polar opposite) to now add character formatting as well? Like for example, add an italic tag such as: <I>this string of characters will show up italic</I> ?

    • December 1, 2024 at 10:01 am #14409200
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      I don’t remember seeing anything about formatting. I doubt that’s possible.

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