Can I set AutoCorrect to work with inserted text (not typed)?

[kyjac85]

I'm trying to get autocorrect to change ,, (two commas) into one comma whenever it detects them. It will only do this if I am actually typing the commas, not if I insert something that has a comma already attached to it. Here is an example of what I am trying to do:

#existing sentence
it is an aged,

#macro inserted text
, uh,

#current results
it is an aged,, uh,



#desired results
it is an aged, uh,

Is this something I would need to have a macro for or is there a setting maybe?

[macropod]

Hi kyjac,

You don't really need a macro for processing the text - a simple Find/Replace will do:
Find = ,,
Replace = ,
And, if you're going to have to do that anyway, there's not much benefit in having the autocorrect entry.

[kyjac85]

Originally Posted by macropod

Hi kyjac,

You don't really need a macro for processing the text - a simple Find/Replace will do:
Find = ,,
Replace = ,
And, if you're going to have to do that anyway, there's not much benefit in having the autocorrect entry.

Yea I hear what you are saying. I'm just trying to make things go as fast as possible as I already have to find/replace a few other things as well. Thanks though.

[macropod]

If you have multiple Find/Replace operations that need to be executed together, that would certainly be conducive to macro use. The simplest way to create such a macro is to start the macro recorder, input & execute all the Find/Replace operations, then stop the macro recorder. The code that gets produced won't be pretty, but it should be effective.