Hello Everyone,

If I want to type out a sentence and then put a button beside it that lets people copy the sentence by just pressing the button is that possible?

Thank you in advance,
Chris

What is the purpose of this? The end game?

Why would they need a button, when triple-clicking would select the whole paragraph?

You also need to be aware that VBA has no idea what a grammatical sentence is. For example, consider the following:
Mr. Smith spent $1,234.56 at Dr. John's Grocery Store, to buy: 10.25kg of potatoes; 10kg of avocados; and 15.1kg of Mrs. Green's Mt. Pleasant macadamia nuts.
For you and me, that would count as one sentence; for VBA it counts as 5 sentences.

A button-based solution would require VBA.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

So right now You have to copy the sentence, right click on it, copy to clipboard and then you can paste it.

Or you can copy it, Ctrl+V, then paste it.

I was just trying to make it so they didn't have to copy it, and then paste it. I am an Automotive instructor and there are certain sentences like "Working as designed at time of testing."

Right now they copy the sentence from word and paste it to the programing they use to fill out repair orders. I was just trying to make it easier for them. Where I could put a button or clipboard icon or something they could click instead of highlighting the whole sentence and then copying it.

I hope the above makes sense. I can rebuild an engine with every part disassembled in no order and scattered, but I have a hard time with things like this.

Look into AutoText.
AutoText

Carnau, any luck with this? I second Mr. Kenyon's recommendation of AutoText. It requires a little setup but if you use phrases, sentences, paragraphs, or lists over and over again, it's really easy to use. I also keep a button on my Quick Access Toolbar (see image) which can get me into the most common ones.

Another little trick is, you can use Word's AutoCorrect feature to help you. Rather than my typing out Report of Geotechnical Engineering Exploration every time, I have a custom AutoCorrect to when I type GEX it replaces with those words written out. Or if it's sometimes something i want in the abbreviated form (AASHTO) and sometimes written out "American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)" I make the trigger something unique, like "&AASHTO" or "AASHTOx". That way when I just type it normally it doesn't expand. You'd set these up under File/Options/Proofing/Autocorrect Options. The thing is, each user would have to set this up on his or her Word profile. There's a way to share the AutoText as embedded with a particular template, which is helpful if more than one person is going to be using it.

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As it appears that the phrases to be copied are to be pasted into another application then another approach would be to use a content control list box that contains the phrases coupled with a simple macro that copies the selected item from the list box to the clipboard. See the example attached. You can edit the list from the content controls properties, or more simply by using Insert Content Control Add-In

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Graham, you just gave me something to look into, hopefully next week when we should be slow at the office. I haven't used Content Controls very extensively, so it'll give me something to explore further. So whether or not it addresses the OP's needs, thanks!

Best regards,

Ann