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How do you put 20-year-old in auto correct/expanded type? - Thanks. No message

Posted: Jul 21, 2011

y-o - ohiocarole

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Sorry, you can't have to actually type 20-
and then put yo in as year-old. Otherwise you get an extra space. I know PRD expander will insert without the space but MS Word doesn't recognize it. There are probably other expanders out there that will work too but pretty pricey.

In autocorrect type simply this ;yo - Hayseed

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In the "replace" box type in ;yo
In the "With" box type in -year-old

Then test it out. Whenever you type a number immediately followed by the ;yo (no space!) 20;yo it should automatically format it to 20-year-old

Repeat ;mo for -month-old if you'd like etc.
:-)

THANK YOU - Not the original poster

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but I was trying to figure out how to fix mine the other night so it didn't have an extra space I had to fix. I had to add a character (;yox) but it works like a charm!

Thank you - I didn't know that - ohiocarole

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