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Hi
I am trying to replace a formatted text i.e. a bold and underlined period followed by a tab character, with a plain period followed by a tab character. But when I go to the Auto Correct option, it does nothing to the formatting of the period. How could I for one keep a simple unformatted period followed by the tab character?
Explanation:- Every time I type a heading text e.g. Color of Pens, I would prefer formatting it by making it bold and underline it. then I would place a period (.) after this. But doing this, underlines the period and also makes it bold. But that is not my requirement. So, I have to select it then remove the underline and bold formatting of that period. I have to reiterate it time and again. I thought may be there is some way to get rid of this auto formatting but in vain, since, the AutoCorrect does not offer a replacement to formatted text. Although it does replace the unformatted text with the formatted one. Watch this pic:-
This is an off-topic comment.
You should be using a heading style to format your heading rather than direct formatting. That does not, though, address your request.
Remember that bold and underline are both toggle formatting.
Charles, while your comment is strictly off-topic, it is still good advice. :-)
The trigger (= the replaced string) in an AutoCorrect entry is always unformatted. I think that explains why you can't use an AutoCorrect entry to "remove formatting" in the way you are describing.
To clear bold formatting at the insertion point, you can press Ctrl+B. Or you can press Ctrl+SpaceBar to revert the formatting to that of the underlying style (if applicable).
Ctril+SpaceBar works! Thank you :) Although I suggest MS to consider auto correcting the formatted text by replacing it with the unformatted one. An option may be made available in the AutoCorrect menu.
Thanks for the feedback.
As I wrote, you can use AutoCorrect to insert any type of content, but the "trigger" is always an unformatted text string. A text string will be replaced with another text string (the simplest case) or with any type of content and formatting that is supported in Word. This is how Word works. You can suggest a change by using the feedback facility. In Word for Windows, click File > Feedback.
Hi @Haseeb Ahmed ,
What's the formatted text?
I can use the Autocorrect option to get the result:
Please be a bit more precise to explain your requirement or you can upload a screenshot so that I can get more accurate solutions to this problem. I’m glad to help and follow up your reply.
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