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Fields are placeholders for values that might change from one time or place to another. For example, page numbers, dates, file names, and table of contents.

Building Blocks (such as AutoText and Quick Parts) entries store in Word templates. You can back-up all the templates including your own template files and copy them elsewhere. You’ll also learn how to share these custom Building Blocks templates with other users.

If you receive an unformatted or skimpily formatted document, AutoFormat may be able to help.

AutoFormat As You Type provides a dozen or so options for having Word apply formatting automatically to your documents when you type particular combinations of characters.

Some documents require characters not found on a standard keyboard, such as, copyright (©) or registered trademark (®) symbols, or currency symbols (such as € or £). Or you might want to add arrows.

When you type, you may make typing, spelling, capitalization, or grammar errors. Word’s AutoCorrect feature automatically corrects these kinds of errors as you type them in the document. For example, if you type teh, Word automatically changes it to the correct spelling, the, when you press the spacebar or a punctuation mark key.

Learn how to create your own Quick Parts and AutoText (AutoComplete) entries that you may need to insert frequently in various documents.

You can create sample or dummy text quickly by doing some typing and then using Copy and Paste, but Word also offers some automated ways, such as rand() function to generate random text, rand.old() function to generate the text “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” and lorem() function to generate the traditional “Lorem ipsum” placeholder text.

How to disable, enable or customize the smart-cut-and-paste behavior to correspond to a particular version of Word, or choose custom settings that suit you.