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Let's finish this lesson with a brief consideration of our auto-correct options in Visio. Now, what is auto correct? Auto correct is simply the process of having Visio automatically substitute common misspellings, uh, apply advanced formatting to certain symbols, like, for instance let me try something here. Let me double click in this text box and let me add open paren C close paren. Actually, it's not working there. You see stuff like that at work in the other Office 2007 applications like word or Excel, but it looks like it's not happening here. Well, why don't we go in and take a look and see exactly which auto-correct options are available in Visio 2007. To do that we'll open the tools menu and come down about four-fifths of the way to auto-correct options. Ah this is why it didn't make the change. They're all turned off. Now, you see two sections to this dialog box. You see auto correct and auto format as you type. Why don't I flip all of these on here. This replace text as you type is particularly cool. What you see here is whenever Visio sees what's on the left, it will replace it with what's on the right. And this can be helpful in terms of your creating common symbols like the registered trademark symbol, the copyright symbol and so on. In other words, three dots will turn into an ellipse and you'll see other common misspellings shortcut. For instance, every time I put TLW1, for instance, I can replace that with my name. You see? So you can actually macro this out quite a bit. Let me click add and I've added that in. So now let's click OK, double click our text box and let's try some of these things. First we'll try TLW1, press space and bang, it's expanded the text. If we do open paren C close paren space, we have ourself a copyright symbol. Soon as we do an emoticon, colon, close paren, we get a smiley face. So this is how you generate some of these non-alphanumeric characters, these symbols that some people think are so cute and so nice. Let's return to the tools menu, come back down to auto-correction options and go to auto format as you type. These are lesser changes that can still have a good impact on the aesthetics, I guess, and readability of your Visio drawings. For instance, straight quotes with smart quotes. Straight quotes would just be the carrot symbol, the straight up and down vertical quotation marks. Smart quotes are the angled, more book-like quotes. Fractions one forward slash two with the fraction characters, so instead of occupying three characters worth of space, you'll have a special fraction character that occupies only one character's worth of space. You can automatically put ordinals in superscript. We can convert hyphens to what's called an m-dash and here we have our smiley faces and arrows into special symbols. So what does this look like? If we do equal, equal, close angle bracket, we get ourselves a nice arrow. That's pretty cool. Let me see. What else can we do? I actually forgot the options already. That's how good my memory is. Let me open up tools, auto-correct options. Let's see. Straight quotes, fractions and superscript. Ok. I am the first, see how that works; teacher who, You notice how I hit dot, dot, dot, or actually period, period, period, extra space was buffed in there to provide the ellipses. One forward slash two space and we have ourself a fraction character that's a little bit more professional. So hopefully you get the idea. The auto-correct options can be awfully handy for the casual user. Sometimes, though, you may feel that they take a little bit too much of a liberty. That's why I turn them off myself. But your mileage may vary, to use that shopworn expression.