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AutoCorrect Entries for Typing Greek

Being somewhat of a font packrat, I'm always on the prowl for new Greek fonts. I came across Ralph Hancock's Antioch utility. I've not used the utility itself, but the fonts included with the package are nice. What kept me coming back to his site, though, was the free extras towards the bottom of the page. There's a nice AutoCorrect entry manager for Word on the Windows platform, but none for the Mac side of things. So I found a way to use an Applescript to approximate what Hancock's VBA macros do. The Script Paste this script (without the equal signs above and below) into an AppleScript Editor Window: ===== (* AutoCorrect List Manager by J. W. Johnston Assumes an "=" between the name (left side, i.e., what you type) and the value (right side, i.e., what Word replaces it with) Seems to work best if you work with an unformatted text list. Each desired entry must go on a line by itself, no spaces separating the "=" Use at your own