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Although these fields are often used to hold information that

changes, you can make the content unchangeable by selecting

the Fixed content option (visible in Figure 383, lower right)

when inserting the field. If necessary, you can come back to

this dialog box later and deselect this option to make the field

variable again.

Using AutoText to insert often-used fields

If you use the same fields often, you will want a quick and easy way to

insert them. Use AutoText for this purpose. To define an AutoText entry

for a field:

1) Insert a field into your document, as described previously.

2) Select the field, and then click Edit > AutoText (or press

Ctrl+F3

3) On the AutoText dialog box (Figure 385), choose the group where

this new entry will be stored (in this example, it is going into

AutoText

), type a name for the entry, and change the suggested

shortcut if you wish.

4) Click the AutoText button and click New to have the entry

inserted as a field. Do not choose New (text only) because the

AutoText entry will be plain text, not a field. Click Close to close

the AutoText dialog box.

Now whenever you want to insert this field at the cursor position, type

the shortcut, and then press

Figure 385: Creating a new AutoText entry

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