Toggle Word

The Toggle macro is similar to the Journals macro in that it has two components: the macro itself and a Manager. The Manager is where words and phrases are entered, creating the dataset from which the Toggle Word macro draws. The Manager, shown here, enables you to insert words, phrases, and symbols in the From and To fields.

The easiest and best way to use the Toggle Word macro and Manager is to assign each to its own key or key combination, such as F11 and F12. Doing so makes using Toggle Word quick and efficient.

Toggle Word makes it easy to change words/phrases from, for example, author style to house style and from acronym to spell out. And it always makes changes with Track Changes on, turning tracking on if it is off. For example, consider the following list:

Each items can be individually changed with the press of a key (if Toggle Word macro has been assigned to a key), as shown here:

In the case of phrases (e.g., 2,4-D, ACC/AHA, B. anthracis, (1) in the example), select the phrase and run Toggle Word; in the case of an individual word (e.g., SIADH, commonest, 29 in the example), simply place your cursor in the word and run Toggle Word.

The advantage of Toggle Word is that its dataset is virtually unlimited, which means that it can contain thousands of entries, all of which are available each time you use EditTools to edit a document. Imagine how much quicker and easier it would be, for example, to change numbers to letters, to spell out acronyms, to change an author’s style to the house style, to change one symbol (e.g., an n-dash or an x) to another (e.g., a minus sign or multiplication sign). Think of the time that would be saved and the typing errors that would be avoided.

Imagine how useful Toggle Word can be for you!