DOS‐tips: Making Do

Abstract

You may have had the experience of typing a document in which a specific word or phrase, perhaps a company or library name, occurs repeatedly in the text. To save yourself the trouble of frequent retyping, simply enter a code such as “@1” everywhere the repeating word or phrase occurs. Then, when the whole document is entered, use your word processor's “Find and Replace” function to replace “@1” with the actual text. You can have several of these “macros” in one document by using codes “@2”, “@3”, etc. (Watch out if you get to “@10”. A “@1” is hiding in there!)

Citation

Bendig, M. (1987), "DOS‐tips: Making Do", OCLC Micro, Vol. 3 No. 4, pp. 13-13. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb055848