Auto Replace £

[RoyReed]

Is it possible for Auto Replace to change the £ sign to £ when a number is typed after £. For me it only changes to £ when I type a space after £.

Win7 Pro 64 SP1
v11.0.0.126

[chrisjlocke]

Yes, the auto-replace is only triggered after the end of a word, eg, using punctuation, space, or Enter.
Rather than support, I would suggest putting a post in the 'requests' forum (or I can move this post, which might be easier) so other users can vote on it. If its a popular suggestion, it might get implemented into a future version.

[RoyReed]

Please move it to requests - probably applies to all currency symbols apart from $.

Maybe this could be automatic if the charset is non-UTF-8.

[garethjmsaunders]

I've created a snippet that uses replacement tokens to do this for me, with a simple shortcut key:

Name: Pound
Shortcut key: CTRL + SHIFT + 3
Insert before caret: £%[Amount in British sterling]%
Insert after caret: <BLANK>

So rather than pressing SHIFT + 3 to insert a £ symbol I add the CTRL and it pops up a dialog box asking me "Amount in British sterling". I insert the amount, e.g. 4,500 and when I click OK it inserts:

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£4,500

If I instead click the CANCEL button on the pop-up dialog box then it just inserts

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£

Gareth

[FrankC]

Smart, Gareth! Works for the euro, too, even though Ctrl+Alt+5 by system already was assigned to the euro sign (not Shift+5).