Auto Text/complete

For examples such as this, AutoCorrect would be more suitable than AutoText (if only because it's a lot easier to create and modify multiple entries). But regardless of which you use, there's no reason the entry name has to be the same as the entry. If you select, say,  "incd" and "incn" as the AutoText entry names or AutoCorrect shortcuts, you'll type only four letters, and with AutoCorrect the replacement will be automatic.

Or...

You could name your AutoText entries names that are unique in the first four letters. The names of AutoText entries need not have anything to do with what is actually in the entry. For instance you could name the entry for incorporated inc1 and for incorporation inc2.

Automated Boilerplate Using Microsoft Word

I appreciate people taking the time to respond, but the reason I posted the comment here is that I can't find any kind of direct feedback to Microsoft about their products.

Regarding the autocomplete feature, it is simply poorly designed. I should not have to type the preponderance of a word to get the software to complete the last few letters nor should I have to memorize numerous cryptograms that can be converted into the words I actually want. The solution is to offer multiple completions with some way of conveniently selecting the one you want (keyboard, not mouse).

My next attempt will be to write macros to capture and display completions.

No, what I am asking for is 'auto-completion'. I don't want Word guessing what I am trying to type. I just want it to look at the words I have added to a database and give me a list of the ones that start with the letters I have typed (after some minimum count). Right now, if there are two similar words in its database, you must type until it can make an unambiguous choice before it will make a suggestion. This is not very useful.

As far as the complexity of Word is concerned, I have little doubt, but that is not the same as well designed. I have written OO code for decades, and fully appreciate the importance of code architecture to make complex code easy to use. Word appears to be functionally designed from the bottom up, not the top down.