Acronym Glossary Builder
Paste a report, document, or email. All acronyms in capital letters are detected automatically. Add definitions and copy a formatted glossary.
Every industry has its acronym problem. Documents get written with abbreviations that are obvious to the author and opaque to half the audience.
A glossary appended to a report, proposal, or briefing document is a small thing that significantly improves readability for anyone not deep in the subject. This tool does the tedious part — scanning for all the capital-letter sequences — so you just add the definitions and copy the result.
How we work it out
The tool scans your text for sequences of 2-8 capital letters (and numbers) using whole-word matching. Common short words like "I," "A," "AN," "IN," and well-known abbreviations that do not need defining are filtered from the results. Duplicates are removed and the list is sorted alphabetically.
Questions
It detected something that is not an acronym. Can I remove it?
The detection is pattern-based — any 2-8 capital letter sequence qualifies. Proper nouns written in full capitals (like company names styled as "ACME") will appear. Simply leave the definition field blank and it will appear as [definition] in the glossary, which you can delete after copying.
What is the tab-separated format for?
Tab-separated output pastes cleanly into Excel or Google Sheets as two columns: acronym and definition. From there you can format it as a table. The list format is better for pasting directly into a Word document or email.
TBH the TPS report can wait.