Is your normal.dot read-only or in a restricted folder?
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"JS in KC" wrote in message
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Charles,

Still no luck. (Tried a paragraph with the abbreviation "para1"
JS

"Charles Kenyon" wrote:

Have your AT entry names be at least four characters in length,
preferably a
unique first four letters.
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"JS in KC" JS in wrote in message
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Gap,

OK, step by step...
Created new Word document
Entered "Texas"
Selected Texas, chose Insert: AutoText: AutoText
The "Lookin" says "All Active Templates"
Entered abbreviation "tx" and cicked Add

Now I can type "tx," press F3 and I get "Texas."
Close and save the Word document and start a new one
Enter "tx" and press F3: nothing. The AutoText entry is gone
Open the Word Document where I entered the AutoText entry. It's
unavailable
there also.

I tried the process again and changed the "Look In" to Normal.dot. The
AutoText entry didn't work at all!

John

"gap" wrote:

I"m not sure if I understand your predicament but in my computer (Word
2003)
I placed some AutoText Entries (via InsertAutoText) and set the "look
in"
box to "all active templates" and it comes up in any/all documents.

Instead of placing the autotext entry in the Normal.dot try placing it
in
"all active templates". See if that works.

gap

"JS in KC" wrote:

Since upgrading to Office 2003 Professional Edition, when I create a
new
AutoText entry, it is only available in the current document, while
I'm
working on that document. If I close the document and start a new
one,
the
AutoText entry is not availalble.

I am using the Normal.dot template. When we upgraded, all of the old
AutoText entries I had in my previous version of Word were
transferred
automatically. I just can't create new ones that are available in
other
documents, UNLESS I open Normal.dot and create them there.

John