Jay, I followed your instructions and can get the old autotext entries into
the building block store, however, is there now way of being able to create a
short name for the autotext entries (as was in 2002) and then when you type
that short name in the document and hit enter key, it puts all of the
autotext entry into the document. (ie. if you had legal paragraphs that you
use in different letters). This is really what our user's want.
Diane
"Jay Freedman" wrote:
Don't try to "convert" an old normal.dot to normal.dotx. It could have
unpleasant side effects.
Copy/rename the old normal.dot template to something like MyAutoText.dot. If
it contains any macros, delete them. Store this template in the folder
%appdata%\Microsoft\Document Building Blocks
(paste that line into the address box of Windows Explorer and press Enter to
get to the folder even though it's hidden). Then restart Word.
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Regards,
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Diane wrote:
I have several users that have multiple autotext entries in Word
2002. We have just upgraded to Office 2007. They would like to
convert their 2002 Autotext entries into 2007 Word AutoText which is
now Building Blocks. Does anyone know how to do this? Is there a
way to take their normal.dot file and convert into 2007 normal.dotx
file?
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