As Bob says, this is often caused by an add-in. The most common culprit is
Adobe Acrobat 7; if you have that installed, see
http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm. Regardless of the
cause, you can force a save of Normal.dot using File | Save All as explained
in Graham's article.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"vee" wrote in message
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I run win XP and in Office 2003 Word the same ±20 autocorrects disapear
every
time I close word. If I create a new Normal.dot I lose all of them and my
autotexts which are quite extensive