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How to transfer Autocorrect options to a new user?
I'm running Word 2007 and Vista Business with several users on the same
computer. I want to make the autocorrect options created for one user available to another user, without having to retype them all. I can't see where the autocorrect options are stored. Previous answers on this topic refer to earlier versions of Windows and Word and don't seem to apply in my case. (E.g. I don't have any mso*.acl files on my computer) Any help would be much appreciated! |
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How to transfer Autocorrect options to a new user?
Frustrated wrote:
I'm running Word 2007 and Vista Business with several users on the same computer. I want to make the autocorrect options created for one user available to another user, without having to retype them all. I can't see where the autocorrect options are stored. Previous answers on this topic refer to earlier versions of Windows and Word and don't seem to apply in my case. (E.g. I don't have any mso*.acl files on my computer) Any help would be much appreciated! Download http://jay-freedman.info/AutoCorrect2007.zip. Unzip it, and copy the resulting template into the Templates folder of each user on the computer. For each user, that's (by default) C:\Users\user name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates. In order to see this folder, first you have to enable display of hidden folders because AppData and everything under it is hidden. In the Computer application (formerly Windows Explorer), press Alt+T to open the Tools menu, select Folder Options, go to the View tab, and select "Show hidden files and folders". Sign in as the user that has the entries, make a new document based on the AutoCorrect.dotm template, and click the Backup button. That creates a document containing all the entries available to that user. Save the document in a folder that's available to all the users, such as the Public Documents folder. Sign in as each of the other users, make a new document based on the AutoCorrect.dotm template, and click the Restore button. When it displays the Open dialog, choose the document created by the first user. By the way, you do have at least one mso*.acl file if any of your autocorrect entries are unformatted. It's stored in the folder C:\Users\user name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Office. Until you set the option to display hidden files and folders, you wouldn't be able to see it, and a search wouldn't find it. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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How to transfer Autocorrect options to a new user?
Fantastic! This worked.
I might just mention that the reason I had to do this is that I have to continually create new users as the old ones get corrupted. The symptoms are that every now and then Word gets into "not responding" mode and freezes. I have tried reinstalling Word and even Vista but nothing works (yes, I have SP1). The solution eventually offered by Dell support is to create a new user. This overcomes the problem but at the cost of losing all my settings --- till now. "Jay Freedman" wrote: Frustrated wrote: I'm running Word 2007 and Vista Business with several users on the same computer. I want to make the autocorrect options created for one user available to another user, without having to retype them all. I can't see where the autocorrect options are stored. Previous answers on this topic refer to earlier versions of Windows and Word and don't seem to apply in my case. (E.g. I don't have any mso*.acl files on my computer) Any help would be much appreciated! Download http://jay-freedman.info/AutoCorrect2007.zip. Unzip it, and copy the resulting template into the Templates folder of each user on the computer. For each user, that's (by default) C:\Users\user name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates. In order to see this folder, first you have to enable display of hidden folders because AppData and everything under it is hidden. In the Computer application (formerly Windows Explorer), press Alt+T to open the Tools menu, select Folder Options, go to the View tab, and select "Show hidden files and folders". Sign in as the user that has the entries, make a new document based on the AutoCorrect.dotm template, and click the Backup button. That creates a document containing all the entries available to that user. Save the document in a folder that's available to all the users, such as the Public Documents folder. Sign in as each of the other users, make a new document based on the AutoCorrect.dotm template, and click the Restore button. When it displays the Open dialog, choose the document created by the first user. By the way, you do have at least one mso*.acl file if any of your autocorrect entries are unformatted. It's stored in the folder C:\Users\user name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Office. Until you set the option to display hidden files and folders, you wouldn't be able to see it, and a search wouldn't find it. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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How to transfer Autocorrect options to a new user?
I feel sure there must be some other way, but in any case, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/FilesToBackup.htm for other files to back up. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Frustrated" wrote in message ... Fantastic! This worked. I might just mention that the reason I had to do this is that I have to continually create new users as the old ones get corrupted. The symptoms are that every now and then Word gets into "not responding" mode and freezes. I have tried reinstalling Word and even Vista but nothing works (yes, I have SP1). The solution eventually offered by Dell support is to create a new user. This overcomes the problem but at the cost of losing all my settings --- till now. "Jay Freedman" wrote: Frustrated wrote: I'm running Word 2007 and Vista Business with several users on the same computer. I want to make the autocorrect options created for one user available to another user, without having to retype them all. I can't see where the autocorrect options are stored. Previous answers on this topic refer to earlier versions of Windows and Word and don't seem to apply in my case. (E.g. I don't have any mso*.acl files on my computer) Any help would be much appreciated! Download http://jay-freedman.info/AutoCorrect2007.zip. Unzip it, and copy the resulting template into the Templates folder of each user on the computer. For each user, that's (by default) C:\Users\user name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates. In order to see this folder, first you have to enable display of hidden folders because AppData and everything under it is hidden. In the Computer application (formerly Windows Explorer), press Alt+T to open the Tools menu, select Folder Options, go to the View tab, and select "Show hidden files and folders". Sign in as the user that has the entries, make a new document based on the AutoCorrect.dotm template, and click the Backup button. That creates a document containing all the entries available to that user. Save the document in a folder that's available to all the users, such as the Public Documents folder. Sign in as each of the other users, make a new document based on the AutoCorrect.dotm template, and click the Restore button. When it displays the Open dialog, choose the document created by the first user. By the way, you do have at least one mso*.acl file if any of your autocorrect entries are unformatted. It's stored in the folder C:\Users\user name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Office. Until you set the option to display hidden files and folders, you wouldn't be able to see it, and a search wouldn't find it. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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