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How to set my Insert Auto Text list back to defaults ?
Someone in my office customized the Insert Auto Text drop-down list (that
we use to insert text into headers and footers) on 1 computer (and then left)! I need to get it back to the defaults of: - PAGE - Author, Page #, Date Confidential, Page #, Date Created by Created on Filename Filename and path Last printed Last saved by Page X of Y I've gone into Tools, Templates and Add-ins, Organizer, Auto Text, but I can't get anything to change. It'a a little tough to get help, because I don't have Internet access at work. |
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Unless someone intentionally deleted the AT entries, it's likely someone
saved a document as Normal.dot. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm for options. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "wrgaphardt" wrote in message news Someone in my office customized the Insert Auto Text drop-down list (that we use to insert text into headers and footers) on 1 computer (and then left)! I need to get it back to the defaults of: - PAGE - Author, Page #, Date Confidential, Page #, Date Created by Created on Filename Filename and path Last printed Last saved by Page X of Y I've gone into Tools, Templates and Add-ins, Organizer, Auto Text, but I can't get anything to change. It'a a little tough to get help, because I don't have Internet access at work. |
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If it is empty chances are that someone replaced normal.dot with a different
file. You can generate a new normal.dot by following the instructions at http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErr...ocNotBlank.htm. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "wrgaphardt" wrote in message news Someone in my office customized the Insert Auto Text drop-down list (that we use to insert text into headers and footers) on 1 computer (and then left)! I need to get it back to the defaults of: - PAGE - Author, Page #, Date Confidential, Page #, Date Created by Created on Filename Filename and path Last printed Last saved by Page X of Y I've gone into Tools, Templates and Add-ins, Organizer, Auto Text, but I can't get anything to change. It'a a little tough to get help, because I don't have Internet access at work. |
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Thanks Suzanne. Actually, what someone had done was to delete all the
defaults and replace them with a list of employee's names, so that they could insert their names into the footer. Apparently, he knew how to edit normal.dot, but I never did find a way to open it without it opening as a blank Word document. (Right-clicking and selecting OPEN did the same thing.) And, it was unreadable when I sent it to Notepad. However, I was able to get things back to "normal" by copying a good normal.dot onto a diskette and copying it onto the computer with the bad one. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Unless someone intentionally deleted the AT entries, it's likely someone saved a document as Normal.dot. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm for options. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "wrgaphardt" wrote in message news Someone in my office customized the Insert Auto Text drop-down list (that we use to insert text into headers and footers) on 1 computer (and then left)! I need to get it back to the defaults of: - PAGE - Author, Page #, Date Confidential, Page #, Date Created by Created on Filename Filename and path Last printed Last saved by Page X of Y I've gone into Tools, Templates and Add-ins, Organizer, Auto Text, but I can't get anything to change. It'a a little tough to get help, because I don't have Internet access at work. |
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You can generate a fresh copy of Normal.dot just by renaming the existing
one. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "wrgaphardt" wrote in message news Thanks Suzanne. Actually, what someone had done was to delete all the defaults and replace them with a list of employee's names, so that they could insert their names into the footer. Apparently, he knew how to edit normal.dot, but I never did find a way to open it without it opening as a blank Word document. (Right-clicking and selecting OPEN did the same thing.) And, it was unreadable when I sent it to Notepad. However, I was able to get things back to "normal" by copying a good normal.dot onto a diskette and copying it onto the computer with the bad one. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Unless someone intentionally deleted the AT entries, it's likely someone saved a document as Normal.dot. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm for options. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "wrgaphardt" wrote in message news Someone in my office customized the Insert Auto Text drop-down list (that we use to insert text into headers and footers) on 1 computer (and then left)! I need to get it back to the defaults of: - PAGE - Author, Page #, Date Confidential, Page #, Date Created by Created on Filename Filename and path Last printed Last saved by Page X of Y I've gone into Tools, Templates and Add-ins, Organizer, Auto Text, but I can't get anything to change. It'a a little tough to get help, because I don't have Internet access at work. |
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