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AutoText entries will not save after closing and re-opening MS Wor
When I add new AutoText entries in MS Word I can use them fine but when I
close Word and re-open it the entries are gone and I have to re-do them again. Is there a fix for this? |
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Is Adobe Acrobat 7.0 installed on the computer? If so, the
Acrobat 7.0 Create Adobe PDF toolbar add-in for Word prevents Word from automatically saving changes to the normal.dot template (which is where autotext is stored). Create/change the autotext again, and click "Shift+File | Save All" to force Word to save the normal.dot template. Alternatively, you can prevent the add-in from loading as described in the last section of http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm , but you'll lose the PDF toolbar if you do this. Gordon SArmy wrote: When I add new AutoText entries in MS Word I can use them fine but when I close Word and re-open it the entries are gone and I have to re-do them again. Is there a fix for this? |
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Garfield,
Thanks for replying so quick. I do have Adobe 7.0 Pro installed. I used the fix from the tip and link you added and it worked like a Charm.Thanks for the help. "garfield-n-odie" wrote: Is Adobe Acrobat 7.0 installed on the computer? If so, the Acrobat 7.0 Create Adobe PDF toolbar add-in for Word prevents Word from automatically saving changes to the normal.dot template (which is where autotext is stored). Create/change the autotext again, and click "Shift+File | Save All" to force Word to save the normal.dot template. Alternatively, you can prevent the add-in from loading as described in the last section of http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm , but you'll lose the PDF toolbar if you do this. Gordon SArmy wrote: When I add new AutoText entries in MS Word I can use them fine but when I close Word and re-open it the entries are gone and I have to re-do them again. Is there a fix for this? |
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Hi Gordon,
In addtion to garfield's recommendation, you might want to consider the following. An alternative that I recommend is never save any customizations in normal.dot. Word is too vulnerable and frequently replacing normal.dot is a recommended repair. If this happens you will loose all customizations. I suggest that you: 1. In word's templates directory rename or delete your normal.dot. The next time you start word you will have a clean normal.dot. (note that all customizations to the previous normal.dot will be detleted. 2. Copy this normal.dot to yourname.dot 3. Make any new autotext entries and keyboard shortcuts to yourname.dot. 4. Then if you want your name.dot to be the default template, delete your normal.dot again and copy yourname.dot back to normal.dat. However, keep yourname.dot available just in case your normal.dot becomes corrupted or it needs to be replaced. Then, all you need to do is make a new normal.dot from yourname.dot. This will recover all you customizations. I also recommend that the only thing you do with yourname.dot is keep your customizations there. If you do not open files in yourname.dot, it will never become corrupted. Jim -- Never at a loss for Word "garfield-n-odie" wrote: Is Adobe Acrobat 7.0 installed on the computer? If so, the Acrobat 7.0 Create Adobe PDF toolbar add-in for Word prevents Word from automatically saving changes to the normal.dot template (which is where autotext is stored). Create/change the autotext again, and click "Shift+File | Save All" to force Word to save the normal.dot template. Alternatively, you can prevent the add-in from loading as described in the last section of http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm , but you'll lose the PDF toolbar if you do this. Gordon SArmy wrote: When I add new AutoText entries in MS Word I can use them fine but when I close Word and re-open it the entries are gone and I have to re-do them again. Is there a fix for this? |
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See http://addbalance.com/word/movetotemplate.htm for step-by-step
instructions on moving / sharing / copying / backing-up customizations including AutoText, AutoCorrect, keyboard assignments, toolbars, macros, etc. -- 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. "Jim Palik" wrote in message news Hi Gordon, In addtion to garfield's recommendation, you might want to consider the following. An alternative that I recommend is never save any customizations in normal.dot. Word is too vulnerable and frequently replacing normal.dot is a recommended repair. If this happens you will loose all customizations. I suggest that you: 1. In word's templates directory rename or delete your normal.dot. The next time you start word you will have a clean normal.dot. (note that all customizations to the previous normal.dot will be detleted. 2. Copy this normal.dot to yourname.dot 3. Make any new autotext entries and keyboard shortcuts to yourname.dot. 4. Then if you want your name.dot to be the default template, delete your normal.dot again and copy yourname.dot back to normal.dat. However, keep yourname.dot available just in case your normal.dot becomes corrupted or it needs to be replaced. Then, all you need to do is make a new normal.dot from yourname.dot. This will recover all you customizations. I also recommend that the only thing you do with yourname.dot is keep your customizations there. If you do not open files in yourname.dot, it will never become corrupted. Jim -- Never at a loss for Word "garfield-n-odie" wrote: Is Adobe Acrobat 7.0 installed on the computer? If so, the Acrobat 7.0 Create Adobe PDF toolbar add-in for Word prevents Word from automatically saving changes to the normal.dot template (which is where autotext is stored). Create/change the autotext again, and click "Shift+File | Save All" to force Word to save the normal.dot template. Alternatively, you can prevent the add-in from loading as described in the last section of http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm , but you'll lose the PDF toolbar if you do this. Gordon SArmy wrote: When I add new AutoText entries in MS Word I can use them fine but when I close Word and re-open it the entries are gone and I have to re-do them again. Is there a fix for this? |
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