Is there a limit to the autotext database? I am loosing Autotext that I
put in routinely. Where is it going, why does this happen and what is the
fix?

lsl

No theoretical limit. Do you have Acrobat 7? If so, see the last section of
http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"linda" wrote in message
...
Is there a limit to the autotext database? I am loosing Autotext that I
put in routinely. Where is it going, why does this happen and what is
the
fix?

lsl

ADOBE is loaded on my system, 6.1, but I could not find the hkey file etc.
In other words, Adobe is messing up how Word saves the autotext?? Is this
corrected in XP or is this still a problem? I have read the article and
understand it, but we need a fix that doesn't need alot of work as the other
people using it are not PC lit!.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

No theoretical limit. Do you have Acrobat 7? If so, see the last section of
http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm

--
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.

"linda" wrote in message
...
Is there a limit to the autotext database? I am loosing Autotext that I
put in routinely. Where is it going, why does this happen and what is
the
fix?

lsl

It is only Acrobat 7 that prevents Word from saving normal.dot changes.
Acrobat 6 uses a different type of add-in and does not have this issue. The
only thing I can think of is that the user(s) may have experienced a Word
crash followed by a request to save changes to normal.dot which has replaced
the modified template with a default one.

See http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm followed by
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...peningWord.htm (even if the url
title seems to suggest a different issue) and work through the troublke
shooting tips there.

Do not even think of sharing normal.dot on a network!

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org






linda wrote:
ADOBE is loaded on my system, 6.1, but I could not find the hkey file
etc. In other words, Adobe is messing up how Word saves the
autotext?? Is this corrected in XP or is this still a problem? I
have read the article and understand it, but we need a fix that
doesn't need alot of work as the other people using it are not PC
lit!.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

No theoretical limit. Do you have Acrobat 7? If so, see the last
section of http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm

--
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.

"linda" wrote in message
...
Is there a limit to the autotext database? I am loosing Autotext
that I put in routinely. Where is it going, why does this happen
and what is the fix?

lsl

No, a previous version of Acrobat would not cause this problem. Acrobat 7
prevents Normal.dot from being saved; by default, AutoText entries are
stored in Normal.dot, so this would prevent new AutoText entries from being
saved. But if you don't have Acrobat 7, then the problem lies elsewhere.

--
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.

"linda" wrote in message
...
ADOBE is loaded on my system, 6.1, but I could not find the hkey file etc.
In other words, Adobe is messing up how Word saves the autotext?? Is this
corrected in XP or is this still a problem? I have read the article and
understand it, but we need a fix that doesn't need alot of work as the
other
people using it are not PC lit!.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

No theoretical limit. Do you have Acrobat 7? If so, see the last section
of
http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm

--
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.

"linda" wrote in message
...
Is there a limit to the autotext database? I am loosing Autotext
that I
put in routinely. Where is it going, why does this happen and what
is
the
fix?

lsl

What is bizarre is that it will work fine and then all of a sudden, text that
was put in 6 years ago is still there, but things recently put in are gone.
It is frustrating because it is hard to know when it happened and how much
was lost, as well as, what changes that were made are not longer there!! It
seems to have a mind of its own! My word has not crashed in a long time,
which is what makes it harder to define.

Thansk

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

No, a previous version of Acrobat would not cause this problem. Acrobat 7
prevents Normal.dot from being saved; by default, AutoText entries are
stored in Normal.dot, so this would prevent new AutoText entries from being
saved. But if you don't have Acrobat 7, then the problem lies elsewhere.

--
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.

"linda" wrote in message
...
ADOBE is loaded on my system, 6.1, but I could not find the hkey file etc.
In other words, Adobe is messing up how Word saves the autotext?? Is this
corrected in XP or is this still a problem? I have read the article and
understand it, but we need a fix that doesn't need alot of work as the
other
people using it are not PC lit!.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

No theoretical limit. Do you have Acrobat 7? If so, see the last section
of
http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm

--
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.

"linda" wrote in message
...
Is there a limit to the autotext database? I am loosing Autotext
that I
put in routinely. Where is it going, why does this happen and what
is
the
fix?

lsl