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restore autotext?
I just located my 'missing' Normal.dot in user\application
data\Microsoft\templates, after cleaning up Word 2002. I can see it 2,929 KB as a Word Backup Document but I don't know how to restore it as my normal.doc Autotext. Anyone out there who can help? I will be eternally grateful. . . |
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Kris - Idaho wrote:
I just located my 'missing' Normal.dot in user\application data\Microsoft\templates, after cleaning up Word 2002. I can see it 2,929 KB as a Word Backup Document but I don't know how to restore it as my normal.doc Autotext. Anyone out there who can help? I will be eternally grateful. . . Download the AutotextDumper and AutotextLoader templates from http://jay-freedman.info. Unzip both of them into your Templates folder. Rename the Normal.dot backup file to something like OldNormal.dot (the first part can be anything that isn't already in use, but the extension must be ..dot). In Word, go to File New and base a new document on AutotextDumper.dot. Click the button on the floating toolbar to start the dumper macro. Select the OldNormal.dot from the list and click OK. The macro will create another document containing a table of the AutoText entries it found in the old template, and it will open the Save As dialog. Save the document somewhere that you can find it. You can close both documents now. Go to File New and base a new document on AutotextLoader.dot. Click the button on the floating toolbar to start the loader macro. Browse to the document you saved before. Select the Normal.dot template to receive the entries (it's the default). Click OK. You should now have all the old AutoText entries in the new Normal.dot template. -- 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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Thanks for the great intervention templates. Everything transferred now,
except that in my replaced normal.dot several of the entries have HUGE blocks (that look like they might be alphabet letters) preceeding the autotext insert. Some of these blocks, in from of the text, are 200+ pages. Is there a way to format the entries from one of the steps, that I might have overlooked? "Jay Freedman" wrote: Kris - Idaho wrote: I just located my 'missing' Normal.dot in user\application data\Microsoft\templates, after cleaning up Word 2002. I can see it 2,929 KB as a Word Backup Document but I don't know how to restore it as my normal.doc Autotext. Anyone out there who can help? I will be eternally grateful. . . Download the AutotextDumper and AutotextLoader templates from http://jay-freedman.info. Unzip both of them into your Templates folder. Rename the Normal.dot backup file to something like OldNormal.dot (the first part can be anything that isn't already in use, but the extension must be ..dot). In Word, go to File New and base a new document on AutotextDumper.dot. Click the button on the floating toolbar to start the dumper macro. Select the OldNormal.dot from the list and click OK. The macro will create another document containing a table of the AutoText entries it found in the old template, and it will open the Save As dialog. Save the document somewhere that you can find it. You can close both documents now. Go to File New and base a new document on AutotextLoader.dot. Click the button on the floating toolbar to start the loader macro. Browse to the document you saved before. Select the Normal.dot template to receive the entries (it's the default). Click OK. You should now have all the old AutoText entries in the new Normal.dot template. -- 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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Considering that you had some kind of problem that caused you to "clean up"
Word 2002 (whatever that means), I suspect your old Normal.dot template contained some corruption (http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm). That may now be showing up in the AutoText entries being transferred to the new template. Look at those entries in the document that was created by AutoTextDumper. If there's anything present that doesn't belong there, delete it. Note that this is just an ordinary document -- even though the text in it came from AutoText and will later be put into AutoText, at this point it's just text and you can do anything to it that you need to. Then with Word closed, delete the current copy of Normal.dot and restart Word to build a new one. Now rerun the AutoTextLoader macro and see whether the blocks are gone from the AutoText entries. Kris - Idaho wrote: Thanks for the great intervention templates. Everything transferred now, except that in my replaced normal.dot several of the entries have HUGE blocks (that look like they might be alphabet letters) preceeding the autotext insert. Some of these blocks, in from of the text, are 200+ pages. Is there a way to format the entries from one of the steps, that I might have overlooked? "Jay Freedman" wrote: Kris - Idaho wrote: I just located my 'missing' Normal.dot in user\application data\Microsoft\templates, after cleaning up Word 2002. I can see it 2,929 KB as a Word Backup Document but I don't know how to restore it as my normal.doc Autotext. Anyone out there who can help? I will be eternally grateful. . . Download the AutotextDumper and AutotextLoader templates from http://jay-freedman.info. Unzip both of them into your Templates folder. Rename the Normal.dot backup file to something like OldNormal.dot (the first part can be anything that isn't already in use, but the extension must be ..dot). In Word, go to File New and base a new document on AutotextDumper.dot. Click the button on the floating toolbar to start the dumper macro. Select the OldNormal.dot from the list and click OK. The macro will create another document containing a table of the AutoText entries it found in the old template, and it will open the Save As dialog. Save the document somewhere that you can find it. You can close both documents now. Go to File New and base a new document on AutotextLoader.dot. Click the button on the floating toolbar to start the loader macro. Browse to the document you saved before. Select the Normal.dot template to receive the entries (it's the default). Click OK. You should now have all the old AutoText entries in the new Normal.dot template. -- 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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Yes, you truly are the "Most Valuable Professional". By returning to the
AutoTextDumper I was able to reformat the typeface. It was being converted from 12 pt to 1638 pt size - - i.e. the large blocks in front of the actual insert. I really appreciate your help - thanks, kris : ) "Jay Freedman" wrote: Considering that you had some kind of problem that caused you to "clean up" Word 2002 (whatever that means), I suspect your old Normal.dot template contained some corruption (http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm). That may now be showing up in the AutoText entries being transferred to the new template. Look at those entries in the document that was created by AutoTextDumper. If there's anything present that doesn't belong there, delete it. Note that this is just an ordinary document -- even though the text in it came from AutoText and will later be put into AutoText, at this point it's just text and you can do anything to it that you need to. Then with Word closed, delete the current copy of Normal.dot and restart Word to build a new one. Now rerun the AutoTextLoader macro and see whether the blocks are gone from the AutoText entries. Kris - Idaho wrote: Thanks for the great intervention templates. Everything transferred now, except that in my replaced normal.dot several of the entries have HUGE blocks (that look like they might be alphabet letters) preceeding the autotext insert. Some of these blocks, in from of the text, are 200+ pages. Is there a way to format the entries from one of the steps, that I might have overlooked? "Jay Freedman" wrote: Kris - Idaho wrote: I just located my 'missing' Normal.dot in user\application data\Microsoft\templates, after cleaning up Word 2002. I can see it 2,929 KB as a Word Backup Document but I don't know how to restore it as my normal.doc Autotext. Anyone out there who can help? I will be eternally grateful. . . Download the AutotextDumper and AutotextLoader templates from http://jay-freedman.info. Unzip both of them into your Templates folder. Rename the Normal.dot backup file to something like OldNormal.dot (the first part can be anything that isn't already in use, but the extension must be ..dot). In Word, go to File New and base a new document on AutotextDumper.dot. Click the button on the floating toolbar to start the dumper macro. Select the OldNormal.dot from the list and click OK. The macro will create another document containing a table of the AutoText entries it found in the old template, and it will open the Save As dialog. Save the document somewhere that you can find it. You can close both documents now. Go to File New and base a new document on AutotextLoader.dot. Click the button on the floating toolbar to start the loader macro. Browse to the document you saved before. Select the Normal.dot template to receive the entries (it's the default). Click OK. You should now have all the old AutoText entries in the new Normal.dot template. -- 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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Glad it worked for you!
Kris - Idaho wrote: Yes, you truly are the "Most Valuable Professional". By returning to the AutoTextDumper I was able to reformat the typeface. It was being converted from 12 pt to 1638 pt size - - i.e. the large blocks in front of the actual insert. I really appreciate your help - thanks, kris : ) "Jay Freedman" wrote: Considering that you had some kind of problem that caused you to "clean up" Word 2002 (whatever that means), I suspect your old Normal.dot template contained some corruption (http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm). That may now be showing up in the AutoText entries being transferred to the new template. Look at those entries in the document that was created by AutoTextDumper. If there's anything present that doesn't belong there, delete it. Note that this is just an ordinary document -- even though the text in it came from AutoText and will later be put into AutoText, at this point it's just text and you can do anything to it that you need to. Then with Word closed, delete the current copy of Normal.dot and restart Word to build a new one. Now rerun the AutoTextLoader macro and see whether the blocks are gone from the AutoText entries. Kris - Idaho wrote: Thanks for the great intervention templates. Everything transferred now, except that in my replaced normal.dot several of the entries have HUGE blocks (that look like they might be alphabet letters) preceeding the autotext insert. Some of these blocks, in from of the text, are 200+ pages. Is there a way to format the entries from one of the steps, that I might have overlooked? "Jay Freedman" wrote: Kris - Idaho wrote: I just located my 'missing' Normal.dot in user\application data\Microsoft\templates, after cleaning up Word 2002. I can see it 2,929 KB as a Word Backup Document but I don't know how to restore it as my normal.doc Autotext. Anyone out there who can help? I will be eternally grateful. . . Download the AutotextDumper and AutotextLoader templates from http://jay-freedman.info. Unzip both of them into your Templates folder. Rename the Normal.dot backup file to something like OldNormal.dot (the first part can be anything that isn't already in use, but the extension must be ..dot). In Word, go to File New and base a new document on AutotextDumper.dot. Click the button on the floating toolbar to start the dumper macro. Select the OldNormal.dot from the list and click OK. The macro will create another document containing a table of the AutoText entries it found in the old template, and it will open the Save As dialog. Save the document somewhere that you can find it. You can close both documents now. Go to File New and base a new document on AutotextLoader.dot. Click the button on the floating toolbar to start the loader macro. Browse to the document you saved before. Select the Normal.dot template to receive the entries (it's the default). Click OK. You should now have all the old AutoText entries in the new Normal.dot template. -- 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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