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Word 2007 - Insert AutoText
I want to say thanks in advance to all of the MVP's out there. Thank you for
all of your assistance. I guess what I'm looking for is confirmation of what I perceive to be the new situation in Word 2007. In Word 2003, when I was in a Header and Footer field in a word document, I could click on "Insert AutoText" and see the following: -Page- Author, Page #, Date Confidential, Page #, Date Created by Created on Filename Filename and path Last printed Last saved by Page X of Y However, now that I'm a header or footer in Word 2007, I do not see those options. It looks like I have to build out all of the fields manually using filed codes, which I access from Quick Parts. This looks like a step back to me, since many of my users will not understand the code options. I did notice that Beth Melton had posted a template to cover a few of these things. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/te...02951033.aspx? pid=CT101446261033 In short, am I missing something? Is there quick way to get all of the old items back into the Quick Parts? Thanks, Alex |
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No, you aren't missing anything. There are some built-in header and footer
building blocks, accessible for example via Insert tab | Header (and Footer, respectively), but none of them seems to include anything similar to the old AutoText entries of Word 97-2003. It should be fairly easy to recreate them though. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Alex Zimmerhaven" wrote: I want to say thanks in advance to all of the MVP's out there. Thank you for all of your assistance. I guess what I'm looking for is confirmation of what I perceive to be the new situation in Word 2007. In Word 2003, when I was in a Header and Footer field in a word document, I could click on "Insert AutoText" and see the following: -Page- Author, Page #, Date Confidential, Page #, Date Created by Created on Filename Filename and path Last printed Last saved by Page X of Y However, now that I'm a header or footer in Word 2007, I do not see those options. It looks like I have to build out all of the fields manually using filed codes, which I access from Quick Parts. This looks like a step back to me, since many of my users will not understand the code options. I did notice that Beth Melton had posted a template to cover a few of these things. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/te...02951033.aspx? pid=CT101446261033 In short, am I missing something? Is there quick way to get all of the old items back into the Quick Parts? Thanks, Alex |
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Hi Alex,
If you take a copy of a default Normal.dot from an older system and place it in the Word 2007 Document Building Blocks folder the old entries should be available, although they will no longer be grouped by Word document styles as they were before. You can check Insert=Quick Parts=Building Block Organizer once Word is restarted after putting that template in place. To avoid confusion between that template and your usual 'Normal' template you might want to rename the template copy to something like 2003AutoText.dot before putting it in the Building Block folder. MS left the older entries out, in part, because they, along with the layouts of the older Letter, Fax and Newsletter Wizards (among others) were considered dated in appearance, as far as their '21st Century Documents' marketing for Office 2007. ============== "Alex Zimmerhaven" wrote in message ... I want to say thanks in advance to all of the MVP's out there. Thank you for all of your assistance. I guess what I'm looking for is confirmation of what I perceive to be the new situation in Word 2007. In Word 2003, when I was in a Header and Footer field in a word document, I could click on "Insert AutoText" and see the following: -Page- Author, Page #, Date Confidential, Page #, Date Created by Created on Filename Filename and path Last printed Last saved by Page X of Y However, now that I'm a header or footer in Word 2007, I do not see those options. It looks like I have to build out all of the fields manually using filed codes, which I access from Quick Parts. This looks like a step back to me, since many of my users will not understand the code options. I did notice that Beth Melton had posted a template to cover a few of these things. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/te...002951033.aspx In short, am I missing something? Is there quick way to get all of the old items back into the Quick Parts? Thanks, Alex -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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Bob/Stefan,
Thank you so much for your responses! They were extremely helpful! In the end, here's what I did to solve the issue. 1) I created a new file - "autotext word 2003.dotx" (no quotes) - this file contained the autotext entries that are missing in Word 2007. 2) Then I created a batch file which would copy the file from our network to the following location: "C:\Documents and Settings\%Username%\Application Data\Microsoft\Document Building Blocks\1033\autotext word 2003.dotx" By doing this, the file is moved to the local profile. Now when the user starts word and then opens the Building Blocks organizer, they will see it there. Trying to place these autotext options under Header and Footer was too daunting. Thank you both for confirming that this Autotext is not contained in Word 2007! That was extremely helpful. I really appreciate you both and all of the MVP's. You guys are lifesavers! Without you guys I would have never figured this out. Thanks, -Alex "Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote: Hi Alex, If you take a copy of a default Normal.dot from an older system and place it in the Word 2007 Document Building Blocks folder the old entries should be available, although they will no longer be grouped by Word document styles as they were before. You can check Insert=Quick Parts=Building Block Organizer once Word is restarted after putting that template in place. To avoid confusion between that template and your usual 'Normal' template you might want to rename the template copy to something like 2003AutoText.dot before putting it in the Building Block folder. MS left the older entries out, in part, because they, along with the layouts of the older Letter, Fax and Newsletter Wizards (among others) were considered dated in appearance, as far as their '21st Century Documents' marketing for Office 2007. ============== "Alex Zimmerhaven" wrote in message ... I want to say thanks in advance to all of the MVP's out there. Thank you for all of your assistance. I guess what I'm looking for is confirmation of what I perceive to be the new situation in Word 2007. In Word 2003, when I was in a Header and Footer field in a word document, I could click on "Insert AutoText" and see the following: -Page- Author, Page #, Date Confidential, Page #, Date Created by Created on Filename Filename and path Last printed Last saved by Page X of Y However, now that I'm a header or footer in Word 2007, I do not see those options. It looks like I have to build out all of the fields manually using filed codes, which I access from Quick Parts. This looks like a step back to me, since many of my users will not understand the code options. I did notice that Beth Melton had posted a template to cover a few of these things. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/te...002951033.aspx In short, am I missing something? Is there quick way to get all of the old items back into the Quick Parts? Thanks, Alex -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* |
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