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QuickParts not a substitute for AutocorrectAutotext
RECAP OF WHAT WE POSTED BACK ON 052906 Situation in the past: For Word/Outlook 2003, we would go ToolsAutocorrectAutotext to find our stored text information. For 2007, can't find it or our data of a lot of stored information? Explanation of what we did: We used AutocorrectAutotext as a method to store hundreds paragraphs of text to be used in the body of a response message. These paragraphs, some including images, are use to respond to customers addressing a specific topic (ie responding to a person asking a question we have answered in detail before). For example, someone may ask about a diamond's clarity and what does it mean? So we had a page of text (in AutocorrectAutotext ) explaining that topic in detail. To type this text every time for every response, would be time consuming and not very cost effective. So we would just go to "AutocorrectAutotext" pick the topic titled "Diamond's clarity detailed explanation with images 042705rev" The 042705 being the date we last revised the response text. We then inserted it into the body of the message. Questions for the difference between 2003 and 2007: I can't find our AutocorrectAutotext entries on Outlook 2007 or Word 2007 anywhere (which I think were part of the normal.dot file in Word 2003). Please don't tell us this is a feature that just went away without warning? Or instructions as to how to migrate it? If so we just lost hundreds of hours of text and revisions. My guess is we are not the only ones using the 2003 Word/Outlook AutocorrectAutotext function this way. Help: Is there a way to migrate all our AutocorrectAutotext 2003 entries, or is that hundreds of hours keying over the past several years lost forever? AS OF TODAY 060406 Much of the feedback we received in this forum, suggested using the new 2007 QuickParts as a replacement. So we did just that! And after doing that................ We really want to suggest to Microsoft they reconsider including the AutocorrectAutotext functionality into 2007. -Bottom line, 2007 QuickParts does not even come close to the ease and functionality of Word/Outlook 2003 (and ealier versions) AutocorrectAutotext. -2007 QuickParts is not easy to work with. -We painfully manually keyed in/added 60 of our 2003 AutocorrectAutotext entries. -Over the past 5 days, we used the 2007 QuickParts function in our e-commerce business e-mail customer correspondence to access the 60 stored entries. So we used it hands-on! -Accessing each entry in 2007 QuickParts is nowhere near the ease of 2003 Word/Outlook AutocorrectAutotext! In fact 2007 QuickParts is very very very very difficult to use. -The hardest thing using 2007 QuickParts is accessing each individual entry of the 60 QuickParts we stored . -In 2003 AutocorrectAutotext, it was so very easy to access any one of our individual entries of stored text. Just start keying the first words, and it filled in all the rest (or you could go retrieve it easily via a button). -2007 QuickParts is cumbersome and extremely awkward to use. SUGGESTIONS [1] Please Microsoft, bring back the function of 2003 AutocorrectAutotext. [2] Build some conversion function to bring into 2007 all the 2003 AutocorrectAutotext entries [3] OR build some tool to be able to quickly access the individual entries stored in 2007 QuickParts. It will take us hours to repopulate all the Autotext entries manually, but at least we will not lose the entire function that 2003 AutocorrectAutotext provided small business and e-commerce businesses. Thank you for listening! Regards, Greg Gates www.ringdesigner.com -- Greg Gates Co founder www.ringdesigner.com www.ringdesigner.com ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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QuickParts not a substitute for AutocorrectAutotext
G'Day Greg,
You're damn right it's not. Furthermore there is no reference/help anywhere on Microsoft.com!! Let's hope this means that it is not yet set in concrete. What seems to be missing is the "Show AutoComplete suggestions" facility. -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "Greg Gates" greg AT ringdesigner.com wrote in message ... QuickParts not a substitute for AutocorrectAutotext RECAP OF WHAT WE POSTED BACK ON 052906 Situation in the past: For Word/Outlook 2003, we would go ToolsAutocorrectAutotext to find our stored text information. For 2007, can't find it or our data of a lot of stored information? Explanation of what we did: We used AutocorrectAutotext as a method to store hundreds paragraphs of text to be used in the body of a response message. These paragraphs, some including images, are use to respond to customers addressing a specific topic (ie responding to a person asking a question we have answered in detail before). For example, someone may ask about a diamond's clarity and what does it mean? So we had a page of text (in AutocorrectAutotext ) explaining that topic in detail. To type this text every time for every response, would be time consuming and not very cost effective. So we would just go to "AutocorrectAutotext" pick the topic titled "Diamond's clarity detailed explanation with images 042705rev" The 042705 being the date we last revised the response text. We then inserted it into the body of the message. Questions for the difference between 2003 and 2007: I can't find our AutocorrectAutotext entries on Outlook 2007 or Word 2007 anywhere (which I think were part of the normal.dot file in Word 2003). Please don't tell us this is a feature that just went away without warning? Or instructions as to how to migrate it? If so we just lost hundreds of hours of text and revisions. My guess is we are not the only ones using the 2003 Word/Outlook AutocorrectAutotext function this way. Help: Is there a way to migrate all our AutocorrectAutotext 2003 entries, or is that hundreds of hours keying over the past several years lost forever? AS OF TODAY 060406 Much of the feedback we received in this forum, suggested using the new 2007 QuickParts as a replacement. So we did just that! And after doing that................ We really want to suggest to Microsoft they reconsider including the AutocorrectAutotext functionality into 2007. -Bottom line, 2007 QuickParts does not even come close to the ease and functionality of Word/Outlook 2003 (and ealier versions) AutocorrectAutotext. -2007 QuickParts is not easy to work with. -We painfully manually keyed in/added 60 of our 2003 AutocorrectAutotext entries. -Over the past 5 days, we used the 2007 QuickParts function in our e-commerce business e-mail customer correspondence to access the 60 stored entries. So we used it hands-on! -Accessing each entry in 2007 QuickParts is nowhere near the ease of 2003 Word/Outlook AutocorrectAutotext! In fact 2007 QuickParts is very very very very difficult to use. -The hardest thing using 2007 QuickParts is accessing each individual entry of the 60 QuickParts we stored . -In 2003 AutocorrectAutotext, it was so very easy to access any one of our individual entries of stored text. Just start keying the first words, and it filled in all the rest (or you could go retrieve it easily via a button). -2007 QuickParts is cumbersome and extremely awkward to use. SUGGESTIONS [1] Please Microsoft, bring back the function of 2003 AutocorrectAutotext. [2] Build some conversion function to bring into 2007 all the 2003 AutocorrectAutotext entries [3] OR build some tool to be able to quickly access the individual entries stored in 2007 QuickParts. It will take us hours to repopulate all the Autotext entries manually, but at least we will not lose the entire function that 2003 AutocorrectAutotext provided small business and e-commerce businesses. Thank you for listening! Regards, Greg Gates www.ringdesigner.com -- Greg Gates Co founder www.ringdesigner.com www.ringdesigner.com ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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FWIW, AutoCorrect in Word 2007 should function exactly the same as in
previous versions, so if you can migrate entries there, you should be able to use them as before. Existing AutoText should also work as before except that (a) AutoComplete no longer works (a major mistake IMO) and (b) I understand that AT entries are no longer categorized by style (another major blunder, as it removes the ability to create specific "collections" of AT entries by creating a style). -- 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. "Greg Gates" greg AT ringdesigner.com wrote in message ... QuickParts not a substitute for AutocorrectAutotext RECAP OF WHAT WE POSTED BACK ON 052906 Situation in the past: For Word/Outlook 2003, we would go ToolsAutocorrectAutotext to find our stored text information. For 2007, can't find it or our data of a lot of stored information? Explanation of what we did: We used AutocorrectAutotext as a method to store hundreds paragraphs of text to be used in the body of a response message. These paragraphs, some including images, are use to respond to customers addressing a specific topic (ie responding to a person asking a question we have answered in detail before). For example, someone may ask about a diamond's clarity and what does it mean? So we had a page of text (in AutocorrectAutotext ) explaining that topic in detail. To type this text every time for every response, would be time consuming and not very cost effective. So we would just go to "AutocorrectAutotext" pick the topic titled "Diamond's clarity detailed explanation with images 042705rev" The 042705 being the date we last revised the response text. We then inserted it into the body of the message. Questions for the difference between 2003 and 2007: I can't find our AutocorrectAutotext entries on Outlook 2007 or Word 2007 anywhere (which I think were part of the normal.dot file in Word 2003). Please don't tell us this is a feature that just went away without warning? Or instructions as to how to migrate it? If so we just lost hundreds of hours of text and revisions. My guess is we are not the only ones using the 2003 Word/Outlook AutocorrectAutotext function this way. Help: Is there a way to migrate all our AutocorrectAutotext 2003 entries, or is that hundreds of hours keying over the past several years lost forever? AS OF TODAY 060406 Much of the feedback we received in this forum, suggested using the new 2007 QuickParts as a replacement. So we did just that! And after doing that................ We really want to suggest to Microsoft they reconsider including the AutocorrectAutotext functionality into 2007. -Bottom line, 2007 QuickParts does not even come close to the ease and functionality of Word/Outlook 2003 (and ealier versions) AutocorrectAutotext. -2007 QuickParts is not easy to work with. -We painfully manually keyed in/added 60 of our 2003 AutocorrectAutotext entries. -Over the past 5 days, we used the 2007 QuickParts function in our e-commerce business e-mail customer correspondence to access the 60 stored entries. So we used it hands-on! -Accessing each entry in 2007 QuickParts is nowhere near the ease of 2003 Word/Outlook AutocorrectAutotext! In fact 2007 QuickParts is very very very very difficult to use. -The hardest thing using 2007 QuickParts is accessing each individual entry of the 60 QuickParts we stored . -In 2003 AutocorrectAutotext, it was so very easy to access any one of our individual entries of stored text. Just start keying the first words, and it filled in all the rest (or you could go retrieve it easily via a button). -2007 QuickParts is cumbersome and extremely awkward to use. SUGGESTIONS [1] Please Microsoft, bring back the function of 2003 AutocorrectAutotext. [2] Build some conversion function to bring into 2007 all the 2003 AutocorrectAutotext entries [3] OR build some tool to be able to quickly access the individual entries stored in 2007 QuickParts. It will take us hours to repopulate all the Autotext entries manually, but at least we will not lose the entire function that 2003 AutocorrectAutotext provided small business and e-commerce businesses. Thank you for listening! Regards, Greg Gates www.ringdesigner.com -- Greg Gates Co founder www.ringdesigner.com www.ringdesigner.com ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
FWIW, AutoCorrect in Word 2007 should function exactly the same as in previous versions, so if you can migrate entries there, you should be able to use them as before. Existing AutoText should also work as before except that (a) AutoComplete no longer works (a major mistake IMO) and (b) I understand that AT entries are no longer categorized by style (another major blunder, as it removes the ability to create specific "collections" of AT entries by creating a style). Hi, I'm cross-posting a message sent to the Outlook newsgroup, maybe you can help here as Autotext is mainly a Word featu --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I would like to offer my experience in this matter. I too rely on hundreds of Autotext entries for quick and easy writing in Outlook and Word (in my case Office 2000). When trying out the Office 2007 beta 2, I was shocked to find out that Autotext had seemingly disappeared. However, I managed to recover Autotext entries in Word 2007. This is what I did: Office ButtonWord OptionsAdd-insin the drop-down list under "Manage:"select "Templates" then "Go". Select "Add" under "Global Templates and add-ins", then navigate to your Word 2003 Normal.dot and select it. This will restore all your autotext entries in Word 2007, you can then find them under Quick PartsBuilding Blocks Organiser. You can enter the autotext entries in the normal way by typing in the first few letters then F3. HOWEVER: 1. Word does not save these settings, you must reload the old Normal.dot template every time you restart Word 2007. 2. I have not found a way of achieving the same result in Outlook 2007. It seems that Outlook and Word are no longer connected by Wordmail as they were in Office 2000/2003. The check box that said "use Word to compose e-mail" is no longer there in Outlook 2007. I certainly hope that Microsoft will be able to import Autotext entries in a simple manner to both Word and Outlook 2007 in the final version. It is inconceivable that such basic functionality should have been ignored. Best regards Daniele Squarci |
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Hi Daniele,
You are correct that Outlook no longer uses Word as its email editor. Outlook is, in that regard, basically self contained. It uses a .DLL set that is a cloned or 'mini-Word' version and stores building blocks (including Quickparts and Autotext and 13 other Gallery [classifications] of blocks) in Normalemail.dotm as its default, Word in 'Building Blocks.dotm' as its default. I was working on more information on these features to post here, but I'll not be able to get back to it until after work today . Hopefully the Outlook folks will have replied before then. =========== wrote in message oups.com... Hi, I'm cross-posting a message sent to the Outlook newsgroup, maybe you can help here as Autotext is mainly a Word featu --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I would like to offer my experience in this matter. I too rely on hundreds of Autotext entries for quick and easy writing in Outlook and Word (in my case Office 2000). When trying out the Office 2007 beta 2, I was shocked to find out that Autotext had seemingly disappeared. However, I managed to recover Autotext entries in Word 2007. This is what I did: Office ButtonWord OptionsAdd-insin the drop-down list under "Manage:"select "Templates" then "Go". Select "Add" under "Global Templates and add-ins", then navigate to your Word 2003 Normal.dot and select it. This will restore all your autotext entries in Word 2007, you can then find them under Quick PartsBuilding Blocks Organiser. You can enter the autotext entries in the normal way by typing in the first few letters then F3. HOWEVER: 1. Word does not save these settings, you must reload the old Normal.dot template every time you restart Word 2007. 2. I have not found a way of achieving the same result in Outlook 2007. It seems that Outlook and Word are no longer connected by Wordmail as they were in Office 2000/2003. The check box that said "use Word to compose e-mail" is no longer there in Outlook 2007. I certainly hope that Microsoft will be able to import Autotext entries in a simple manner to both Word and Outlook 2007 in the final version. It is inconceivable that such basic functionality should have been ignored. Best regards Daniele Squarci -- I hope this helped you, Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office system products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends LINKS for the 2007 Office System 1. Read about it, try it, or watch the movie the 2007 Microsoft Office system iinfo is at http://microsoft.com/office/preview 2. Already have 2007 Office System Beta 2? Send Microsoft your feedback (with pictures) http://sas.office.microsoft.com/ 3. Use the 2007 OfficeOnline website without Office2007 a. Install the ActiveX access control http://office.microsoft.com/search/r...XT101650581033 b. then visit http://officebeta.iponet.net |
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Hi Bob,
I'm not sure what the reasoning was to drop Word as Outlook's mail editor! I came to rely on Wordmail to access all the autotext entries and proofing tools, and if these are no longer available in Outlook 2007, then it's a big letdown! As a workaround, have you any idea how to permanently import all my Autotext entries from Word 2000 normal.dot into the 2007 BuildingBlocks.dotm? As mentioned, I could see these entries when I load the 2000 normal.dot as a global template, but this change does not "stick". And the next step: how to export a Word BuildingBlocks.dotm into Outlook's Normalemail.dotm? Thanks, Daniele Bob Buckland ?:-) (At Beautiful Downtown) wrote: Hi Daniele, You are correct that Outlook no longer uses Word as its email editor. Outlook is, in that regard, basically self contained. It uses a .DLL set that is a cloned or 'mini-Word' version and stores building blocks (including Quickparts and Autotext and 13 other Gallery [classifications] of blocks) in Normalemail.dotm as its default, Word in 'Building Blocks.dotm' as its default. I was working on more information on these features to post here, but I'll not be able to get back to it until after work today . Hopefully the Outlook folks will have replied before then. |
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Did you assign the entries to the AutoText Gallery or Quick Parts
gallery? If you added them to the AutoText gallery then you can add the AutoText command to the QAT which provides access to the AutoText gallery and the ability to create new AutoText entries. To do so: right-click the Ribbon and select "Customize Quick Access Toolbar". In the "Commands not in the Ribbon", locate "AutoText" and add it to your QAT. Although the AutoComplete tips are no longer available, you can type the first few letters and press F3 to insert the entry or add the "Insert AutoText" command to the QAT - it's in the "Commands not in the Ribbon" as well. Granted this isn't the perfect solution, but it's a little better than opening the Building Blocks Gallery each time. While I'd love to have the old methods back, given the boundaries of the new UI, I'd say what they need to do is modify the current AutoText command and organize the AutoText entries in to submenus according to the Category (previously the Style) - similar to the way it used to be. You can also still use Word for email. The "Email" command can also be found in the "Commands not in the Ribbon" category for QAT customization. As in previous versions, this will toggle the email headers and allow you to send email using Word. To migrate your AutoCorrect entries to Word 2007, use the macro found AutoCorrect.dot which can be downloaded from: http://word.mvps.org/faqs/Customizat...utocorrect.htm. Open the template in Word 2003 and run the Backup procedure which will create a document of your AutoCorrect entries. Then open AutoCorrect.dot in Word 2007 and run the Restore procedure. As for your AutoText entries, you might try replacing Normal.dotm (or Normal.dotx) with your old Normal.dot. Then open Normal.dot in Word, open the Microsoft Office Button, and click Upgrade. Then save it in the new file format. They also need to return the functionality to import AutoText entries in Word 2007. The Organizer is still around but it no longer has the AutoText tab. So...it looks like to primary suggestions: - Add organization to AutoText entries - Provide the ability to import AutoText entries. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Greg Gates" greg AT ringdesigner.com wrote in message ... QuickParts not a substitute for AutocorrectAutotext RECAP OF WHAT WE POSTED BACK ON 052906 Situation in the past: For Word/Outlook 2003, we would go ToolsAutocorrectAutotext to find our stored text information. For 2007, can't find it or our data of a lot of stored information? Explanation of what we did: We used AutocorrectAutotext as a method to store hundreds paragraphs of text to be used in the body of a response message. These paragraphs, some including images, are use to respond to customers addressing a specific topic (ie responding to a person asking a question we have answered in detail before). For example, someone may ask about a diamond's clarity and what does it mean? So we had a page of text (in AutocorrectAutotext ) explaining that topic in detail. To type this text every time for every response, would be time consuming and not very cost effective. So we would just go to "AutocorrectAutotext" pick the topic titled "Diamond's clarity detailed explanation with images 042705rev" The 042705 being the date we last revised the response text. We then inserted it into the body of the message. Questions for the difference between 2003 and 2007: I can't find our AutocorrectAutotext entries on Outlook 2007 or Word 2007 anywhere (which I think were part of the normal.dot file in Word 2003). Please don't tell us this is a feature that just went away without warning? Or instructions as to how to migrate it? If so we just lost hundreds of hours of text and revisions. My guess is we are not the only ones using the 2003 Word/Outlook AutocorrectAutotext function this way. Help: Is there a way to migrate all our AutocorrectAutotext 2003 entries, or is that hundreds of hours keying over the past several years lost forever? AS OF TODAY 060406 Much of the feedback we received in this forum, suggested using the new 2007 QuickParts as a replacement. So we did just that! And after doing that................ We really want to suggest to Microsoft they reconsider including the AutocorrectAutotext functionality into 2007. -Bottom line, 2007 QuickParts does not even come close to the ease and functionality of Word/Outlook 2003 (and ealier versions) AutocorrectAutotext. -2007 QuickParts is not easy to work with. -We painfully manually keyed in/added 60 of our 2003 AutocorrectAutotext entries. -Over the past 5 days, we used the 2007 QuickParts function in our e-commerce business e-mail customer correspondence to access the 60 stored entries. So we used it hands-on! -Accessing each entry in 2007 QuickParts is nowhere near the ease of 2003 Word/Outlook AutocorrectAutotext! In fact 2007 QuickParts is very very very very difficult to use. -The hardest thing using 2007 QuickParts is accessing each individual entry of the 60 QuickParts we stored . -In 2003 AutocorrectAutotext, it was so very easy to access any one of our individual entries of stored text. Just start keying the first words, and it filled in all the rest (or you could go retrieve it easily via a button). -2007 QuickParts is cumbersome and extremely awkward to use. SUGGESTIONS [1] Please Microsoft, bring back the function of 2003 AutocorrectAutotext. [2] Build some conversion function to bring into 2007 all the 2003 AutocorrectAutotext entries [3] OR build some tool to be able to quickly access the individual entries stored in 2007 QuickParts. It will take us hours to repopulate all the Autotext entries manually, but at least we will not lose the entire function that 2003 AutocorrectAutotext provided small business and e-commerce businesses. Thank you for listening! Regards, Greg Gates www.ringdesigner.com -- Greg Gates Co founder www.ringdesigner.com www.ringdesigner.com ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Hi Beth,
This is a High Quality response - thank you. I, for one, would like to know More... ....is there information we don't know about?? -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "Beth Melton" wrote in message ... Did you assign the entries to the AutoText Gallery or Quick Parts gallery? If you added them to the AutoText gallery then you can add the AutoText command to the QAT which provides access to the AutoText gallery and the ability to create new AutoText entries. To do so: right-click the Ribbon and select "Customize Quick Access Toolbar". In the "Commands not in the Ribbon", locate "AutoText" and add it to your QAT. Although the AutoComplete tips are no longer available, you can type the first few letters and press F3 to insert the entry or add the "Insert AutoText" command to the QAT - it's in the "Commands not in the Ribbon" as well. Granted this isn't the perfect solution, but it's a little better than opening the Building Blocks Gallery each time. While I'd love to have the old methods back, given the boundaries of the new UI, I'd say what they need to do is modify the current AutoText command and organize the AutoText entries in to submenus according to the Category (previously the Style) - similar to the way it used to be. You can also still use Word for email. The "Email" command can also be found in the "Commands not in the Ribbon" category for QAT customization. As in previous versions, this will toggle the email headers and allow you to send email using Word. To migrate your AutoCorrect entries to Word 2007, use the macro found AutoCorrect.dot which can be downloaded from: http://word.mvps.org/faqs/Customizat...utocorrect.htm. Open the template in Word 2003 and run the Backup procedure which will create a document of your AutoCorrect entries. Then open AutoCorrect.dot in Word 2007 and run the Restore procedure. As for your AutoText entries, you might try replacing Normal.dotm (or Normal.dotx) with your old Normal.dot. Then open Normal.dot in Word, open the Microsoft Office Button, and click Upgrade. Then save it in the new file format. They also need to return the functionality to import AutoText entries in Word 2007. The Organizer is still around but it no longer has the AutoText tab. So...it looks like to primary suggestions: - Add organization to AutoText entries - Provide the ability to import AutoText entries. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Greg Gates" greg AT ringdesigner.com wrote in message ... QuickParts not a substitute for AutocorrectAutotext RECAP OF WHAT WE POSTED BACK ON 052906 Situation in the past: For Word/Outlook 2003, we would go ToolsAutocorrectAutotext to find our stored text information. For 2007, can't find it or our data of a lot of stored information? Explanation of what we did: We used AutocorrectAutotext as a method to store hundreds paragraphs of text to be used in the body of a response message. These paragraphs, some including images, are use to respond to customers addressing a specific topic (ie responding to a person asking a question we have answered in detail before). For example, someone may ask about a diamond's clarity and what does it mean? So we had a page of text (in AutocorrectAutotext ) explaining that topic in detail. To type this text every time for every response, would be time consuming and not very cost effective. So we would just go to "AutocorrectAutotext" pick the topic titled "Diamond's clarity detailed explanation with images 042705rev" The 042705 being the date we last revised the response text. We then inserted it into the body of the message. Questions for the difference between 2003 and 2007: I can't find our AutocorrectAutotext entries on Outlook 2007 or Word 2007 anywhere (which I think were part of the normal.dot file in Word 2003). Please don't tell us this is a feature that just went away without warning? Or instructions as to how to migrate it? If so we just lost hundreds of hours of text and revisions. My guess is we are not the only ones using the 2003 Word/Outlook AutocorrectAutotext function this way. Help: Is there a way to migrate all our AutocorrectAutotext 2003 entries, or is that hundreds of hours keying over the past several years lost forever? AS OF TODAY 060406 Much of the feedback we received in this forum, suggested using the new 2007 QuickParts as a replacement. So we did just that! And after doing that................ We really want to suggest to Microsoft they reconsider including the AutocorrectAutotext functionality into 2007. -Bottom line, 2007 QuickParts does not even come close to the ease and functionality of Word/Outlook 2003 (and ealier versions) AutocorrectAutotext. -2007 QuickParts is not easy to work with. -We painfully manually keyed in/added 60 of our 2003 AutocorrectAutotext entries. -Over the past 5 days, we used the 2007 QuickParts function in our e-commerce business e-mail customer correspondence to access the 60 stored entries. So we used it hands-on! -Accessing each entry in 2007 QuickParts is nowhere near the ease of 2003 Word/Outlook AutocorrectAutotext! In fact 2007 QuickParts is very very very very difficult to use. -The hardest thing using 2007 QuickParts is accessing each individual entry of the 60 QuickParts we stored . -In 2003 AutocorrectAutotext, it was so very easy to access any one of our individual entries of stored text. Just start keying the first words, and it filled in all the rest (or you could go retrieve it easily via a button). -2007 QuickParts is cumbersome and extremely awkward to use. SUGGESTIONS [1] Please Microsoft, bring back the function of 2003 AutocorrectAutotext. [2] Build some conversion function to bring into 2007 all the 2003 AutocorrectAutotext entries [3] OR build some tool to be able to quickly access the individual entries stored in 2007 QuickParts. It will take us hours to repopulate all the Autotext entries manually, but at least we will not lose the entire function that 2003 AutocorrectAutotext provided small business and e-commerce businesses. Thank you for listening! Regards, Greg Gates www.ringdesigner.com -- Greg Gates Co founder www.ringdesigner.com www.ringdesigner.com ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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...is there information we don't know about??
Nope. We are all still learning here Patrick Schmid -------------- http://pschmid.net _______________________ "Beth Melton" wrote in message ... Did you assign the entries to the AutoText Gallery or Quick Parts gallery? If you added them to the AutoText gallery then you can add the AutoText command to the QAT which provides access to the AutoText gallery and the ability to create new AutoText entries. To do so: right-click the Ribbon and select "Customize Quick Access Toolbar". In the "Commands not in the Ribbon", locate "AutoText" and add it to your QAT. Although the AutoComplete tips are no longer available, you can type the first few letters and press F3 to insert the entry or add the "Insert AutoText" command to the QAT - it's in the "Commands not in the Ribbon" as well. Granted this isn't the perfect solution, but it's a little better than opening the Building Blocks Gallery each time. While I'd love to have the old methods back, given the boundaries of the new UI, I'd say what they need to do is modify the current AutoText command and organize the AutoText entries in to submenus according to the Category (previously the Style) - similar to the way it used to be. You can also still use Word for email. The "Email" command can also be found in the "Commands not in the Ribbon" category for QAT customization. As in previous versions, this will toggle the email headers and allow you to send email using Word. To migrate your AutoCorrect entries to Word 2007, use the macro found AutoCorrect.dot which can be downloaded from: http://word.mvps.org/faqs/Customizat...utocorrect.htm. Open the template in Word 2003 and run the Backup procedure which will create a document of your AutoCorrect entries. Then open AutoCorrect.dot in Word 2007 and run the Restore procedure. As for your AutoText entries, you might try replacing Normal.dotm (or Normal.dotx) with your old Normal.dot. Then open Normal.dot in Word, open the Microsoft Office Button, and click Upgrade. Then save it in the new file format. They also need to return the functionality to import AutoText entries in Word 2007. The Organizer is still around but it no longer has the AutoText tab. So...it looks like to primary suggestions: - Add organization to AutoText entries - Provide the ability to import AutoText entries. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Greg Gates" greg AT ringdesigner.com wrote in message ... QuickParts not a substitute for AutocorrectAutotext RECAP OF WHAT WE POSTED BACK ON 052906 Situation in the past: For Word/Outlook 2003, we would go ToolsAutocorrectAutotext to find our stored text information. For 2007, can't find it or our data of a lot of stored information? Explanation of what we did: We used AutocorrectAutotext as a method to store hundreds paragraphs of text to be used in the body of a response message. These paragraphs, some including images, are use to respond to customers addressing a specific topic (ie responding to a person asking a question we have answered in detail before). For example, someone may ask about a diamond's clarity and what does it mean? So we had a page of text (in AutocorrectAutotext ) explaining that topic in detail. To type this text every time for every response, would be time consuming and not very cost effective. So we would just go to "AutocorrectAutotext" pick the topic titled "Diamond's clarity detailed explanation with images 042705rev" The 042705 being the date we last revised the response text. We then inserted it into the body of the message. Questions for the difference between 2003 and 2007: I can't find our AutocorrectAutotext entries on Outlook 2007 or Word 2007 anywhere (which I think were part of the normal.dot file in Word 2003). Please don't tell us this is a feature that just went away without warning? Or instructions as to how to migrate it? If so we just lost hundreds of hours of text and revisions. My guess is we are not the only ones using the 2003 Word/Outlook AutocorrectAutotext function this way. Help: Is there a way to migrate all our AutocorrectAutotext 2003 entries, or is that hundreds of hours keying over the past several years lost forever? AS OF TODAY 060406 Much of the feedback we received in this forum, suggested using the new 2007 QuickParts as a replacement. So we did just that! And after doing that................ We really want to suggest to Microsoft they reconsider including the AutocorrectAutotext functionality into 2007. -Bottom line, 2007 QuickParts does not even come close to the ease and functionality of Word/Outlook 2003 (and ealier versions) AutocorrectAutotext. -2007 QuickParts is not easy to work with. -We painfully manually keyed in/added 60 of our 2003 AutocorrectAutotext entries. -Over the past 5 days, we used the 2007 QuickParts function in our e-commerce business e-mail customer correspondence to access the 60 stored entries. So we used it hands-on! -Accessing each entry in 2007 QuickParts is nowhere near the ease of 2003 Word/Outlook AutocorrectAutotext! In fact 2007 QuickParts is very very very very difficult to use. -The hardest thing using 2007 QuickParts is accessing each individual entry of the 60 QuickParts we stored . -In 2003 AutocorrectAutotext, it was so very easy to access any one of our individual entries of stored text. Just start keying the first words, and it filled in all the rest (or you could go retrieve it easily via a button). -2007 QuickParts is cumbersome and extremely awkward to use. SUGGESTIONS [1] Please Microsoft, bring back the function of 2003 AutocorrectAutotext. [2] Build some conversion function to bring into 2007 all the 2003 AutocorrectAutotext entries [3] OR build some tool to be able to quickly access the individual entries stored in 2007 QuickParts. It will take us hours to repopulate all the Autotext entries manually, but at least we will not lose the entire function that 2003 AutocorrectAutotext provided small business and e-commerce businesses. Thank you for listening! Regards, Greg Gates www.ringdesigner.com -- Greg Gates Co founder www.ringdesigner.com www.ringdesigner.com ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. 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I'm sure there's a LOT we all still don't know so I want 'More' too.
;-) Are you referring to how Quick Parts and AutoText work or something else? If it's general information you're after, there are a few articles on Office 2007 on this page and they will be updated periodically: http://www.microsoft.com/office/prev...e_archive.mspx Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Pat Garard" apgarard-bigpond:net:au wrote in message ... Hi Beth, This is a High Quality response - thank you. I, for one, would like to know More... ...is there information we don't know about?? -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "Beth Melton" wrote in message ... Did you assign the entries to the AutoText Gallery or Quick Parts gallery? If you added them to the AutoText gallery then you can add the AutoText command to the QAT which provides access to the AutoText gallery and the ability to create new AutoText entries. To do so: right-click the Ribbon and select "Customize Quick Access Toolbar". In the "Commands not in the Ribbon", locate "AutoText" and add it to your QAT. Although the AutoComplete tips are no longer available, you can type the first few letters and press F3 to insert the entry or add the "Insert AutoText" command to the QAT - it's in the "Commands not in the Ribbon" as well. Granted this isn't the perfect solution, but it's a little better than opening the Building Blocks Gallery each time. While I'd love to have the old methods back, given the boundaries of the new UI, I'd say what they need to do is modify the current AutoText command and organize the AutoText entries in to submenus according to the Category (previously the Style) - similar to the way it used to be. You can also still use Word for email. The "Email" command can also be found in the "Commands not in the Ribbon" category for QAT customization. As in previous versions, this will toggle the email headers and allow you to send email using Word. To migrate your AutoCorrect entries to Word 2007, use the macro found AutoCorrect.dot which can be downloaded from: http://word.mvps.org/faqs/Customizat...utocorrect.htm. Open the template in Word 2003 and run the Backup procedure which will create a document of your AutoCorrect entries. Then open AutoCorrect.dot in Word 2007 and run the Restore procedure. As for your AutoText entries, you might try replacing Normal.dotm (or Normal.dotx) with your old Normal.dot. Then open Normal.dot in Word, open the Microsoft Office Button, and click Upgrade. Then save it in the new file format. They also need to return the functionality to import AutoText entries in Word 2007. The Organizer is still around but it no longer has the AutoText tab. So...it looks like to primary suggestions: - Add organization to AutoText entries - Provide the ability to import AutoText entries. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Greg Gates" greg AT ringdesigner.com wrote in message ... QuickParts not a substitute for AutocorrectAutotext RECAP OF WHAT WE POSTED BACK ON 052906 Situation in the past: For Word/Outlook 2003, we would go ToolsAutocorrectAutotext to find our stored text information. For 2007, can't find it or our data of a lot of stored information? Explanation of what we did: We used AutocorrectAutotext as a method to store hundreds paragraphs of text to be used in the body of a response message. These paragraphs, some including images, are use to respond to customers addressing a specific topic (ie responding to a person asking a question we have answered in detail before). For example, someone may ask about a diamond's clarity and what does it mean? So we had a page of text (in AutocorrectAutotext ) explaining that topic in detail. To type this text every time for every response, would be time consuming and not very cost effective. So we would just go to "AutocorrectAutotext" pick the topic titled "Diamond's clarity detailed explanation with images 042705rev" The 042705 being the date we last revised the response text. We then inserted it into the body of the message. Questions for the difference between 2003 and 2007: I can't find our AutocorrectAutotext entries on Outlook 2007 or Word 2007 anywhere (which I think were part of the normal.dot file in Word 2003). Please don't tell us this is a feature that just went away without warning? Or instructions as to how to migrate it? If so we just lost hundreds of hours of text and revisions. My guess is we are not the only ones using the 2003 Word/Outlook AutocorrectAutotext function this way. Help: Is there a way to migrate all our AutocorrectAutotext 2003 entries, or is that hundreds of hours keying over the past several years lost forever? AS OF TODAY 060406 Much of the feedback we received in this forum, suggested using the new 2007 QuickParts as a replacement. So we did just that! And after doing that................ We really want to suggest to Microsoft they reconsider including the AutocorrectAutotext functionality into 2007. -Bottom line, 2007 QuickParts does not even come close to the ease and functionality of Word/Outlook 2003 (and ealier versions) AutocorrectAutotext. -2007 QuickParts is not easy to work with. -We painfully manually keyed in/added 60 of our 2003 AutocorrectAutotext entries. -Over the past 5 days, we used the 2007 QuickParts function in our e-commerce business e-mail customer correspondence to access the 60 stored entries. So we used it hands-on! -Accessing each entry in 2007 QuickParts is nowhere near the ease of 2003 Word/Outlook AutocorrectAutotext! In fact 2007 QuickParts is very very very very difficult to use. -The hardest thing using 2007 QuickParts is accessing each individual entry of the 60 QuickParts we stored . -In 2003 AutocorrectAutotext, it was so very easy to access any one of our individual entries of stored text. Just start keying the first words, and it filled in all the rest (or you could go retrieve it easily via a button). -2007 QuickParts is cumbersome and extremely awkward to use. SUGGESTIONS [1] Please Microsoft, bring back the function of 2003 AutocorrectAutotext. [2] Build some conversion function to bring into 2007 all the 2003 AutocorrectAutotext entries [3] OR build some tool to be able to quickly access the individual entries stored in 2007 QuickParts. It will take us hours to repopulate all the Autotext entries manually, but at least we will not lose the entire function that 2003 AutocorrectAutotext provided small business and e-commerce businesses. Thank you for listening! Regards, Greg Gates www.ringdesigner.com -- Greg Gates Co founder www.ringdesigner.com www.ringdesigner.com ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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And there lies the rub for Microsoft with this new version. How many
corporate customers are going to want to cripple productivity while they re-train their staff? 2002/3 was a shock - 2007 may be a shock too far? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Patrick Schmid wrote: ...is there information we don't know about?? Nope. We are all still learning here Patrick Schmid -------------- http://pschmid.net _______________________ "Beth Melton" wrote in message ... Did you assign the entries to the AutoText Gallery or Quick Parts gallery? If you added them to the AutoText gallery then you can add the AutoText command to the QAT which provides access to the AutoText gallery and the ability to create new AutoText entries. To do so: right-click the Ribbon and select "Customize Quick Access Toolbar". In the "Commands not in the Ribbon", locate "AutoText" and add it to your QAT. Although the AutoComplete tips are no longer available, you can type the first few letters and press F3 to insert the entry or add the "Insert AutoText" command to the QAT - it's in the "Commands not in the Ribbon" as well. Granted this isn't the perfect solution, but it's a little better than opening the Building Blocks Gallery each time. While I'd love to have the old methods back, given the boundaries of the new UI, I'd say what they need to do is modify the current AutoText command and organize the AutoText entries in to submenus according to the Category (previously the Style) - similar to the way it used to be. You can also still use Word for email. The "Email" command can also be found in the "Commands not in the Ribbon" category for QAT customization. As in previous versions, this will toggle the email headers and allow you to send email using Word. To migrate your AutoCorrect entries to Word 2007, use the macro found AutoCorrect.dot which can be downloaded from: http://word.mvps.org/faqs/Customizat...utocorrect.htm. Open the template in Word 2003 and run the Backup procedure which will create a document of your AutoCorrect entries. Then open AutoCorrect.dot in Word 2007 and run the Restore procedure. As for your AutoText entries, you might try replacing Normal.dotm (or Normal.dotx) with your old Normal.dot. Then open Normal.dot in Word, open the Microsoft Office Button, and click Upgrade. Then save it in the new file format. They also need to return the functionality to import AutoText entries in Word 2007. The Organizer is still around but it no longer has the AutoText tab. So...it looks like to primary suggestions: - Add organization to AutoText entries - Provide the ability to import AutoText entries. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Greg Gates" greg AT ringdesigner.com wrote in message ... QuickParts not a substitute for AutocorrectAutotext RECAP OF WHAT WE POSTED BACK ON 052906 Situation in the past: For Word/Outlook 2003, we would go ToolsAutocorrectAutotext to find our stored text information. For 2007, can't find it or our data of a lot of stored information? Explanation of what we did: We used AutocorrectAutotext as a method to store hundreds paragraphs of text to be used in the body of a response message. These paragraphs, some including images, are use to respond to customers addressing a specific topic (ie responding to a person asking a question we have answered in detail before). For example, someone may ask about a diamond's clarity and what does it mean? So we had a page of text (in AutocorrectAutotext ) explaining that topic in detail. To type this text every time for every response, would be time consuming and not very cost effective. So we would just go to "AutocorrectAutotext" pick the topic titled "Diamond's clarity detailed explanation with images 042705rev" The 042705 being the date we last revised the response text. We then inserted it into the body of the message. Questions for the difference between 2003 and 2007: I can't find our AutocorrectAutotext entries on Outlook 2007 or Word 2007 anywhere (which I think were part of the normal.dot file in Word 2003). Please don't tell us this is a feature that just went away without warning? Or instructions as to how to migrate it? If so we just lost hundreds of hours of text and revisions. My guess is we are not the only ones using the 2003 Word/Outlook AutocorrectAutotext function this way. Help: Is there a way to migrate all our AutocorrectAutotext 2003 entries, or is that hundreds of hours keying over the past several years lost forever? AS OF TODAY 060406 Much of the feedback we received in this forum, suggested using the new 2007 QuickParts as a replacement. So we did just that! And after doing that................ We really want to suggest to Microsoft they reconsider including the AutocorrectAutotext functionality into 2007. -Bottom line, 2007 QuickParts does not even come close to the ease and functionality of Word/Outlook 2003 (and ealier versions) AutocorrectAutotext. -2007 QuickParts is not easy to work with. -We painfully manually keyed in/added 60 of our 2003 AutocorrectAutotext entries. -Over the past 5 days, we used the 2007 QuickParts function in our e-commerce business e-mail customer correspondence to access the 60 stored entries. So we used it hands-on! -Accessing each entry in 2007 QuickParts is nowhere near the ease of 2003 Word/Outlook AutocorrectAutotext! In fact 2007 QuickParts is very very very very difficult to use. -The hardest thing using 2007 QuickParts is accessing each individual entry of the 60 QuickParts we stored . -In 2003 AutocorrectAutotext, it was so very easy to access any one of our individual entries of stored text. Just start keying the first words, and it filled in all the rest (or you could go retrieve it easily via a button). -2007 QuickParts is cumbersome and extremely awkward to use. SUGGESTIONS [1] Please Microsoft, bring back the function of 2003 AutocorrectAutotext. [2] Build some conversion function to bring into 2007 all the 2003 AutocorrectAutotext entries [3] OR build some tool to be able to quickly access the individual entries stored in 2007 QuickParts. It will take us hours to repopulate all the Autotext entries manually, but at least we will not lose the entire function that 2003 AutocorrectAutotext provided small business and e-commerce businesses. Thank you for listening! Regards, Greg Gates www.ringdesigner.com -- Greg Gates Co founder www.ringdesigner.com www.ringdesigner.com ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Thanks Beth!
The 'Help' within the Beta is sparse - almost zilch on Quickparts. Lots of people are discovering all these things over 'n over - nice to have a focus or clearing house on such things. Thanks again. -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "Beth Melton" wrote in message ... I'm sure there's a LOT we all still don't know so I want 'More' too. ;-) Are you referring to how Quick Parts and AutoText work or something else? If it's general information you're after, there are a few articles on Office 2007 on this page and they will be updated periodically: http://www.microsoft.com/office/prev...e_archive.mspx Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Pat Garard" apgarard-bigpond:net:au wrote in message ... Hi Beth, This is a High Quality response - thank you. I, for one, would like to know More... ...is there information we don't know about?? -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "Beth Melton" wrote in message ... Did you assign the entries to the AutoText Gallery or Quick Parts gallery? If you added them to the AutoText gallery then you can add the AutoText command to the QAT which provides access to the AutoText gallery and the ability to create new AutoText entries. To do so: right-click the Ribbon and select "Customize Quick Access Toolbar". In the "Commands not in the Ribbon", locate "AutoText" and add it to your QAT. Although the AutoComplete tips are no longer available, you can type the first few letters and press F3 to insert the entry or add the "Insert AutoText" command to the QAT - it's in the "Commands not in the Ribbon" as well. Granted this isn't the perfect solution, but it's a little better than opening the Building Blocks Gallery each time. While I'd love to have the old methods back, given the boundaries of the new UI, I'd say what they need to do is modify the current AutoText command and organize the AutoText entries in to submenus according to the Category (previously the Style) - similar to the way it used to be. You can also still use Word for email. The "Email" command can also be found in the "Commands not in the Ribbon" category for QAT customization. As in previous versions, this will toggle the email headers and allow you to send email using Word. To migrate your AutoCorrect entries to Word 2007, use the macro found AutoCorrect.dot which can be downloaded from: http://word.mvps.org/faqs/Customizat...utocorrect.htm. Open the template in Word 2003 and run the Backup procedure which will create a document of your AutoCorrect entries. Then open AutoCorrect.dot in Word 2007 and run the Restore procedure. As for your AutoText entries, you might try replacing Normal.dotm (or Normal.dotx) with your old Normal.dot. Then open Normal.dot in Word, open the Microsoft Office Button, and click Upgrade. Then save it in the new file format. They also need to return the functionality to import AutoText entries in Word 2007. The Organizer is still around but it no longer has the AutoText tab. So...it looks like to primary suggestions: - Add organization to AutoText entries - Provide the ability to import AutoText entries. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Greg Gates" greg AT ringdesigner.com wrote in message ... QuickParts not a substitute for AutocorrectAutotext RECAP OF WHAT WE POSTED BACK ON 052906 Situation in the past: For Word/Outlook 2003, we would go ToolsAutocorrectAutotext to find our stored text information. For 2007, can't find it or our data of a lot of stored information? Explanation of what we did: We used AutocorrectAutotext as a method to store hundreds paragraphs of text to be used in the body of a response message. These paragraphs, some including images, are use to respond to customers addressing a specific topic (ie responding to a person asking a question we have answered in detail before). For example, someone may ask about a diamond's clarity and what does it mean? So we had a page of text (in AutocorrectAutotext ) explaining that topic in detail. To type this text every time for every response, would be time consuming and not very cost effective. So we would just go to "AutocorrectAutotext" pick the topic titled "Diamond's clarity detailed explanation with images 042705rev" The 042705 being the date we last revised the response text. We then inserted it into the body of the message. Questions for the difference between 2003 and 2007: I can't find our AutocorrectAutotext entries on Outlook 2007 or Word 2007 anywhere (which I think were part of the normal.dot file in Word 2003). Please don't tell us this is a feature that just went away without warning? Or instructions as to how to migrate it? If so we just lost hundreds of hours of text and revisions. My guess is we are not the only ones using the 2003 Word/Outlook AutocorrectAutotext function this way. Help: Is there a way to migrate all our AutocorrectAutotext 2003 entries, or is that hundreds of hours keying over the past several years lost forever? AS OF TODAY 060406 Much of the feedback we received in this forum, suggested using the new 2007 QuickParts as a replacement. So we did just that! And after doing that................ We really want to suggest to Microsoft they reconsider including the AutocorrectAutotext functionality into 2007. -Bottom line, 2007 QuickParts does not even come close to the ease and functionality of Word/Outlook 2003 (and ealier versions) AutocorrectAutotext. -2007 QuickParts is not easy to work with. -We painfully manually keyed in/added 60 of our 2003 AutocorrectAutotext entries. -Over the past 5 days, we used the 2007 QuickParts function in our e-commerce business e-mail customer correspondence to access the 60 stored entries. So we used it hands-on! -Accessing each entry in 2007 QuickParts is nowhere near the ease of 2003 Word/Outlook AutocorrectAutotext! In fact 2007 QuickParts is very very very very difficult to use. -The hardest thing using 2007 QuickParts is accessing each individual entry of the 60 QuickParts we stored . -In 2003 AutocorrectAutotext, it was so very easy to access any one of our individual entries of stored text. Just start keying the first words, and it filled in all the rest (or you could go retrieve it easily via a button). -2007 QuickParts is cumbersome and extremely awkward to use. SUGGESTIONS [1] Please Microsoft, bring back the function of 2003 AutocorrectAutotext. [2] Build some conversion function to bring into 2007 all the 2003 AutocorrectAutotext entries [3] OR build some tool to be able to quickly access the individual entries stored in 2007 QuickParts. It will take us hours to repopulate all the Autotext entries manually, but at least we will not lose the entire function that 2003 AutocorrectAutotext provided small business and e-commerce businesses. Thank you for listening! Regards, Greg Gates www.ringdesigner.com -- Greg Gates Co founder www.ringdesigner.com www.ringdesigner.com ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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That's fantastic Beth! I now have all my autotext entries back again!
As regards E-mail via Word, that's not so efficient as writing directly in Outlook. Do you know of any way of transferring the Word Autotext entries to Outlook? Many thanks! Daniele Beth Melton wrote: As for your AutoText entries, you might try replacing Normal.dotm (or Normal.dotx) with your old Normal.dot. Then open Normal.dot in Word, open the Microsoft Office Button, and click Upgrade. Then save it in the new file format. |
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Unforunately, although Word functionality is available in Outlook, it
no longer uses WinWord.exe for its email editor. IOW, there is little sharing between them. You can utilize Quick Parts for Outlook which is found on the Insert tab. Since there isn't currently a means to transfer AutoText as there was in previous versions, I suspect another utility will be developed so you could transfer your AutoText from Word to Outlook.(I hope anyway!). So you may want to hold off on recreating them by hand if you can. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ wrote in message oups.com... That's fantastic Beth! I now have all my autotext entries back again! As regards E-mail via Word, that's not so efficient as writing directly in Outlook. Do you know of any way of transferring the Word Autotext entries to Outlook? Many thanks! Daniele Beth Melton wrote: As for your AutoText entries, you might try replacing Normal.dotm (or Normal.dotx) with your old Normal.dot. Then open Normal.dot in Word, open the Microsoft Office Button, and click Upgrade. Then save it in the new file format. |
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Hi:
I have been using Word 2000 for some time, and just started having two very strange problems with Autotext: (1) When I'm prompted to complete a word (e.g. typing "reas.." prompts "reasonable" in box) and, to insert the word, I hit enter ... and the word doesn't insert. Hitting enter just makes the cursor go down a line (e.g. "reas" is left on line one, and cursor shifts down to next line, as if I hit enter in absence of any Autotext functionality being present) (2) When I hit F3 (rather than enter, which I MUCH prefer) to insert the Autotext entry, a word is inserted, but it enters a whole different word from my custom Autotext list (e.g. I type "reas," box appears prompting for "reasonable," I hit F3, and from out of left field the word "discussion" is inserted). These problems are driving me nuts. I rely on Autotext heavily. Has anyone ever heard of these problems, and know how I may be able to fix them such that Enter works again, and the right words fill in? Any assistance would be very much appreciated! Thanks Mike |
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QuickParts not a substitute for AutocorrectAutotext
I certainly agree. I don't care to even learn about Quick Parts. At best,
it looks mouldy, funky, rotten, rancent to me. "Greg Gates" wrote: QuickParts not a substitute for AutocorrectAutotext RECAP OF WHAT WE POSTED BACK ON 052906 Situation in the past: For Word/Outlook 2003, we would go ToolsAutocorrectAutotext to find our stored text information. For 2007, can't find it or our data of a lot of stored information? Explanation of what we did: We used AutocorrectAutotext as a method to store hundreds paragraphs of text to be used in the body of a response message. These paragraphs, some including images, are use to respond to customers addressing a specific topic (ie responding to a person asking a question we have answered in detail before). For example, someone may ask about a diamond's clarity and what does it mean? So we had a page of text (in AutocorrectAutotext ) explaining that topic in detail. To type this text every time for every response, would be time consuming and not very cost effective. So we would just go to "AutocorrectAutotext" pick the topic titled "Diamond's clarity detailed explanation with images 042705rev" The 042705 being the date we last revised the response text. We then inserted it into the body of the message. Questions for the difference between 2003 and 2007: I can't find our AutocorrectAutotext entries on Outlook 2007 or Word 2007 anywhere (which I think were part of the normal.dot file in Word 2003). Please don't tell us this is a feature that just went away without warning? Or instructions as to how to migrate it? If so we just lost hundreds of hours of text and revisions. My guess is we are not the only ones using the 2003 Word/Outlook AutocorrectAutotext function this way. Help: Is there a way to migrate all our AutocorrectAutotext 2003 entries, or is that hundreds of hours keying over the past several years lost forever? AS OF TODAY 060406 Much of the feedback we received in this forum, suggested using the new 2007 QuickParts as a replacement. So we did just that! And after doing that................ We really want to suggest to Microsoft they reconsider including the AutocorrectAutotext functionality into 2007. -Bottom line, 2007 QuickParts does not even come close to the ease and functionality of Word/Outlook 2003 (and ealier versions) AutocorrectAutotext. -2007 QuickParts is not easy to work with. -We painfully manually keyed in/added 60 of our 2003 AutocorrectAutotext entries. -Over the past 5 days, we used the 2007 QuickParts function in our e-commerce business e-mail customer correspondence to access the 60 stored entries. So we used it hands-on! -Accessing each entry in 2007 QuickParts is nowhere near the ease of 2003 Word/Outlook AutocorrectAutotext! In fact 2007 QuickParts is very very very very difficult to use. -The hardest thing using 2007 QuickParts is accessing each individual entry of the 60 QuickParts we stored . -In 2003 AutocorrectAutotext, it was so very easy to access any one of our individual entries of stored text. Just start keying the first words, and it filled in all the rest (or you could go retrieve it easily via a button). -2007 QuickParts is cumbersome and extremely awkward to use. SUGGESTIONS [1] Please Microsoft, bring back the function of 2003 AutocorrectAutotext. [2] Build some conversion function to bring into 2007 all the 2003 AutocorrectAutotext entries [3] OR build some tool to be able to quickly access the individual entries stored in 2007 QuickParts. It will take us hours to repopulate all the Autotext entries manually, but at least we will not lose the entire function that 2003 AutocorrectAutotext provided small business and e-commerce businesses. Thank you for listening! Regards, Greg Gates www.ringdesigner.com -- Greg Gates Co founder www.ringdesigner.com www.ringdesigner.com ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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QuickParts not a substitute for AutocorrectAutotext
I have been working with Quick Parts for about a year now and I
suspect you'll change your mind once you learn they're nothing more than enhanced AutoText. :-) In the past it was difficult to organize your AutoText entries - you had to know you needed to associate them with a style in order to categorize them, there wasn't a Gallery (preview) of your entries unless you used the AutoText dialog box. If you wanted a list of AutoText entries for selection in a document you needed to know how to create an AutoText list field (and the style aspect), and the built-in AutoText entries were primarily text. While you could use AutoText for graphics and such, this aspect wasn't widely known. Now it's easy to organize/categorize them, you don't have to memorize names - you can see a preview instead, and in the new Controls you can insert a Building Blocks/Quick Parts control to insert a list of entries for selection in a document (think templates), and the fact they can be used for more then just text is more visible in light of the built-in entries. Granted most of this was available in previous versions, but now 'how to' is simple and straightforward. PLUS, one of the coolest aspects is the built-in entries are linked to the document theme. Try this, create a new document, from the Insert tab, open the Cover Page gallery and insert a cover page such as "Mod" (although a bit too much for my taste, it will demonstrate the various elements the best). Then from the Page Layout tab, open the Themes gallery and hover over the various document themes. Note the Live Preview and how the elements in the previously inserted cover page automatically update to the document theme. Then on the Insert tab, open the Header gallery and note the gallery previews, they also match the document theme. So newly inserted Quick Parts will not need to be reformatted, it's just a matter of inserting them. And if the document theme ever changes the previously inserted elements will update. Note that some Quick Parts do not update to the document theme in B2 - these were all corrected in a later build. Also note, this is still a beta and I suspect we'll see improvements to Quick Parts in the future. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Thomas Kufahl" wrote in message ... I certainly agree. I don't care to even learn about Quick Parts. At best, it looks mouldy, funky, rotten, rancent to me. |
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