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Auto Text in Header/Footer
I am having some trouble with Header & Footers in Word. Although i can pull
them up to view and can insert certain items, the Autotext option is greyed out and non operational. Can anyone help me get it back please ? Thanks -- Mike Wells Secretary York Golf Club |
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Auto Text in Header/Footer
This is usually an indication that you have saved a document over
normal.dot. Rename normal.dot to oldnormal.dot and allow Word to rebuild another. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Mike wrote: I am having some trouble with Header & Footers in Word. Although i can pull them up to view and can insert certain items, the Autotext option is greyed out and non operational. Can anyone help me get it back please ? Thanks |
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Auto Text in Header/Footer
Thanks for the info. I was advised to amend normal.dot to avoid icons
dissapearing from tool bars every time Word opened new dos. However, have renamed file under MS Office templates as suggested - but open Word and new file and still have same problem ? Mike Wells Secretary York Golf Club "Graham Mayor" wrote: This is usually an indication that you have saved a document over normal.dot. Rename normal.dot to oldnormal.dot and allow Word to rebuild another. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Mike wrote: I am having some trouble with Header & Footers in Word. Although i can pull them up to view and can insert certain items, the Autotext option is greyed out and non operational. Can anyone help me get it back please ? Thanks |
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Auto Text in Header/Footer
Do you have more than one normal.dot? The one that matters is saved in the
folder indicated at tools options file locations user templates. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Mike wrote: Thanks for the info. I was advised to amend normal.dot to avoid icons disappearing from tool bars every time Word opened new dos. However, have renamed file under MS Office templates as suggested - but open Word and new file and still have same problem ? Mike Wells Secretary York Golf Club "Graham Mayor" wrote: This is usually an indication that you have saved a document over normal.dot. Rename normal.dot to oldnormal.dot and allow Word to rebuild another. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Mike wrote: I am having some trouble with Header & Footers in Word. Although i can pull them up to view and can insert certain items, the Autotext option is greyed out and non operational. Can anyone help me get it back please ? Thanks |
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Auto Text in Header/Footer
Thanks again Graham. Have changed the one referred to and whilst this now
allows me to insert autotext in header/footer and gives me options, I now am back to my icons dissappearing from toolbars every time a new document is opened. I will have to try and find a different way of stopping this from happening than changing the normal.dot file although some of the instructions on how to amend things need a rocket scientist to handle. Thanks for at least sorting one issue for me -- Mike Wells Secretary York Golf Club "Graham Mayor" wrote: Do you have more than one normal.dot? The one that matters is saved in the folder indicated at tools options file locations user templates. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Mike wrote: Thanks for the info. I was advised to amend normal.dot to avoid icons disappearing from tool bars every time Word opened new dos. However, have renamed file under MS Office templates as suggested - but open Word and new file and still have same problem ? Mike Wells Secretary York Golf Club "Graham Mayor" wrote: This is usually an indication that you have saved a document over normal.dot. Rename normal.dot to oldnormal.dot and allow Word to rebuild another. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Mike wrote: I am having some trouble with Header & Footers in Word. Although i can pull them up to view and can insert certain items, the Autotext option is greyed out and non operational. Can anyone help me get it back please ? Thanks |
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Auto Text in Header/Footer
You need to do some fairly extensive repairs. You never want to save a
different file with the name normal.dot. Only Word can build a normal.dot that does everything needed. So, at this point you may need to build your icons back into a file. First, though, try moving your old normal.dot file into your Word Startup folder and see if that gives you your icons back next time you open Word. You can find the location for this folder under Tools Options File Locations. The folder should _not_ be in your regular templates folders. For more on the different kinds of templates, tabs on the file new dialog, and locations of templates folders see http://addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm. If that doesn't work, you might as well build a new global template with your customizations outside of normal.dot, as spend the time recustomizing your new normal.dot. See http://addbalance.com/word/movetotemplate.htm for step-by-step instructions on moving / sharing / copying / backing-up customizations including AutoText, AutoCorrect, keyboard assignments, toolbars, macros, etc. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Mike" wrote in message ... Thanks again Graham. Have changed the one referred to and whilst this now allows me to insert autotext in header/footer and gives me options, I now am back to my icons dissappearing from toolbars every time a new document is opened. I will have to try and find a different way of stopping this from happening than changing the normal.dot file although some of the instructions on how to amend things need a rocket scientist to handle. Thanks for at least sorting one issue for me -- Mike Wells Secretary York Golf Club "Graham Mayor" wrote: Do you have more than one normal.dot? The one that matters is saved in the folder indicated at tools options file locations user templates. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Mike wrote: Thanks for the info. I was advised to amend normal.dot to avoid icons disappearing from tool bars every time Word opened new dos. However, have renamed file under MS Office templates as suggested - but open Word and new file and still have same problem ? Mike Wells Secretary York Golf Club "Graham Mayor" wrote: This is usually an indication that you have saved a document over normal.dot. Rename normal.dot to oldnormal.dot and allow Word to rebuild another. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Mike wrote: I am having some trouble with Header & Footers in Word. Although i can pull them up to view and can insert certain items, the Autotext option is greyed out and non operational. Can anyone help me get it back please ? Thanks |
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Auto Text in Header/Footer
Which icons 'disappear' from your toolbars?
Could this be that you have tools customize options show standard and formatting toolbars on two rows unchecked? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Mike wrote: Thanks again Graham. Have changed the one referred to and whilst this now allows me to insert autotext in header/footer and gives me options, I now am back to my icons dissappearing from toolbars every time a new document is opened. I will have to try and find a different way of stopping this from happening than changing the normal.dot file although some of the instructions on how to amend things need a rocket scientist to handle. Thanks for at least sorting one issue for me Do you have more than one normal.dot? The one that matters is saved in the folder indicated at tools options file locations user templates. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Mike wrote: Thanks for the info. I was advised to amend normal.dot to avoid icons disappearing from tool bars every time Word opened new dos. However, have renamed file under MS Office templates as suggested - but open Word and new file and still have same problem ? Mike Wells Secretary York Golf Club "Graham Mayor" wrote: This is usually an indication that you have saved a document over normal.dot. Rename normal.dot to oldnormal.dot and allow Word to rebuild another. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Mike wrote: I am having some trouble with Header & Footers in Word. Although i can pull them up to view and can insert certain items, the Autotext option is greyed out and non operational. Can anyone help me get it back please ? Thanks |
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