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Aspen
 
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Default how do I keep my autocorrects from erasing?

Every time I close my word and re-open it my autocorrects that I have just
added are not there. I do not know why they keep erasing. I have tried with
all 3 macro security settings and this is not helping either. Any
suggestiongs? I was not having this problem until I changed to Office 2003
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Are these AutoCorrect entries or AutoText? If AutoCorrect, are they
formatted AutoCorrect entries? Do you have Acrobat 7 installed?

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"Aspen" wrote in message
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Every time I close my word and re-open it my autocorrects that I have just
added are not there. I do not know why they keep erasing. I have tried

with
all 3 macro security settings and this is not helping either. Any
suggestiongs? I was not having this problem until I changed to Office 2003


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On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:01:06 -0700, "Aspen"
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Every time I close my word and re-open it my autocorrects that I have just
added are not there. I do not know why they keep erasing. I have tried with
all 3 macro security settings and this is not helping either. Any
suggestiongs? I was not having this problem until I changed to Office 2003


Formatted AutoCorrect entries are stored in the Normal.dot template,
and unformatted entries are stored in .ACL files. Can you determine
whether the problem occurs with one type or the other, or both?

If it's the formatted ones, that indicates a problem in saving
Normal.dot. Lately the most common cause of this seems to be the
add-in from Adobe Acrobat 7.0, but it could also be that the file is
set to be read-only.

If it's the unformatted ones, you may have a corrupted .ACL file. See
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...utocorrect.htm for
information about how to find it and -- once you fix the problem --
how to back up the entries.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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does that mean I have to uninstall Acrobat 7.0?

And its the autocorrect ones that you create yourself and add to autocorrect
to create shortcuts for yourself.. like if I wanted to type dog but I put in
the shortcut d,, as a shortcut for that word...

I have some of the autocorrects that I created which are there, though the
rest that I try to create recently are not there.

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:01:06 -0700, "Aspen"
wrote:

Every time I close my word and re-open it my autocorrects that I have just
added are not there. I do not know why they keep erasing. I have tried with
all 3 macro security settings and this is not helping either. Any
suggestiongs? I was not having this problem until I changed to Office 2003


Formatted AutoCorrect entries are stored in the Normal.dot template,
and unformatted entries are stored in .ACL files. Can you determine
whether the problem occurs with one type or the other, or both?

If it's the formatted ones, that indicates a problem in saving
Normal.dot. Lately the most common cause of this seems to be the
add-in from Adobe Acrobat 7.0, but it could also be that the file is
set to be read-only.

If it's the unformatted ones, you may have a corrupted .ACL file. See
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...utocorrect.htm for
information about how to find it and -- once you fix the problem --
how to back up the entries.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

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No, you shouldn't have to uninstall all of Acrobat 7, just the add-in for
Word.

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Jay Freedman
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Aspen wrote:
does that mean I have to uninstall Acrobat 7.0?

And its the autocorrect ones that you create yourself and add to
autocorrect to create shortcuts for yourself.. like if I wanted to
type dog but I put in the shortcut d,, as a shortcut for that word...

I have some of the autocorrects that I created which are there,
though the rest that I try to create recently are not there.

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:01:06 -0700, "Aspen"
wrote:

Every time I close my word and re-open it my autocorrects that I
have just added are not there. I do not know why they keep erasing.
I have tried with all 3 macro security settings and this is not
helping either. Any suggestiongs? I was not having this problem
until I changed to Office 2003


Formatted AutoCorrect entries are stored in the Normal.dot template,
and unformatted entries are stored in .ACL files. Can you determine
whether the problem occurs with one type or the other, or both?

If it's the formatted ones, that indicates a problem in saving
Normal.dot. Lately the most common cause of this seems to be the
add-in from Adobe Acrobat 7.0, but it could also be that the file is
set to be read-only.

If it's the unformatted ones, you may have a corrupted .ACL file. See
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...utocorrect.htm for
information about how to find it and -- once you fix the problem --
how to back up the entries.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org





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The thing is though that I had acrobat 7 and word installed at the same time.
Only some of my autocorrects are staying?

How do I uninstall the add-ins? I have checked out the other reply from
Suzanne and tried what it says to do, even installed what it said to install
and still it was not working..

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

No, you shouldn't have to uninstall all of Acrobat 7, just the add-in for
Word.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

Aspen wrote:
does that mean I have to uninstall Acrobat 7.0?

And its the autocorrect ones that you create yourself and add to
autocorrect to create shortcuts for yourself.. like if I wanted to
type dog but I put in the shortcut d,, as a shortcut for that word...

I have some of the autocorrects that I created which are there,
though the rest that I try to create recently are not there.

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:01:06 -0700, "Aspen"
wrote:

Every time I close my word and re-open it my autocorrects that I
have just added are not there. I do not know why they keep erasing.
I have tried with all 3 macro security settings and this is not
helping either. Any suggestiongs? I was not having this problem
until I changed to Office 2003

Formatted AutoCorrect entries are stored in the Normal.dot template,
and unformatted entries are stored in .ACL files. Can you determine
whether the problem occurs with one type or the other, or both?

If it's the formatted ones, that indicates a problem in saving
Normal.dot. Lately the most common cause of this seems to be the
add-in from Adobe Acrobat 7.0, but it could also be that the file is
set to be read-only.

If it's the unformatted ones, you may have a corrupted .ACL file. See
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...utocorrect.htm for
information about how to find it and -- once you fix the problem --
how to back up the entries.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org




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What my reply said to do was to read the last section of
http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm. Did you "try" to
do that?

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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.

"Aspen" wrote in message
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The thing is though that I had acrobat 7 and word installed at the same

time.
Only some of my autocorrects are staying?

How do I uninstall the add-ins? I have checked out the other reply from
Suzanne and tried what it says to do, even installed what it said to

install
and still it was not working..

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

No, you shouldn't have to uninstall all of Acrobat 7, just the add-in

for
Word.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

Aspen wrote:
does that mean I have to uninstall Acrobat 7.0?

And its the autocorrect ones that you create yourself and add to
autocorrect to create shortcuts for yourself.. like if I wanted to
type dog but I put in the shortcut d,, as a shortcut for that word...

I have some of the autocorrects that I created which are there,
though the rest that I try to create recently are not there.

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:01:06 -0700, "Aspen"
wrote:

Every time I close my word and re-open it my autocorrects that I
have just added are not there. I do not know why they keep erasing.
I have tried with all 3 macro security settings and this is not
helping either. Any suggestiongs? I was not having this problem
until I changed to Office 2003

Formatted AutoCorrect entries are stored in the Normal.dot template,
and unformatted entries are stored in .ACL files. Can you determine
whether the problem occurs with one type or the other, or both?

If it's the formatted ones, that indicates a problem in saving
Normal.dot. Lately the most common cause of this seems to be the
add-in from Adobe Acrobat 7.0, but it could also be that the file is
set to be read-only.

If it's the unformatted ones, you may have a corrupted .ACL file. See
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...utocorrect.htm for
information about how to find it and -- once you fix the problem --
how to back up the entries.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org





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does that mean I have to uninstall Acrobat 7.0?

See the last section of
http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm

And its the autocorrect ones that you create yourself and add to

autocorrect
to create shortcuts for yourself.. like if I wanted to type dog but I put

in

Obviously you don't understand the distinction between formatted and
unformatted AutoCorrect entries.

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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.

"Aspen" wrote in message
...
does that mean I have to uninstall Acrobat 7.0?

And its the autocorrect ones that you create yourself and add to

autocorrect
to create shortcuts for yourself.. like if I wanted to type dog but I put

in
the shortcut d,, as a shortcut for that word...

I have some of the autocorrects that I created which are there, though the
rest that I try to create recently are not there.

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:01:06 -0700, "Aspen"
wrote:

Every time I close my word and re-open it my autocorrects that I have

just
added are not there. I do not know why they keep erasing. I have tried

with
all 3 macro security settings and this is not helping either. Any
suggestiongs? I was not having this problem until I changed to Office

2003

Formatted AutoCorrect entries are stored in the Normal.dot template,
and unformatted entries are stored in .ACL files. Can you determine
whether the problem occurs with one type or the other, or both?

If it's the formatted ones, that indicates a problem in saving
Normal.dot. Lately the most common cause of this seems to be the
add-in from Adobe Acrobat 7.0, but it could also be that the file is
set to be read-only.

If it's the unformatted ones, you may have a corrupted .ACL file. See
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...utocorrect.htm for
information about how to find it and -- once you fix the problem --
how to back up the entries.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org


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