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Header/Footer Insert Autotext disabled?
I want to select filename option to place in footer of my template Word doc
so I don't have to go to ToolsInsert Field select Filename for every new doc. The item called Autotext is grayed out (disabled) in the Header/Footer window. I am running Office Pro 2000 on WinXP Pro with SP2. I have searched Help and the Knoledge Base for clues but found none. I had used this feature when I was running the same product on my old slow Win98 machine. I'd guess somewhere I need to load something or other. Help would be appreciated. |
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Either you have "Look in" set to something other than "All active templates"
in Insert | AutoText | AutoText, or you have overwritten Normal.dot with a document or another template. -- 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. "MooseMan" wrote in message ... I want to select filename option to place in footer of my template Word doc so I don't have to go to ToolsInsert Field select Filename for every new doc. The item called Autotext is grayed out (disabled) in the Header/Footer window. I am running Office Pro 2000 on WinXP Pro with SP2. I have searched Help and the Knoledge Base for clues but found none. I had used this feature when I was running the same product on my old slow Win98 machine. I'd guess somewhere I need to load something or other. Help would be appreciated. |
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Suzanne,
I have created a new Normal.dot with custom margins and desired font. It replaced the default Normal.dot. In past I was able to do that. I checked InsertAutoCorrectAutotext and Look In was set to All active templates, I changed it to Normal.dot (global template) the only other choice in the drop down. It did not affect my problem. I closed Word and re-launched and that setting changed back to All active template from Normal.dot. Is it clear, the Header/Footer control window has grayed out Insert AutoText which I believe has choice to insert the filename as a field in my footer. Once set in the Normal.dot, when I create a new document and save it, the filename would progogate the header location where I inserted the filename field. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Either you have "Look in" set to something other than "All active templates" in Insert | AutoText | AutoText, or you have overwritten Normal.dot with a document or another template. -- 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. "MooseMan" wrote in message ... I want to select filename option to place in footer of my template Word doc so I don't have to go to ToolsInsert Field select Filename for every new doc. The item called Autotext is grayed out (disabled) in the Header/Footer window. I am running Office Pro 2000 on WinXP Pro with SP2. I have searched Help and the Knoledge Base for clues but found none. I had used this feature when I was running the same product on my old slow Win98 machine. I'd guess somewhere I need to load something or other. Help would be appreciated. |
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Normal.dot cannot be created by users, only by Word itself. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...alTemplate.htm and €śWD2002: Styles and AutoText Are Not Copied to New Template Based on Normal.dot€ť at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=291441 -- 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. "MooseMan" wrote in message ... Suzanne, I have created a new Normal.dot with custom margins and desired font. It replaced the default Normal.dot. In past I was able to do that. I checked InsertAutoCorrectAutotext and Look In was set to All active templates, I changed it to Normal.dot (global template) the only other choice in the drop down. It did not affect my problem. I closed Word and re-launched and that setting changed back to All active template from Normal.dot. Is it clear, the Header/Footer control window has grayed out Insert AutoText which I believe has choice to insert the filename as a field in my footer. Once set in the Normal.dot, when I create a new document and save it, the filename would progogate the header location where I inserted the filename field. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Either you have "Look in" set to something other than "All active templates" in Insert | AutoText | AutoText, or you have overwritten Normal.dot with a document or another template. -- 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. "MooseMan" wrote in message ... I want to select filename option to place in footer of my template Word doc so I don't have to go to ToolsInsert Field select Filename for every new doc. The item called Autotext is grayed out (disabled) in the Header/Footer window. I am running Office Pro 2000 on WinXP Pro with SP2. I have searched Help and the Knoledge Base for clues but found none. I had used this feature when I was running the same product on my old slow Win98 machine. I'd guess somewhere I need to load something or other. Help would be appreciated. |
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Thanks. It may have been a previous version of Word that I was able to
change Normal.dot. Thanks for stearing me to these valuable docs. I appreciate your help, I only wish search tools were more intuitive that I could more often be successful finding the little morsels that I need when I need them! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Normal.dot cannot be created by users, only by Word itself. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...alTemplate.htm and €śWD2002: Styles and AutoText Are Not Copied to New Template Based on Normal.dot€ť at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=291441 -- 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. "MooseMan" wrote in message ... Suzanne, I have created a new Normal.dot with custom margins and desired font. It replaced the default Normal.dot. In past I was able to do that. I checked InsertAutoCorrectAutotext and Look In was set to All active templates, I changed it to Normal.dot (global template) the only other choice in the drop down. It did not affect my problem. I closed Word and re-launched and that setting changed back to All active template from Normal.dot. Is it clear, the Header/Footer control window has grayed out Insert AutoText which I believe has choice to insert the filename as a field in my footer. Once set in the Normal.dot, when I create a new document and save it, the filename would progogate the header location where I inserted the filename field. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Either you have "Look in" set to something other than "All active templates" in Insert | AutoText | AutoText, or you have overwritten Normal.dot with a document or another template. -- 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. "MooseMan" wrote in message ... I want to select filename option to place in footer of my template Word doc so I don't have to go to ToolsInsert Field select Filename for every new doc. The item called Autotext is grayed out (disabled) in the Header/Footer window. I am running Office Pro 2000 on WinXP Pro with SP2. I have searched Help and the Knoledge Base for clues but found none. I had used this feature when I was running the same product on my old slow Win98 machine. I'd guess somewhere I need to load something or other. Help would be appreciated. |
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It has never been possible for ordinary mortals to "create" Normal.dot. You
can certainly edit it, and you can force Word to create it from scratch, but you can't substitute your personal template for Normal.dot without adverse consequences. -- 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. "MooseMan" wrote in message ... Thanks. It may have been a previous version of Word that I was able to change Normal.dot. Thanks for stearing me to these valuable docs. I appreciate your help, I only wish search tools were more intuitive that I could more often be successful finding the little morsels that I need when I need them! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Normal.dot cannot be created by users, only by Word itself. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...alTemplate.htm and €śWD2002: Styles and AutoText Are Not Copied to New Template Based on Normal.dot€ť at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=291441 -- 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. "MooseMan" wrote in message ... Suzanne, I have created a new Normal.dot with custom margins and desired font. It replaced the default Normal.dot. In past I was able to do that. I checked InsertAutoCorrectAutotext and Look In was set to All active templates, I changed it to Normal.dot (global template) the only other choice in the drop down. It did not affect my problem. I closed Word and re-launched and that setting changed back to All active template from Normal.dot. Is it clear, the Header/Footer control window has grayed out Insert AutoText which I believe has choice to insert the filename as a field in my footer. Once set in the Normal.dot, when I create a new document and save it, the filename would progogate the header location where I inserted the filename field. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Either you have "Look in" set to something other than "All active templates" in Insert | AutoText | AutoText, or you have overwritten Normal.dot with a document or another template. -- 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. "MooseMan" wrote in message ... I want to select filename option to place in footer of my template Word doc so I don't have to go to ToolsInsert Field select Filename for every new doc. The item called Autotext is grayed out (disabled) in the Header/Footer window. I am running Office Pro 2000 on WinXP Pro with SP2. I have searched Help and the Knoledge Base for clues but found none. I had used this feature when I was running the same product on my old slow Win98 machine. I'd guess somewhere I need to load something or other. Help would be appreciated. |
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