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2003 AutoText Entries Missing from Menu
I have existing AutoText entries that work great from the AutoCorrect dialog
box as well as when I type in the document and press Enter to activate the AutoText. However, recently I noticed that my AutoText entries are not displaying in the Insert AutoText menu with the categorical listing of AutoText entries. I simply get a blank gray box for each category that is listed. Why doesn't the menu populate with the built-in and user-made AutoText entries? I know I have seen it before, and I am not sure when this would have changed. Thank you for your help - Heather |
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2003 AutoText Entries Missing from Menu
Are you talking about autocorrect or autotext? They are not the same thing.
Autotext in Word 2003 is filed by the paragraph style used to create them, so the list will only display those entries applicable to the paragraph style at the cursor. If you want to see the full menu structure activate the menu with the cursor position formatted with the normal paragraph style. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org HT wrote: I have existing AutoText entries that work great from the AutoCorrect dialog box as well as when I type in the document and press Enter to activate the AutoText. However, recently I noticed that my AutoText entries are not displaying in the Insert AutoText menu with the categorical listing of AutoText entries. I simply get a blank gray box for each category that is listed. Why doesn't the menu populate with the built-in and user-made AutoText entries? I know I have seen it before, and I am not sure when this would have changed. Thank you for your help - Heather |
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2003 AutoText Entries Missing from Menu
Thank you Graham. Yes, it is AutoText I am talking about. The built-in
AutoText entries should be available for me to use in a brand new document, shouldn't they? No matter where I am, in a new document or an existing document, the entries show nothing. For example, if I go to Insert, AutoText, Attention Line (or ANY of the other category listings), they all just show a blank gray box where the submenu option is supposed to display. It is as if they are all missing! :-( But yet, when I go to Insert, AutoText, AutoText, there are all the entries and I can insert whichever ones I want. They also work when I use the keyboard and press enter after the yellow screen tip displays. But they are not showing in the AutoText menu and I would like them to, and I don't know how to fix this. Any ideas? Thanks so much for your help, Heather "Graham Mayor" wrote: Are you talking about autocorrect or autotext? They are not the same thing. Autotext in Word 2003 is filed by the paragraph style used to create them, so the list will only display those entries applicable to the paragraph style at the cursor. If you want to see the full menu structure activate the menu with the cursor position formatted with the normal paragraph style. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org HT wrote: I have existing AutoText entries that work great from the AutoCorrect dialog box as well as when I type in the document and press Enter to activate the AutoText. However, recently I noticed that my AutoText entries are not displaying in the Insert AutoText menu with the categorical listing of AutoText entries. I simply get a blank gray box for each category that is listed. Why doesn't the menu populate with the built-in and user-made AutoText entries? I know I have seen it before, and I am not sure when this would have changed. Thank you for your help - Heather |
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2003 AutoText Entries Missing from Menu
Locate and rename normal.dot to normal.old with Word closed (see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...artingWord.htm ). Does that fix it? If it does, use the Organizer ( ALT+F8 Organizer) to copy your personal autotext entries from the old template to the new one. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org HT wrote: Thank you Graham. Yes, it is AutoText I am talking about. The built-in AutoText entries should be available for me to use in a brand new document, shouldn't they? No matter where I am, in a new document or an existing document, the entries show nothing. For example, if I go to Insert, AutoText, Attention Line (or ANY of the other category listings), they all just show a blank gray box where the submenu option is supposed to display. It is as if they are all missing! :-( But yet, when I go to Insert, AutoText, AutoText, there are all the entries and I can insert whichever ones I want. They also work when I use the keyboard and press enter after the yellow screen tip displays. But they are not showing in the AutoText menu and I would like them to, and I don't know how to fix this. Any ideas? Thanks so much for your help, Heather "Graham Mayor" wrote: Are you talking about autocorrect or autotext? They are not the same thing. Autotext in Word 2003 is filed by the paragraph style used to create them, so the list will only display those entries applicable to the paragraph style at the cursor. If you want to see the full menu structure activate the menu with the cursor position formatted with the normal paragraph style. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org HT wrote: I have existing AutoText entries that work great from the AutoCorrect dialog box as well as when I type in the document and press Enter to activate the AutoText. However, recently I noticed that my AutoText entries are not displaying in the Insert AutoText menu with the categorical listing of AutoText entries. I simply get a blank gray box for each category that is listed. Why doesn't the menu populate with the built-in and user-made AutoText entries? I know I have seen it before, and I am not sure when this would have changed. Thank you for your help - Heather |
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2003 AutoText Entries Missing from Menu
Sorry for the delay, but THANK YOU so much, Graham. This fixed the problem.
Heather "Graham Mayor" wrote: Locate and rename normal.dot to normal.old with Word closed (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...artingWord.htm ). Does that fix it? If it does, use the Organizer ( ALT+F8 Organizer) to copy your personal autotext entries from the old template to the new one. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org HT wrote: Thank you Graham. Yes, it is AutoText I am talking about. The built-in AutoText entries should be available for me to use in a brand new document, shouldn't they? No matter where I am, in a new document or an existing document, the entries show nothing. For example, if I go to Insert, AutoText, Attention Line (or ANY of the other category listings), they all just show a blank gray box where the submenu option is supposed to display. It is as if they are all missing! :-( But yet, when I go to Insert, AutoText, AutoText, there are all the entries and I can insert whichever ones I want. They also work when I use the keyboard and press enter after the yellow screen tip displays. But they are not showing in the AutoText menu and I would like them to, and I don't know how to fix this. Any ideas? Thanks so much for your help, Heather "Graham Mayor" wrote: Are you talking about autocorrect or autotext? They are not the same thing. Autotext in Word 2003 is filed by the paragraph style used to create them, so the list will only display those entries applicable to the paragraph style at the cursor. If you want to see the full menu structure activate the menu with the cursor position formatted with the normal paragraph style. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org HT wrote: I have existing AutoText entries that work great from the AutoCorrect dialog box as well as when I type in the document and press Enter to activate the AutoText. However, recently I noticed that my AutoText entries are not displaying in the Insert AutoText menu with the categorical listing of AutoText entries. I simply get a blank gray box for each category that is listed. Why doesn't the menu populate with the built-in and user-made AutoText entries? I know I have seen it before, and I am not sure when this would have changed. Thank you for your help - Heather |
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