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Autotext - Word 2003
I am using trying to use Autotext in Word 2003, but every time I try to
insert the autotext Word stops responding. Can anyone help me stop this happening???? -- Regards Clair |
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Autotext - Word 2003
Hi ?B?Q2hlc3RlcjE=?=,
I am using trying to use Autotext in Word 2003, but every time I try to insert the autotext Word stops responding. Can anyone help me stop this happening???? If you start Word in Safe Mode (hold down CTRL), does the problem go away while you're in Safe Mode? (Note: any AutoText entries you've created won't be available, but the default ones should be there) Is the problem happening with all autoText, or only ones you've created? If the latter, are the problem entries stored in a particular template? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Autotext - Word 2003
This is happening to us as well. It doesn't hang every time any autotext is
inserted - it is only certain autotext entries. If I delete and recreate the autotext entry that it hangs on, then I can insert the autotext entry without any problem. These are autotext entries stored in a particular template. I will try Safe Mode and see if that particular template functions in Safe Mode (if it doesn't then Safe Mode is not an option) and whether the same autotext entry freezes Word while in Safe Mode. MarieJ "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi ?B?Q2hlc3RlcjE=?=, I am using trying to use Autotext in Word 2003, but every time I try to insert the autotext Word stops responding. Can anyone help me stop this happening???? If you start Word in Safe Mode (hold down CTRL), does the problem go away while you're in Safe Mode? (Note: any AutoText entries you've created won't be available, but the default ones should be there) Is the problem happening with all autoText, or only ones you've created? If the latter, are the problem entries stored in a particular template? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Autotext - Word 2003
Opening Word in Safe Mode does not let the user open the document. We use a
Interwoven's document management system. Any more ideas? We're about to reimage her and give her a brand new profile just as a last resort (and the user is tapping her toe telling us to take care of this "once and for all". Don't you just love it!) Other users work in the same documents and do not have this problem. MarieJ "MarieJ" wrote: This is happening to us as well. It doesn't hang every time any autotext is inserted - it is only certain autotext entries. If I delete and recreate the autotext entry that it hangs on, then I can insert the autotext entry without any problem. These are autotext entries stored in a particular template. I will try Safe Mode and see if that particular template functions in Safe Mode (if it doesn't then Safe Mode is not an option) and whether the same autotext entry freezes Word while in Safe Mode. MarieJ "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi ?B?Q2hlc3RlcjE=?=, I am using trying to use Autotext in Word 2003, but every time I try to insert the autotext Word stops responding. Can anyone help me stop this happening???? If you start Word in Safe Mode (hold down CTRL), does the problem go away while you're in Safe Mode? (Note: any AutoText entries you've created won't be available, but the default ones should be there) Is the problem happening with all autoText, or only ones you've created? If the latter, are the problem entries stored in a particular template? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Autotext - Word 2003
Hi ?B?TWFyaWVK?=,
This is happening to us as well. It doesn't hang every time any autotext is inserted - it is only certain autotext entries. If I delete and recreate the autotext entry that it hangs on, then I can insert the autotext entry without any problem. These are autotext entries stored in a particular template. It's possible that this particular template is damaged. Given this problem, I'd try recreating the template (from a "clean" Normal.dot). You should be able to use Tools/Template and Addins/Organizer to copy across the AutoText entries and any toolbars, styles, or macros. Text can be transferred by copying everything EXCEPT the last paragraph mark. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Hi ?B?TWFyaWVK?=,
Opening Word in Safe Mode does not let the user open the document. We use a Interwoven's document management system. Any more ideas? We're about to reimage her and give her a brand new profile just as a last resort (and the user is tapping her toe telling us to take care of this "once and for all". Don't you just love it!) Other users work in the same documents and do not have this problem. Given the circumstances (Word's processes are interlaced with another product), and that things are working normally for everyone else, a new profile might not be a bad idea. If that gives a lot of work, the one thing you might try before going this route is renaming her NORMAL.DOT template before starting Word. If Normal.dot is damaged, this could well be causing problems when inserting AutoText. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Autotext - Word 2003
I have just found out that the original Autotext was created in Word 2000 or
even earlier, and I think that it may be a compatibility issue is there any way around this?? -- Regards Clair "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi ?B?Q2hlc3RlcjE=?=, I am using trying to use Autotext in Word 2003, but every time I try to insert the autotext Word stops responding. Can anyone help me stop this happening???? If you start Word in Safe Mode (hold down CTRL), does the problem go away while you're in Safe Mode? (Note: any AutoText entries you've created won't be available, but the default ones should be there) Is the problem happening with all autoText, or only ones you've created? If the latter, are the problem entries stored in a particular template? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Autotext - Word 2003
AutoText is stored in templates. Which template is it in? Does this happen
with all AutoText or only one entry or only ones that you have created? -- 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. "Chester1" wrote in message ... I have just found out that the original Autotext was created in Word 2000 or even earlier, and I think that it may be a compatibility issue is there any way around this?? -- Regards Clair "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi ?B?Q2hlc3RlcjE=?=, I am using trying to use Autotext in Word 2003, but every time I try to insert the autotext Word stops responding. Can anyone help me stop this happening???? If you start Word in Safe Mode (hold down CTRL), does the problem go away while you're in Safe Mode? (Note: any AutoText entries you've created won't be available, but the default ones should be there) Is the problem happening with all autoText, or only ones you've created? If the latter, are the problem entries stored in a particular template? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Autotext - Word 2003
Here is what we have discovered. We had already tried replacing normal.dot.
We can't replace the template - it is provided by a third-party who unfortunately doesn't have time to look at the problem. It appeared the user froze when typing about the 4th character of what was an existing autotext entry. I unchecked Autocorrect Options, Autotext, Show AutoComplete suggestions. Once I did that, she stopped freezing. So it is something going on with her computer when Word attempts to show the autocomplete suggestion. She could care less about seeing the autocomplete suggestion and is just happy not be be freezing anymore. I'm wondering if lowering her hardware acceleration might have resolved it too. We automatically lower the hardware acceleration on our image so graphics display correctly in Word documents, but I noticed on her PC, we had not lowered it. That would explain why her secretary and others don't have the same problem, because I believe the show autocomplete suggestion checkbox is checked as a default on our image. We're going to test it, but we're letting the user cool down a little before we do that. MarieJ "Chester1" wrote: I have just found out that the original Autotext was created in Word 2000 or even earlier, and I think that it may be a compatibility issue is there any way around this?? -- Regards Clair "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi ?B?Q2hlc3RlcjE=?=, I am using trying to use Autotext in Word 2003, but every time I try to insert the autotext Word stops responding. Can anyone help me stop this happening???? If you start Word in Safe Mode (hold down CTRL), does the problem go away while you're in Safe Mode? (Note: any AutoText entries you've created won't be available, but the default ones should be there) Is the problem happening with all autoText, or only ones you've created? If the latter, are the problem entries stored in a particular template? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Autotext - Word 2003
Dear Charles
The autotext is in the normal.dot and it happens with all autotext new or old. -- Regards Clair "Charles Kenyon" wrote: AutoText is stored in templates. Which template is it in? Does this happen with all AutoText or only one entry or only ones that you have created? -- 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. "Chester1" wrote in message ... I have just found out that the original Autotext was created in Word 2000 or even earlier, and I think that it may be a compatibility issue is there any way around this?? -- Regards Clair "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi ?B?Q2hlc3RlcjE=?=, I am using trying to use Autotext in Word 2003, but every time I try to insert the autotext Word stops responding. Can anyone help me stop this happening???? If you start Word in Safe Mode (hold down CTRL), does the problem go away while you're in Safe Mode? (Note: any AutoText entries you've created won't be available, but the default ones should be there) Is the problem happening with all autoText, or only ones you've created? If the latter, are the problem entries stored in a particular template? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Dear Marie
Please can you tell me how I would go about lowering the hardware acceleration??? -- Regards Clair "MarieJ" wrote: Here is what we have discovered. We had already tried replacing normal.dot. We can't replace the template - it is provided by a third-party who unfortunately doesn't have time to look at the problem. It appeared the user froze when typing about the 4th character of what was an existing autotext entry. I unchecked Autocorrect Options, Autotext, Show AutoComplete suggestions. Once I did that, she stopped freezing. So it is something going on with her computer when Word attempts to show the autocomplete suggestion. She could care less about seeing the autocomplete suggestion and is just happy not be be freezing anymore. I'm wondering if lowering her hardware acceleration might have resolved it too. We automatically lower the hardware acceleration on our image so graphics display correctly in Word documents, but I noticed on her PC, we had not lowered it. That would explain why her secretary and others don't have the same problem, because I believe the show autocomplete suggestion checkbox is checked as a default on our image. We're going to test it, but we're letting the user cool down a little before we do that. MarieJ "Chester1" wrote: I have just found out that the original Autotext was created in Word 2000 or even earlier, and I think that it may be a compatibility issue is there any way around this?? -- Regards Clair "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi ?B?Q2hlc3RlcjE=?=, I am using trying to use Autotext in Word 2003, but every time I try to insert the autotext Word stops responding. Can anyone help me stop this happening???? If you start Word in Safe Mode (hold down CTRL), does the problem go away while you're in Safe Mode? (Note: any AutoText entries you've created won't be available, but the default ones should be there) Is the problem happening with all autoText, or only ones you've created? If the latter, are the problem entries stored in a particular template? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Autotext - Word 2003
Right-click on the Desktop and choose Properties. Click the Settings tab,
Advanced, Troubleshoot. You'll see a little scale where you can lower it from None to Full. We have to put ours on the third spot (with None being the first spot) in order for Graphics to appear correctly in Word documents. The description on that spot is "Disable all DirectDraw and Direct3D accelerations...". We haven't had any ill effects in any other software due to lowering it. MarieJ "MarieJ" wrote: Here is what we have discovered. We had already tried replacing normal.dot. We can't replace the template - it is provided by a third-party who unfortunately doesn't have time to look at the problem. It appeared the user froze when typing about the 4th character of what was an existing autotext entry. I unchecked Autocorrect Options, Autotext, Show AutoComplete suggestions. Once I did that, she stopped freezing. So it is something going on with her computer when Word attempts to show the autocomplete suggestion. She could care less about seeing the autocomplete suggestion and is just happy not be be freezing anymore. I'm wondering if lowering her hardware acceleration might have resolved it too. We automatically lower the hardware acceleration on our image so graphics display correctly in Word documents, but I noticed on her PC, we had not lowered it. That would explain why her secretary and others don't have the same problem, because I believe the show autocomplete suggestion checkbox is checked as a default on our image. We're going to test it, but we're letting the user cool down a little before we do that. MarieJ "Chester1" wrote: I have just found out that the original Autotext was created in Word 2000 or even earlier, and I think that it may be a compatibility issue is there any way around this?? -- Regards Clair "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi ?B?Q2hlc3RlcjE=?=, I am using trying to use Autotext in Word 2003, but every time I try to insert the autotext Word stops responding. Can anyone help me stop this happening???? If you start Word in Safe Mode (hold down CTRL), does the problem go away while you're in Safe Mode? (Note: any AutoText entries you've created won't be available, but the default ones should be there) Is the problem happening with all autoText, or only ones you've created? If the latter, are the problem entries stored in a particular template? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Your third party is incompetent if they replaced your normal.dot. Word makes
its own normal.dot. It should never be a shared template. If other users are using it without problem, though, try replacing this user's version with one that is working for others. -- 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. "MarieJ" wrote in message ... Here is what we have discovered. We had already tried replacing normal.dot. We can't replace the template - it is provided by a third-party who unfortunately doesn't have time to look at the problem. It appeared the user froze when typing about the 4th character of what was an existing autotext entry. I unchecked Autocorrect Options, Autotext, Show AutoComplete suggestions. Once I did that, she stopped freezing. So it is something going on with her computer when Word attempts to show the autocomplete suggestion. She could care less about seeing the autocomplete suggestion and is just happy not be be freezing anymore. I'm wondering if lowering her hardware acceleration might have resolved it too. We automatically lower the hardware acceleration on our image so graphics display correctly in Word documents, but I noticed on her PC, we had not lowered it. That would explain why her secretary and others don't have the same problem, because I believe the show autocomplete suggestion checkbox is checked as a default on our image. We're going to test it, but we're letting the user cool down a little before we do that. MarieJ "Chester1" wrote: I have just found out that the original Autotext was created in Word 2000 or even earlier, and I think that it may be a compatibility issue is there any way around this?? -- Regards Clair "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi ?B?Q2hlc3RlcjE=?=, I am using trying to use Autotext in Word 2003, but every time I try to insert the autotext Word stops responding. Can anyone help me stop this happening???? If you start Word in Safe Mode (hold down CTRL), does the problem go away while you're in Safe Mode? (Note: any AutoText entries you've created won't be available, but the default ones should be there) Is the problem happening with all autoText, or only ones you've created? If the latter, are the problem entries stored in a particular template? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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No, the third party did not replace the normal.dot. I was just answering two
posts containing suggestions. The first suggestion was to replace the user's normal.dot, which we did. The second suggestion was that the document was created based on a corrupt template. That is the template that is provided by a third party. I hope that's clear this time. "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Your third party is incompetent if they replaced your normal.dot. Word makes its own normal.dot. It should never be a shared template. If other users are using it without problem, though, try replacing this user's version with one that is working for others. -- 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. "MarieJ" wrote in message ... Here is what we have discovered. We had already tried replacing normal.dot. We can't replace the template - it is provided by a third-party who unfortunately doesn't have time to look at the problem. It appeared the user froze when typing about the 4th character of what was an existing autotext entry. I unchecked Autocorrect Options, Autotext, Show AutoComplete suggestions. Once I did that, she stopped freezing. So it is something going on with her computer when Word attempts to show the autocomplete suggestion. She could care less about seeing the autocomplete suggestion and is just happy not be be freezing anymore. I'm wondering if lowering her hardware acceleration might have resolved it too. We automatically lower the hardware acceleration on our image so graphics display correctly in Word documents, but I noticed on her PC, we had not lowered it. That would explain why her secretary and others don't have the same problem, because I believe the show autocomplete suggestion checkbox is checked as a default on our image. We're going to test it, but we're letting the user cool down a little before we do that. MarieJ "Chester1" wrote: I have just found out that the original Autotext was created in Word 2000 or even earlier, and I think that it may be a compatibility issue is there any way around this?? -- Regards Clair "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi ?B?Q2hlc3RlcjE=?=, I am using trying to use Autotext in Word 2003, but every time I try to insert the autotext Word stops responding. Can anyone help me stop this happening???? If you start Word in Safe Mode (hold down CTRL), does the problem go away while you're in Safe Mode? (Note: any AutoText entries you've created won't be available, but the default ones should be there) Is the problem happening with all autoText, or only ones you've created? If the latter, are the problem entries stored in a particular template? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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