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Autocorrect will not save file in Word 2007
I keep receiving a message saying "Your Autocorrect file could not be saved.
It is either a ready only or you do not have permission to modify the file." So.... therefore, after trying to work around this, autocorrect entries work only while I have Word open and when I close it and try to use those entries again, they do not work, nor are they there. any help would be appreciated. thanks Louise H. |
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Autocorrect will not save file in Word 2007
Did you check to see if your AutoCorrect file was read-only or check
permissions for it? Go to Start/Run and type: %AppData% to open your Application Data folder. Then navigate to \Microsoft\Office and check your *.acl files. If you are using English the file name is: MSO1033.acl Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "LouiseH" wrote in message ... I keep receiving a message saying "Your Autocorrect file could not be saved. It is either a ready only or you do not have permission to modify the file." So.... therefore, after trying to work around this, autocorrect entries work only while I have Word open and when I close it and try to use those entries again, they do not work, nor are they there. any help would be appreciated. thanks Louise H. |
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Autocorrect will not save file in Word 2007
Louise - did you solve this problem eventually? I have got the same message
- it mentions MSO3081.acl. I have used Beth's advice to navigate to the file, but it is not clicked read-only and all the permissions seem to be OK. Everytime I hit space bar or tab or any unusual symbol, this error message comes up. "LouiseH" wrote: I keep receiving a message saying "Your Autocorrect file could not be saved. It is either a ready only or you do not have permission to modify the file." So.... therefore, after trying to work around this, autocorrect entries work only while I have Word open and when I close it and try to use those entries again, they do not work, nor are they there. any help would be appreciated. thanks Louise H. |
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Autocorrect will not save file in Word 2007
Did you try creating a new profile?
"SuziL" wrote in message ... Louise - did you solve this problem eventually? I have got the same message - it mentions MSO3081.acl. I have used Beth's advice to navigate to the file, but it is not clicked read-only and all the permissions seem to be OK. Everytime I hit space bar or tab or any unusual symbol, this error message comes up. "LouiseH" wrote: I keep receiving a message saying "Your Autocorrect file could not be saved. It is either a ready only or you do not have permission to modify the file." So.... therefore, after trying to work around this, autocorrect entries work only while I have Word open and when I close it and try to use those entries again, they do not work, nor are they there. any help would be appreciated. thanks Louise H. |
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Quoting from Jay Freedman:
I suspect you have one or more corrupted entries in your list. I'll suggest again exporting the autocorrect list, using the macro from http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...utocorrect.htm. Before you re-import it, find and rename the ACL file that holds the unformatted entries. If I can assume from your handle that you're using the Australian English language setting, then the proper file will be named MSO3081.ACL, in a folder whose location is described in the article. Then rename Normal.dot (or whatever other template contains your autocorrects), restart Word, and reload the exported entries. If that solves the problem, use the Organizer to copy over any other customizations from the old Normal.dot. Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org "SuziL" wrote in message ... Louise - did you solve this problem eventually? I have got the same message - it mentions MSO3081.acl. I have used Beth's advice to navigate to the file, but it is not clicked read-only and all the permissions seem to be OK. Everytime I hit space bar or tab or any unusual symbol, this error message comes up. "LouiseH" wrote: I keep receiving a message saying "Your Autocorrect file could not be saved. It is either a ready only or you do not have permission to modify the file." So.... therefore, after trying to work around this, autocorrect entries work only while I have Word open and when I close it and try to use those entries again, they do not work, nor are they there. any help would be appreciated. thanks Louise H. |
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Autocorrect will not save file in Word 2007
The solution, of course, is to restore the user's write permissions. A
legible error message would've saved me a lot of time tracking this problem down. :-) A quote from 2003 issues and 2000 issues: "I think I've found a bug, or at least a Very Cryptic Error Message (TM), in Microsoft Office 2003. Scenario: for whatever reason, the current user does not have write permissions for the AutoCorrect file "%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\Office\MSO1033.acl". (Or substitute your own locale ID if it's not 1033, U.S.) Then that user attempts to add, update, or delete an AutoCorrect entry in any Office application that uses the AutoCorrect module (e.g., Word and Excel.) A very cryptic Unicode error message results. On one test machine, the error message was several rows of boxes. On another (with better Unicode support, I guess,) most of the boxes were replaced with Kanji-looking characters. I'm not sure if it was Japanese, Chinese, Korean, or what. I found a couple newsgroup posts from people that were probably experiencing the same issue. See: http://tinyurl.com/aaa5l http://tinyurl.com/advhh The solution, of course, is to restore the user's write permissions. A legible error message would've saved me a lot of time tracking this problem down. :-)" "SuziL" wrote in message ... Louise - did you solve this problem eventually? I have got the same message - it mentions MSO3081.acl. I have used Beth's advice to navigate to the file, but it is not clicked read-only and all the permissions seem to be OK. Everytime I hit space bar or tab or any unusual symbol, this error message comes up. "LouiseH" wrote: I keep receiving a message saying "Your Autocorrect file could not be saved. It is either a ready only or you do not have permission to modify the file." So.... therefore, after trying to work around this, autocorrect entries work only while I have Word open and when I close it and try to use those entries again, they do not work, nor are they there. any help would be appreciated. thanks Louise H. |
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Autocorrect will not save file in Word 2007
Thank you for your patience, Summer. Yes, I have just created a new user
account, transferred one of the problem documents over and opened it and the problem does seem to have gone away. Keep your fingers crossed. FYI, the full error message is: Your Autocorrect file C/users/..../AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/office/MSO3081.acl could not be saved. The file may be read-only, or you may not have permission to modify the file. "Summer" wrote: Did you try creating a new profile? "SuziL" wrote in message ... Louise - did you solve this problem eventually? I have got the same message - it mentions MSO3081.acl. I have used Beth's advice to navigate to the file, but it is not clicked read-only and all the permissions seem to be OK. Everytime I hit space bar or tab or any unusual symbol, this error message comes up. "LouiseH" wrote: I keep receiving a message saying "Your Autocorrect file could not be saved. It is either a ready only or you do not have permission to modify the file." So.... therefore, after trying to work around this, autocorrect entries work only while I have Word open and when I close it and try to use those entries again, they do not work, nor are they there. any help would be appreciated. thanks Louise H. |
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Autocorrect will not save file in Word 2007
There is an answer to this problem . You must bold what you want to use in
your autocorrect, then use Alt F3. You will get a box that comes up. Use the drop down box and change quick parts to autotext. AFter that rename your autocorrect name to what ever you want it. then click okay. Then, when you want to use that autocorrect entry type the quickword for it and click F3. They no longer allow you to just use abbreviations without using the F3 key because there were a lot fo complaints about random words ending up in documents that made no sense. Hope this helps. It was wonderful to find this out. LouiseH "Summer" wrote: Quoting from Jay Freedman: I suspect you have one or more corrupted entries in your list. I'll suggest again exporting the autocorrect list, using the macro from http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...utocorrect.htm. Before you re-import it, find and rename the ACL file that holds the unformatted entries. If I can assume from your handle that you're using the Australian English language setting, then the proper file will be named MSO3081.ACL, in a folder whose location is described in the article. Then rename Normal.dot (or whatever other template contains your autocorrects), restart Word, and reload the exported entries. If that solves the problem, use the Organizer to copy over any other customizations from the old Normal.dot. Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org "SuziL" wrote in message ... Louise - did you solve this problem eventually? I have got the same message - it mentions MSO3081.acl. I have used Beth's advice to navigate to the file, but it is not clicked read-only and all the permissions seem to be OK. Everytime I hit space bar or tab or any unusual symbol, this error message comes up. "LouiseH" wrote: I keep receiving a message saying "Your Autocorrect file could not be saved. It is either a ready only or you do not have permission to modify the file." So.... therefore, after trying to work around this, autocorrect entries work only while I have Word open and when I close it and try to use those entries again, they do not work, nor are they there. any help would be appreciated. thanks Louise H. |
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Louise, I'm afraid you've gotten some misinformation there.
When you use Alt+F3 to store an entry, you're changing it from an AutoCorrect entry to an AutoText entry. Those are two similar but different features of Word, and they're stored in different places. AutoCorrect still does replacements immediately as you type the entry in the document. For example, 'teh' is instantly replaced by 'the' because it's an AutoCorrect entry. You can still store entries from the right-click menu when you correct a misspelling, or through the Word Options dialog. AutoText in versions before Word 2007 would prompt you to press Enter (or Tab) to replace an entry, although you could always press F3. The prompting is what was removed for Word 2007, and the reason has nothing to do with 'random' replacements -- it's because AutoText was made part of the new Building Blocks feature, and MS was of the (IMHO incorrect) opinion that they couldn't provide automatic prompting for AutoText without getting tangled up in the other parts of Building Blocks (such as cover pages). -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 03:58:05 -0700, LouiseH wrote: There is an answer to this problem . You must bold what you want to use in your autocorrect, then use Alt F3. You will get a box that comes up. Use the drop down box and change quick parts to autotext. AFter that rename your autocorrect name to what ever you want it. then click okay. Then, when you want to use that autocorrect entry type the quickword for it and click F3. They no longer allow you to just use abbreviations without using the F3 key because there were a lot fo complaints about random words ending up in documents that made no sense. Hope this helps. It was wonderful to find this out. LouiseH "Summer" wrote: Quoting from Jay Freedman: I suspect you have one or more corrupted entries in your list. I'll suggest again exporting the autocorrect list, using the macro from http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...utocorrect.htm. Before you re-import it, find and rename the ACL file that holds the unformatted entries. If I can assume from your handle that you're using the Australian English language setting, then the proper file will be named MSO3081.ACL, in a folder whose location is described in the article. Then rename Normal.dot (or whatever other template contains your autocorrects), restart Word, and reload the exported entries. If that solves the problem, use the Organizer to copy over any other customizations from the old Normal.dot. Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org "SuziL" wrote in message ... Louise - did you solve this problem eventually? I have got the same message - it mentions MSO3081.acl. I have used Beth's advice to navigate to the file, but it is not clicked read-only and all the permissions seem to be OK. Everytime I hit space bar or tab or any unusual symbol, this error message comes up. "LouiseH" wrote: I keep receiving a message saying "Your Autocorrect file could not be saved. It is either a ready only or you do not have permission to modify the file." So.... therefore, after trying to work around this, autocorrect entries work only while I have Word open and when I close it and try to use those entries again, they do not work, nor are they there. any help would be appreciated. thanks Louise H. |
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