It is simply an indication that there are no autotexts defined in the header
footer paragraph styles - often a result of saving a document as normal.dot.
Rename normal.dot to oldnormal.dot to revert to defaults.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Haz wrote:
In my normal.dot, the Header/Footer Insert Autotext option is grayed
out. Also in quite a few, if not most, of my existing documents, it
turns out.
Any thoughts on how to get it back?
Thank you

Haz