I'll try to make myself more clear:

When i open one of the text files (just an ordinary ascii file produced by
an OCR [TextBridge] program), and go to the Add-Inns window, I absolutely see
the Global Listing I am looking forie "Normal", which contains all of the
macros I'm attempting to execute. I know they "weren't there" because if I
press "Alt-C", the centering command {+cl } specific to the type of coded
file I'm creating does not appear. From that point, if I go to
Tools/Macro/Macros, I do indeed see all of the macros listed, and of course I
can invoke (run) them from that listing. However, if I go to the "Organizer"
button, I see on the right side, where it says: "In Normal" the four Macro
groups I use. On the left pane, at the top, it shows the text file in
question eg. 1000020202.001, with no macros listed. At this point, I usually
drag the four sets on the right side to the left side, return to my file and
at that point I can press Alt-c and the code +cl will appear. What I want to
do, is be able to simply call up that file and start coding without having to
load all the Macros as I've just described.

Not to muddy up the waters, but I am also not able to retain my choices for
the Auto text settings.

I have the feeling, I've given you way too much information, as I have a
tendency (albeit unintentional) to obfuscate.

sorry
rc

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

Here are a few things to look at:

- In Tools Templates & Add-Ins, can you see the name of the template
you put in the Startup folder? Does it have a check next to it? If
either answer is no, what is the exact path to the template?

- How did you determine that the macros "weren't there"? Do they show
up in the Tools Macro Macros dialog? Or were you going by some
other method?

- Use File Open to open the template from the Startup folder. Now
open the macro editor, and expand the template's icon in the Project
pane. Can you see the macros? If so, can you run them with F5?

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:41:03 -0800, "cannonball"
wrote:

thanks for getting right back to me. The macros I'm trying to use are already
in "Normal" but just to make sure I opened the template and saved it in
word's startup then opened one of my text files and they were still not
there. Any other suggestions??

thanks
cb

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

cannonball wrote:
I use an extensive set of macros for a particular task. When I open an
existing plain text file the macros are gone. I usually go to
tools/macros/organize.. and transfer the four macro files to the new
document. That always seems to work, but if I close the file and
reopen it they are gone again. I do not want to save as a word
document because further processing requires a text only document.

There is no place in a plain-text file to store any macros -- that's part of
the definition of "plain-text". When you choose that file type in the Save
As dialog, Word throws away anything that isn't text.

Put your macros in a global template, that is, one stored in Word's Startup
folder (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...latesStore.htm).
Then the macros will be available in all your documents, including
plain-text ones.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org