Margaret, thanks for replying.

We are entering the full autotext entry in the 'enter autotext entries here'
part of the dialogue. I think it is at this point it is going wrong - but
has definately worked previously. We then give this text a code (4 or 5
letters) using Templates & Add ins/organiser. This is what worked 2 years
ago (I think) on the same machine & software (Win 98, Office 2000) - no
changes as far as I'm aware (may have downloaded an update). This original
template still works using the original autotext; however, trying to add a
new autotext entry does not.

Terry


"Margaret Aldis" wrote in
message ...
How are you "entering" the text? To add an AutoText, you select the
content
first (in the document), open AutoText dialog with Insert AutoText
AutoText ..., then type in the name (your shorthand code) for the
AutoText.
The content can be very long and complex (I don't know limits and have
never
tripped over any) but the name you type is limited to 255 chars I think.

As an aside, make sure also that you use the AutoText dialog and not the
short "New" dialog as you will need to select the template to store the
AutoText in.

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"Terry" wrote in message
...
Certainly not a new user but don't know where to post this one (Please
tell
me where may be better).

Some time ago we prepared a Word 2000 template using a table and
Autotext.
Sentences (from a different document) were added to autotext (some were
700+
characters) and each given a code. Typing the code successfully
inserted
the text into the table (of the template and 'new' documents). This
template still works OK on Word 97, 2000, XP.

We are now trying to set up new templates on the same basis. However,
we
cannot enter more than 255 characters (on any version) into autotext.
What
has gone wrong/are we doing differently. Please help before I lose all
my
hair!!!

If the original was a 'quirk', any other ideas for automatically
entering
text using a code?

Many thanks

Terry