If you are using dial-up, you would be better accessing the server directly,
so you can work off line - http://www.gmayor.com/MSNews.htm

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wayUpNorth wrote:
Thanks for the clarification Graham - I'll check those links. I've
got shift+file|saveAll working - kind of. I'm getting off the
original topic for this thread though, so maybe I'll start a new one
when I have more details.

My dial-up connection is the pits and I've been all evening trying to
get back in. You guys and gals on this forum are really helpful - and
quick to reply. Thanks so much.

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

You have not read
http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm very
closely if you are looking for PDFMaker.dot with Acrobat 7. This
version does not use a template add-in, but a COM add-in. If that
add-in is present, it inhibits the ability to save changes to
normal.dot.

Acrobat 7 is not unique in this behaviour. Other add-ins can also
cause similar problems. Check what add-ins you have running
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...sInstalled.htm
and temporarily remove them.

See also http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm and
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...peningWord.htm

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wayUpNorth wrote:
Yes, I checked the link and his answers to several posts I do have
Acrobat 7. I thought A-ha that's it, but it doesn't fix my problem.
"SHIFT+File then Save All" doesn't update my normal template - and
I know it's the running normal template because I see the
~$normal.dot temp file there while word is open.
PDFMaker.dot is not in my selected word startup folder. Searching
system and hidden files on my HD can't find pdfmaker.dot either. I
installed Adobe CS2 - did they change anything in Acrobat 7? My
PDFMaker 7 toolbar in Word 2003 stays off, (or on - whatever I set
it) between sessions even without changing the normal template.

I'm running Spybot S&D teatimer - could that be messing me up? I've
installed Office 2003 SP1, but not SP2, although Win XP is SP2 - I'm
groping in the dark a bit...

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

If you have Acrobat 7 installed, it's the culprit. See the last
section of
http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm

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Words into Type
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"wayUpNorth" wrote in
message ...
I've found the answer to my first problem, thanks to Daiya,
Suzanne, and other's previous answers to other questions. My
Normal template is not saving changes when I quit word. Now I
know why formatted autocorrect entries didn't persist on my main
computer. Now to find out why...

I may not bother with the backup/restore macro - easier to teach
people how to add the half-dozen aboriginal place names to
autoCorrect manually from a formatted file I'll give them.

"Daiya Mitchell" wrote:

For WinWord, I think there is an alternate macro. I've not
experimented with this at all, but it might be worth trying. MS
appears to have updated their macro since the MVPs wrote one to
supplement the official deficiencies, so this may not help.

To save and exchange AutoCorrect across computers or
re-installations:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...utocorrect.htm

Thanks for the info re this working on MacWord. Greatly
appreciated!

If it still doesn't work, you might experiment with creating some
custom AutoText toolbars as an alternate method.
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AutoText.htm


On 12/3/05 1:31 PM, "wayUpNorth" wrote:

I've added some entries to my AutoCorrect list that require the
"formatted text" option in the "With" field because they require
characters from a special font I've created. These entries
appear at the end of the "AutoCorrect Backup Document" with the
RTF flag set to "True², however if I close Word and re-open it,
those entries are gone. When I try to restore it, those entries
with formatted text copy back into the template, but they
disappear as soon as Word is closed and re-started.

Then I tried moving it to another computer using the
backup/restore macro in the ³support.dot² template. There, the
formatted entries persist but the unformatted ones are lost.
Next I moved it to a Mac, surprise the restore macro worked and
both formatted and unformatted entries persisted in Word 2004.

The font is for aboriginal languages in northern Canada that are
too small to receive support from Microsoft * the fonts are used
widely by government and education. The autocorrect entries I'm
trying to add are aboriginal place names which have become
official. Some require only a grave accent so I¹ve put them in
as unformatted because the grave vowels exist in most fonts.
Other place names require special characters not included in
standard fonts so those are formatted. I want to use
AutoCorrect so users don¹t have to install the entire keyboard
for the aboriginal font just to type the occasional place name.
They can just type the place names in standard English and
AutoCorrect will change it to the official spelling complete
with special characters.

How can I get the autocorrect list to apply consistently and
reliably? The fonts are already installed on the various
systems. I¹ve tried adding the place names to the dictionary;
I¹ve tired highlighting them and setting them as English
language. It still puzzles me. This needs to be implemented
across an entire department with Word 2003 & Word 2004 running
on XP Proand OSX.


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

AutoCorrect entries are stored in .acl files by language. They
are available in all Office documents (in Word, Excel, and
PowerPoint) formatted with the corresponding language.
Formatted AutoCorrect entries are stored in Normal.dot and are
available to all Word documents.

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"lm2942" wrote in message
...
I have used AutoCorrect for years and not had this problem.

I have added abbreviations to AutoCorrect and it works fine as
long as I am still in that document.

If I start another document, then the text is not replaced
when I type the abbreviation. I go to add it again and the
abbreviation is already in AutoCorrect. I go back to the
document, and then the abbreviation works.

Are the AutoCorrect entries not all stored in one place so
they are always accessible no matter what document I am in?



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