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"All Entries" for auto text are missing (Word 2002)
A few days back when this problem arrived I did the following; closed Word,
search for the file normal.dot I rename it to Normal.mjd.dot then start Word again. I then probably made a few mistakes in trying to resolve the problem. To day I have; close Word, search for the file normal.dot I found several templates with different names I selected normal and rename it to normal.dot because there was no entry with that name, then started Word again. When I open a new word document I find I will need to customize the toolbar and the auto text standard entries are there and only one entry in normal which I added yesterday. When I open some of the documents that I was working out of yesterday the toolbar is customized but with some double entries in the standard auto text and full normal entries in auto text. This seems to be a repeat of the problem, please advise. -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I suspect you lost your normal entries because you tried to use a self-created template as Normal.dot. Then perhaps you copied the AT entries to that template and loaded it as an add-in instead, after restoring Normal.dot, which would result in everything showing up twice. I would suggest that you rename Normal.dot (assuming you don't have too many customizations stored there) to get it back to its default condition. An AutoText toolbar in any document will now show all the default AutoText entries for a given style (All Entries for Normal style or any other that doesn't have specific ones). If you want to add custom AutoText entries, you can save them in Normal.dot, and they'll be displayed in all documents. Or you can save them to a separate template that you save in Word's Startup folder so it will be loaded as an add-in every time you start Word. The new entries in the add-in will be displayed along with the default entries on the AutoText menu. If you want them displayed only in documents based on a specific document template, save them in that specific template; they will be added to the entries in Normal.dot on the AutoText menu. If you want them to be available to documents based on more than one template (but not all documents), store them in a separate template that you load as an add-in as needed. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... Hello Suzanne, I have got my self into a muddle here, first, all my normal auto text were missing in the all entries and now when I open other word documents I find some entries have doubled with all of my normal entries and some with no normal entries, and my toolbars are different. Can you tell me the easiest way to get back to normality? -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: We seem to be more and more at cross purposes here. When I say "insertion point," I mean the blinking cursor in a document. When the cursor is in a Normal paragraph, you should see All Entries on an AutoText toolbar. You are clearly looking somewhere other than the document itself. Now, your reference to Normal.mjd.dot suggests that you are trying to replace Normal.dot with a global template of your own or add a global template based on Normal.dot. Note that any template based on Normal.dot will *not* include the AutoText entries that are in Normal.dot by default (see "WD2002: Styles and AutoText Are Not Copied to New Template Based on Normal.dot" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=291441). It will contain any AutoText entries that you have specifically saved to the new template (by choosing that template in the "Look in" box in Insert | AutoText | AutoText when creating the entries); they will be categorized by style. If you want Normal.mjd.dot to be loaded automatically when you start Word, you must put it in Word's Startup folder. Otherwise, you will have to go to Tools | Templates and Add-ins and check it manually every time you want it loaded. This is explained in http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...latesStore.htm, to which I believe I have previously referred you. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... Normal is inserted below "Document Template and Automatically update document styles" is ticked/checked (please explain your meaning of "insertion point") in the bottom section "Global templates and add-ins checked items are currently loaded" this box is unchecked and has Normal.mjd.dot (if I check this box normal appears in all entries with all my entries and my standard toolbar changes to my personal settings, but when I open a new word document or reopen this word document Normal.mjd.dot is not loaded even after Saving All . -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Apparently you are still looking in the Organizer. You should be in the document window. When the insertion point is in a paragraph in Normal style, your AutoText toolbar should be displaying All Entries. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message news 
Hello Suzanne, under the styles tab on the left side gives the name of the word document and the right side gives a name in Normal below this under Styles available in: is Normal.dot (Global Template) with the options on both sides to Close File and below that on the left says Description_________________ -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It should be displayed in the Styles box and the Styles and Formatting task pane when the paragraph is selected. Or use the Reveal Formatting task pane. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... Hello Suzanne, please can you direct me to find and identify the paragraph style at the insertion point -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Default Paragraph Font is a character style, not a paragraph style. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/DefParaFont.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... Hi, the highlighted style Default Paragraph Font via Organizer. -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Okay, so you have the AutoText toolbar displayed. What is the paragraph style at the insertion point? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... Hello Suzanne; I have "All Active Templates" in the Autocorrect dialog box. I am using all 3 toolbar options which has "All Entries" -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What template do you have selected for "Look in" in the AutoText dialog? Also, note that if the insertion point is in a paragraph for which specific AutoText entries are available, you'll see only those entries rather than all the entries. You should see all the entries if the paragraph is in Normal style, but they will be listed under the applicable styles (separate submenu for each); there is no All Entries menu item on the Insert | AutoText menu. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... "All Entries" for auto text are missing but they are still stored in the AutoText in the Autocorrect (Word 2002) how do I get them back into "All Entries"? Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson |
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"All Entries" for auto text are missing (Word 2002)
The facts have not changed from what I stated yesterday. You must let Word
create its own Normal.dot in order to have a working one. If you have another template that contains the same AutoText entries that is also loaded as a global template, then the entries will be repeated. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... A few days back when this problem arrived I did the following; closed Word, search for the file normal.dot I rename it to Normal.mjd.dot then start Word again. I then probably made a few mistakes in trying to resolve the problem. To day I have; close Word, search for the file normal.dot I found several templates with different names I selected normal and rename it to normal.dot because there was no entry with that name, then started Word again. When I open a new word document I find I will need to customize the toolbar and the auto text standard entries are there and only one entry in normal which I added yesterday. When I open some of the documents that I was working out of yesterday the toolbar is customized but with some double entries in the standard auto text and full normal entries in auto text. This seems to be a repeat of the problem, please advise. -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I suspect you lost your normal entries because you tried to use a self-created template as Normal.dot. Then perhaps you copied the AT entries to that template and loaded it as an add-in instead, after restoring Normal.dot, which would result in everything showing up twice. I would suggest that you rename Normal.dot (assuming you don't have too many customizations stored there) to get it back to its default condition. An AutoText toolbar in any document will now show all the default AutoText entries for a given style (All Entries for Normal style or any other that doesn't have specific ones). If you want to add custom AutoText entries, you can save them in Normal.dot, and they'll be displayed in all documents. Or you can save them to a separate template that you save in Word's Startup folder so it will be loaded as an add-in every time you start Word. The new entries in the add-in will be displayed along with the default entries on the AutoText menu. If you want them displayed only in documents based on a specific document template, save them in that specific template; they will be added to the entries in Normal.dot on the AutoText menu. If you want them to be available to documents based on more than one template (but not all documents), store them in a separate template that you load as an add-in as needed. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... Hello Suzanne, I have got my self into a muddle here, first, all my normal auto text were missing in the all entries and now when I open other word documents I find some entries have doubled with all of my normal entries and some with no normal entries, and my toolbars are different. Can you tell me the easiest way to get back to normality? -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: We seem to be more and more at cross purposes here. When I say "insertion point," I mean the blinking cursor in a document. When the cursor is in a Normal paragraph, you should see All Entries on an AutoText toolbar. You are clearly looking somewhere other than the document itself. Now, your reference to Normal.mjd.dot suggests that you are trying to replace Normal.dot with a global template of your own or add a global template based on Normal.dot. Note that any template based on Normal.dot will *not* include the AutoText entries that are in Normal.dot by default (see "WD2002: Styles and AutoText Are Not Copied to New Template Based on Normal.dot" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=291441). It will contain any AutoText entries that you have specifically saved to the new template (by choosing that template in the "Look in" box in Insert | AutoText | AutoText when creating the entries); they will be categorized by style. If you want Normal.mjd.dot to be loaded automatically when you start Word, you must put it in Word's Startup folder. Otherwise, you will have to go to Tools | Templates and Add-ins and check it manually every time you want it loaded. This is explained in http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...latesStore.htm, to which I believe I have previously referred you. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... Normal is inserted below "Document Template and Automatically update document styles" is ticked/checked (please explain your meaning of "insertion point") in the bottom section "Global templates and add-ins checked items are currently loaded" this box is unchecked and has Normal.mjd.dot (if I check this box normal appears in all entries with all my entries and my standard toolbar changes to my personal settings, but when I open a new word document or reopen this word document Normal.mjd.dot is not loaded even after Saving All . -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Apparently you are still looking in the Organizer. You should be in the document window. When the insertion point is in a paragraph in Normal style, your AutoText toolbar should be displaying All Entries. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message news
Hello Suzanne, under the styles tab on the left side gives the name of the word document and the right side gives a name in Normal below this under Styles available in: is Normal.dot (Global Template) with the options on both sides to Close File and below that on the left says Description_________________ -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It should be displayed in the Styles box and the Styles and Formatting task pane when the paragraph is selected. Or use the Reveal Formatting task pane. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... Hello Suzanne, please can you direct me to find and identify the paragraph style at the insertion point -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Default Paragraph Font is a character style, not a paragraph style. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/DefParaFont.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... Hi, the highlighted style Default Paragraph Font via Organizer. -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Okay, so you have the AutoText toolbar displayed. What is the paragraph style at the insertion point? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... Hello Suzanne; I have "All Active Templates" in the Autocorrect dialog box. I am using all 3 toolbar options which has "All Entries" -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What template do you have selected for "Look in" in the AutoText dialog? Also, note that if the insertion point is in a paragraph for which specific AutoText entries are available, you'll see only those entries rather than all the entries. You should see all the entries if the paragraph is in Normal style, but they will be listed under the applicable styles (separate submenu for each); there is no All Entries menu item on the Insert | AutoText menu. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... "All Entries" for auto text are missing but they are still stored in the AutoText in the Autocorrect (Word 2002) how do I get them back into "All Entries"? Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson |
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"All Entries" for auto text are missing (Word 2002)
Hi Michael,
It seems there is some confusion here. Can I first confirm what the problem is? If I understand, you have some customized AutoText entries - somewhere, you are not sure where. And you are not seeing what you expect to see under "All Entries" on the AutoText toolbar. You also have some toolbar customizations - deliberately or accidentally, I'm not sure. And you are not not seeing the toolbars you expect. The behaviour varies depending on the document you have open at the time. Am I right? -- Enjoy, Tony "Michael" wrote in message ... A few days back when this problem arrived I did the following; closed Word, search for the file normal.dot I rename it to Normal.mjd.dot then start Word again. I then probably made a few mistakes in trying to resolve the problem. To day I have; close Word, search for the file normal.dot I found several templates with different names I selected normal and rename it to normal.dot because there was no entry with that name, then started Word again. When I open a new word document I find I will need to customize the toolbar and the auto text standard entries are there and only one entry in normal which I added yesterday. When I open some of the documents that I was working out of yesterday the toolbar is customized but with some double entries in the standard auto text and full normal entries in auto text. This seems to be a repeat of the problem, please advise. -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I suspect you lost your normal entries because you tried to use a self-created template as Normal.dot. Then perhaps you copied the AT entries to that template and loaded it as an add-in instead, after restoring Normal.dot, which would result in everything showing up twice. I would suggest that you rename Normal.dot (assuming you don't have too many customizations stored there) to get it back to its default condition. An AutoText toolbar in any document will now show all the default AutoText entries for a given style (All Entries for Normal style or any other that doesn't have specific ones). If you want to add custom AutoText entries, you can save them in Normal.dot, and they'll be displayed in all documents. Or you can save them to a separate template that you save in Word's Startup folder so it will be loaded as an add-in every time you start Word. The new entries in the add-in will be displayed along with the default entries on the AutoText menu. If you want them displayed only in documents based on a specific document template, save them in that specific template; they will be added to the entries in Normal.dot on the AutoText menu. If you want them to be available to documents based on more than one template (but not all documents), store them in a separate template that you load as an add-in as needed. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... Hello Suzanne, I have got my self into a muddle here, first, all my normal auto text were missing in the all entries and now when I open other word documents I find some entries have doubled with all of my normal entries and some with no normal entries, and my toolbars are different. Can you tell me the easiest way to get back to normality? -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: We seem to be more and more at cross purposes here. When I say "insertion point," I mean the blinking cursor in a document. When the cursor is in a Normal paragraph, you should see All Entries on an AutoText toolbar. You are clearly looking somewhere other than the document itself. Now, your reference to Normal.mjd.dot suggests that you are trying to replace Normal.dot with a global template of your own or add a global template based on Normal.dot. Note that any template based on Normal.dot will *not* include the AutoText entries that are in Normal.dot by default (see "WD2002: Styles and AutoText Are Not Copied to New Template Based on Normal.dot" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=291441). It will contain any AutoText entries that you have specifically saved to the new template (by choosing that template in the "Look in" box in Insert | AutoText | AutoText when creating the entries); they will be categorized by style. If you want Normal.mjd.dot to be loaded automatically when you start Word, you must put it in Word's Startup folder. Otherwise, you will have to go to Tools | Templates and Add-ins and check it manually every time you want it loaded. This is explained in http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...latesStore.htm, to which I believe I have previously referred you. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... Normal is inserted below "Document Template and Automatically update document styles" is ticked/checked (please explain your meaning of "insertion point") in the bottom section "Global templates and add-ins checked items are currently loaded" this box is unchecked and has Normal.mjd.dot (if I check this box normal appears in all entries with all my entries and my standard toolbar changes to my personal settings, but when I open a new word document or reopen this word document Normal.mjd.dot is not loaded even after Saving All . -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Apparently you are still looking in the Organizer. You should be in the document window. When the insertion point is in a paragraph in Normal style, your AutoText toolbar should be displaying All Entries. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message news
Hello Suzanne, under the styles tab on the left side gives the name of the word document and the right side gives a name in Normal below this under Styles available in: is Normal.dot (Global Template) with the options on both sides to Close File and below that on the left says Description_________________ -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It should be displayed in the Styles box and the Styles and Formatting task pane when the paragraph is selected. Or use the Reveal Formatting task pane. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... Hello Suzanne, please can you direct me to find and identify the paragraph style at the insertion point -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Default Paragraph Font is a character style, not a paragraph style. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/DefParaFont.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... Hi, the highlighted style Default Paragraph Font via Organizer. -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Okay, so you have the AutoText toolbar displayed. What is the paragraph style at the insertion point? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... Hello Suzanne; I have "All Active Templates" in the Autocorrect dialog box. I am using all 3 toolbar options which has "All Entries" -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What template do you have selected for "Look in" in the AutoText dialog? Also, note that if the insertion point is in a paragraph for which specific AutoText entries are available, you'll see only those entries rather than all the entries. You should see all the entries if the paragraph is in Normal style, but they will be listed under the applicable styles (separate submenu for each); there is no All Entries menu item on the Insert | AutoText menu. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... "All Entries" for auto text are missing but they are still stored in the AutoText in the Autocorrect (Word 2002) how do I get them back into "All Entries"? Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson |
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"All Entries" for auto text are missing (Word 2002)
Yes you are right I must have another template that contains the same
AutoText entries that is also loaded as a global template, because the entries are repeated only in the odd document. Can you give me step by step instructions to remove Normal.mjd.dot and can I delete this template? -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Tony Jollans" wrote: Hi Michael, It seems there is some confusion here. Can I first confirm what the problem is? If I understand, you have some customized AutoText entries - somewhere, you are not sure where. And you are not seeing what you expect to see under "All Entries" on the AutoText toolbar. You also have some toolbar customizations - deliberately or accidentally, I'm not sure. And you are not not seeing the toolbars you expect. The behaviour varies depending on the document you have open at the time. Am I right? -- Enjoy, Tony "Michael" wrote in message ... A few days back when this problem arrived I did the following; closed Word, search for the file normal.dot I rename it to Normal.mjd.dot then start Word again. I then probably made a few mistakes in trying to resolve the problem. To day I have; close Word, search for the file normal.dot I found several templates with different names I selected normal and rename it to normal.dot because there was no entry with that name, then started Word again. When I open a new word document I find I will need to customize the toolbar and the auto text standard entries are there and only one entry in normal which I added yesterday. When I open some of the documents that I was working out of yesterday the toolbar is customized but with some double entries in the standard auto text and full normal entries in auto text. This seems to be a repeat of the problem, please advise. -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I suspect you lost your normal entries because you tried to use a self-created template as Normal.dot. Then perhaps you copied the AT entries to that template and loaded it as an add-in instead, after restoring Normal.dot, which would result in everything showing up twice. I would suggest that you rename Normal.dot (assuming you don't have too many customizations stored there) to get it back to its default condition. An AutoText toolbar in any document will now show all the default AutoText entries for a given style (All Entries for Normal style or any other that doesn't have specific ones). If you want to add custom AutoText entries, you can save them in Normal.dot, and they'll be displayed in all documents. Or you can save them to a separate template that you save in Word's Startup folder so it will be loaded as an add-in every time you start Word. The new entries in the add-in will be displayed along with the default entries on the AutoText menu. If you want them displayed only in documents based on a specific document template, save them in that specific template; they will be added to the entries in Normal.dot on the AutoText menu. If you want them to be available to documents based on more than one template (but not all documents), store them in a separate template that you load as an add-in as needed. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... Hello Suzanne, I have got my self into a muddle here, first, all my normal auto text were missing in the all entries and now when I open other word documents I find some entries have doubled with all of my normal entries and some with no normal entries, and my toolbars are different. Can you tell me the easiest way to get back to normality? -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: We seem to be more and more at cross purposes here. When I say "insertion point," I mean the blinking cursor in a document. When the cursor is in a Normal paragraph, you should see All Entries on an AutoText toolbar. You are clearly looking somewhere other than the document itself. Now, your reference to Normal.mjd.dot suggests that you are trying to replace Normal.dot with a global template of your own or add a global template based on Normal.dot. Note that any template based on Normal.dot will *not* include the AutoText entries that are in Normal.dot by default (see "WD2002: Styles and AutoText Are Not Copied to New Template Based on Normal.dot" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=291441). It will contain any AutoText entries that you have specifically saved to the new template (by choosing that template in the "Look in" box in Insert | AutoText | AutoText when creating the entries); they will be categorized by style. If you want Normal.mjd.dot to be loaded automatically when you start Word, you must put it in Word's Startup folder. Otherwise, you will have to go to Tools | Templates and Add-ins and check it manually every time you want it loaded. This is explained in http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...latesStore.htm, to which I believe I have previously referred you. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... Normal is inserted below "Document Template and Automatically update document styles" is ticked/checked (please explain your meaning of "insertion point") in the bottom section "Global templates and add-ins checked items are currently loaded" this box is unchecked and has Normal.mjd.dot (if I check this box normal appears in all entries with all my entries and my standard toolbar changes to my personal settings, but when I open a new word document or reopen this word document Normal.mjd.dot is not loaded even after Saving All . -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Apparently you are still looking in the Organizer. You should be in the document window. When the insertion point is in a paragraph in Normal style, your AutoText toolbar should be displaying All Entries. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message news
Hello Suzanne, under the styles tab on the left side gives the name of the word document and the right side gives a name in Normal below this under Styles available in: is Normal.dot (Global Template) with the options on both sides to Close File and below that on the left says Description_________________ -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It should be displayed in the Styles box and the Styles and Formatting task pane when the paragraph is selected. Or use the Reveal Formatting task pane. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... Hello Suzanne, please can you direct me to find and identify the paragraph style at the insertion point -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Default Paragraph Font is a character style, not a paragraph style. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/DefParaFont.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... Hi, the highlighted style Default Paragraph Font via Organizer. -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Okay, so you have the AutoText toolbar displayed. What is the paragraph style at the insertion point? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... Hello Suzanne; I have "All Active Templates" in the Autocorrect dialog box. I am using all 3 toolbar options which has "All Entries" -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What template do you have selected for "Look in" in the AutoText dialog? Also, note that if the insertion point is in a paragraph for which specific AutoText entries are available, you'll see only those entries rather than all the entries. You should see all the entries if the paragraph is in Normal style, but they will be listed under the applicable styles (separate |
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"All Entries" for auto text are missing (Word 2002)
Slow down a bit!!
If the entries are repeated only in an odd document it is not a global template - it is a document template causing the problem. If it were a global template you would see the effects all the time. Can you identify the problematic document and see what template is attached to it? -- Enjoy, Tony "Michael" wrote in message ... Yes you are right I must have another template that contains the same AutoText entries that is also loaded as a global template, because the entries are repeated only in the odd document. Can you give me step by step instructions to remove Normal.mjd.dot and can I delete this template? -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Tony Jollans" wrote: Hi Michael, It seems there is some confusion here. Can I first confirm what the problem is? If I understand, you have some customized AutoText entries - somewhere, you are not sure where. And you are not seeing what you expect to see under "All Entries" on the AutoText toolbar. You also have some toolbar customizations - deliberately or accidentally, I'm not sure. And you are not not seeing the toolbars you expect. The behaviour varies depending on the document you have open at the time. Am I right? -- Enjoy, Tony "Michael" wrote in message ... A few days back when this problem arrived I did the following; closed Word, search for the file normal.dot I rename it to Normal.mjd.dot then start Word again. I then probably made a few mistakes in trying to resolve the problem. To day I have; close Word, search for the file normal.dot I found several templates with different names I selected normal and rename it to normal.dot because there was no entry with that name, then started Word again. When I open a new word document I find I will need to customize the toolbar and the auto text standard entries are there and only one entry in normal which I added yesterday. When I open some of the documents that I was working out of yesterday the toolbar is customized but with some double entries in the standard auto text and full normal entries in auto text. This seems to be a repeat of the problem, please advise. -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I suspect you lost your normal entries because you tried to use a self-created template as Normal.dot. Then perhaps you copied the AT entries to that template and loaded it as an add-in instead, after restoring Normal.dot, which would result in everything showing up twice. I would suggest that you rename Normal.dot (assuming you don't have too many customizations stored there) to get it back to its default condition. An AutoText toolbar in any document will now show all the default AutoText entries for a given style (All Entries for Normal style or any other that doesn't have specific ones). If you want to add custom AutoText entries, you can save them in Normal.dot, and they'll be displayed in all documents. Or you can save them to a separate template that you save in Word's Startup folder so it will be loaded as an add-in every time you start Word. The new entries in the add-in will be displayed along with the default entries on the AutoText menu. If you want them displayed only in documents based on a specific document template, save them in that specific template; they will be added to the entries in Normal.dot on the AutoText menu. If you want them to be available to documents based on more than one template (but not all documents), store them in a separate template that you load as an add-in as needed. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... Hello Suzanne, I have got my self into a muddle here, first, all my normal auto text were missing in the all entries and now when I open other word documents I find some entries have doubled with all of my normal entries and some with no normal entries, and my toolbars are different. Can you tell me the easiest way to get back to normality? -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: We seem to be more and more at cross purposes here. When I say "insertion point," I mean the blinking cursor in a document. When the cursor is in a Normal paragraph, you should see All Entries on an AutoText toolbar. You are clearly looking somewhere other than the document itself. Now, your reference to Normal.mjd.dot suggests that you are trying to replace Normal.dot with a global template of your own or add a global template based on Normal.dot. Note that any template based on Normal.dot will *not* include the AutoText entries that are in Normal.dot by default (see "WD2002: Styles and AutoText Are Not Copied to New Template Based on Normal.dot" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=291441). It will contain any AutoText entries that you have specifically saved to the new template (by choosing that template in the "Look in" box in Insert | AutoText | AutoText when creating the entries); they will be categorized by style. If you want Normal.mjd.dot to be loaded automatically when you start Word, you must put it in Word's Startup folder. Otherwise, you will have to go to Tools | Templates and Add-ins and check it manually every time you want it loaded. This is explained in http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...latesStore.htm, to which I believe I have previously referred you. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... Normal is inserted below "Document Template and Automatically update document styles" is ticked/checked (please explain your meaning of "insertion point") in the bottom section "Global templates and add-ins checked items are currently loaded" this box is unchecked and has Normal.mjd.dot (if I check this box normal appears in all entries with all my entries and my standard toolbar changes to my personal settings, but when I open a new word document or reopen this word document Normal.mjd.dot is not loaded even after Saving All . -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Apparently you are still looking in the Organizer. You should be in the document window. When the insertion point is in a paragraph in Normal style, your AutoText toolbar should be displaying All Entries. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message news
Hello Suzanne, under the styles tab on the left side gives thename of the word document and the right side gives a name in Normal below this under Styles available in: is Normal.dot (Global Template) with the options on both sides to Close File and below that on the left says Description_________________ -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It should be displayed in the Styles box and the Styles and Formatting task pane when the paragraph is selected. Or use the Reveal Formatting task pane. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... Hello Suzanne, please can you direct me to find and identify the paragraph style at the insertion point -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Default Paragraph Font is a character style, not a paragraph style. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/DefParaFont.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... Hi, the highlighted style Default Paragraph Font via Organizer. -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Okay, so you have the AutoText toolbar displayed. What is the paragraph style at the insertion point? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... Hello Suzanne; I have "All Active Templates" in the Autocorrect dialog box. I am using all 3 toolbar options which has "All Entries" -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What template do you have selected for "Look in" in the AutoText dialog? Also, note that if the insertion point is in a paragraph for which specific AutoText entries are available, you'll see only those entries rather than all the entries. You should see all the entries if the paragraph is in Normal style, but they will be listed under the applicable styles (separate |
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I have identified the problematic document template as Normal.mjd.dot
The document template that is in a new Word document is Normal please give step by step instructions to restore order and what about deleting Normal.mjd.dot completely. -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Tony Jollans" wrote: Slow down a bit!! If the entries are repeated only in an odd document it is not a global template - it is a document template causing the problem. If it were a global template you would see the effects all the time. Can you identify the problematic document and see what template is attached to it? -- Enjoy, Tony "Michael" wrote in message ... Yes you are right I must have another template that contains the same AutoText entries that is also loaded as a global template, because the entries are repeated only in the odd document. Can you give me step by step instructions to remove Normal.mjd.dot and can I delete this template? -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Tony Jollans" wrote: Hi Michael, It seems there is some confusion here. Can I first confirm what the problem is? If I understand, you have some customized AutoText entries - somewhere, you are not sure where. And you are not seeing what you expect to see under "All Entries" on the AutoText toolbar. You also have some toolbar customizations - deliberately or accidentally, I'm not sure. And you are not not seeing the toolbars you expect. The behaviour varies depending on the document you have open at the time. Am I right? -- Enjoy, Tony "Michael" wrote in message ... A few days back when this problem arrived I did the following; closed Word, search for the file normal.dot I rename it to Normal.mjd.dot then start Word again. I then probably made a few mistakes in trying to resolve the problem. To day I have; close Word, search for the file normal.dot I found several templates with different names I selected normal and rename it to normal.dot because there was no entry with that name, then started Word again. When I open a new word document I find I will need to customize the toolbar and the auto text standard entries are there and only one entry in normal which I added yesterday. When I open some of the documents that I was working out of yesterday the toolbar is customized but with some double entries in the standard auto text and full normal entries in auto text. This seems to be a repeat of the problem, please advise. -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I suspect you lost your normal entries because you tried to use a self-created template as Normal.dot. Then perhaps you copied the AT entries to that template and loaded it as an add-in instead, after restoring Normal.dot, which would result in everything showing up twice. I would suggest that you rename Normal.dot (assuming you don't have too many customizations stored there) to get it back to its default condition. An AutoText toolbar in any document will now show all the default AutoText entries for a given style (All Entries for Normal style or any other that doesn't have specific ones). If you want to add custom AutoText entries, you can save them in Normal.dot, and they'll be displayed in all documents. Or you can save them to a separate template that you save in Word's Startup folder so it will be loaded as an add-in every time you start Word. The new entries in the add-in will be displayed along with the default entries on the AutoText menu. If you want them displayed only in documents based on a specific document template, save them in that specific template; they will be added to the entries in Normal.dot on the AutoText menu. If you want them to be available to documents based on more than one template (but not all documents), store them in a separate template that you load as an add-in as needed. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... Hello Suzanne, I have got my self into a muddle here, first, all my normal auto text were missing in the all entries and now when I open other word documents I find some entries have doubled with all of my normal entries and some with no normal entries, and my toolbars are different. Can you tell me the easiest way to get back to normality? -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: We seem to be more and more at cross purposes here. When I say "insertion point," I mean the blinking cursor in a document. When the cursor is in a Normal paragraph, you should see All Entries on an AutoText toolbar. You are clearly looking somewhere other than the document itself. Now, your reference to Normal.mjd.dot suggests that you are trying to replace Normal.dot with a global template of your own or add a global template based on Normal.dot. Note that any template based on Normal.dot will *not* include the AutoText entries that are in Normal.dot by default (see "WD2002: Styles and AutoText Are Not Copied to New Template Based on Normal.dot" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=291441). It will contain any AutoText entries that you have specifically saved to the new template (by choosing that template in the "Look in" box in Insert | AutoText | AutoText when creating the entries); they will be categorized by style. If you want Normal.mjd.dot to be loaded automatically when you start Word, you must put it in Word's Startup folder. Otherwise, you will have to go to Tools | Templates and Add-ins and check it manually every time you want it loaded. This is explained in http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...latesStore.htm, to which I believe I have previously referred you. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... Normal is inserted below "Document Template and Automatically update document styles" is ticked/checked (please explain your meaning of "insertion point") in the bottom section "Global templates and add-ins checked items are currently loaded" this box is unchecked and has Normal.mjd.dot (if I check this box normal appears in all entries with all my entries and my standard toolbar changes to my personal settings, but when I open a new word document or reopen this word document Normal.mjd.dot is not loaded even after Saving All . -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Apparently you are still looking in the Organizer. You should be in the document window. When the insertion point is in a paragraph in Normal style, your AutoText toolbar should be displaying All Entries. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message news
Hello Suzanne, under the styles tab on the left side gives thename of the word document and the right side gives a name in Normal below this under Styles available in: is Normal.dot (Global Template) with the options on both sides to Close File and below that on the left says Description_________________ -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It should be displayed in the Styles box and the Styles and Formatting task pane when the paragraph is selected. Or use the Reveal Formatting task pane. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... Hello Suzanne, please can you direct me to find and identify the paragraph style at the insertion point -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Default Paragraph Font is a character style, not a paragraph style. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/DefParaFont.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill |
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"All Entries" for auto text are missing (Word 2002)
Hi Michael,
How have you identified Normal.mjd.dot as being the cause of your problems? If (as per one of your previous posts) you renamed Normal.dot as Normal.mjd.dot and left it where it was then it should not ever have been opened again or ever used as either a document template or a global template --- unless you did something else (unusual) as well. It is that unusual action I am trying to discover in order to help you sort things out. When you start Word (with a new empty document) I presume your AutoText All Entries are correct. If not, ... please go to Tools Templates and Addins. On the Templates tab there wil be a list of "Global templates and AddIns" Any or all of these may be checked. Uncheck one of them and close the dialog. If the "All Entries" list is then good, ... You have identifed the culprit. Come back and we can sort it out If not, repeat, one at a time, until no templates are left checked. If you still have the problem then ... It would appear to be Normal.dot itself If so, come back and we can take it from there If all is well when you start Word, then, If you know a document that causes the problem, open it If not, work until the problem appears Then Go to the Tools Templates and AddIns dialog again At the top it will show the Document Template Make a note of it and come back here. -- Enjoy, Tony "Michael" wrote in message ... I have identified the problematic document template as Normal.mjd.dot The document template that is in a new Word document is Normal please give step by step instructions to restore order and what about deleting Normal.mjd.dot completely. -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Tony Jollans" wrote: Slow down a bit!! If the entries are repeated only in an odd document it is not a global template - it is a document template causing the problem. If it were a global template you would see the effects all the time. Can you identify the problematic document and see what template is attached to it? -- Enjoy, Tony "Michael" wrote in message ... Yes you are right I must have another template that contains the same AutoText entries that is also loaded as a global template, because the entries are repeated only in the odd document. Can you give me step by step instructions to remove Normal.mjd.dot and can I delete this template? -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Tony Jollans" wrote: Hi Michael, It seems there is some confusion here. Can I first confirm what the problem is? If I understand, you have some customized AutoText entries - somewhere, you are not sure where. And you are not seeing what you expect to see under "All Entries" on the AutoText toolbar. You also have some toolbar customizations - deliberately or accidentally, I'm not sure. And you are not not seeing the toolbars you expect. The behaviour varies depending on the document you have open at the time. Am I right? -- Enjoy, Tony "Michael" wrote in message ... A few days back when this problem arrived I did the following; closed Word, search for the file normal.dot I rename it to Normal.mjd.dot then start Word again. I then probably made a few mistakes in trying to resolve the problem. To day I have; close Word, search for the file normal.dot I found several templates with different names I selected normal and rename it to normal.dot because there was no entry with that name, then started Word again. When I open a new word document I find I will need to customize the toolbar and the auto text standard entries are there and only one entry in normal which I added yesterday. When I open some of the documents that I was working out of yesterday the toolbar is customized but with some double entries in the standard auto text and full normal entries in auto text. This seems to be a repeat of the problem, please advise. -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I suspect you lost your normal entries because you tried to use a self-created template as Normal.dot. Then perhaps you copied the AT entries to that template and loaded it as an add-in instead, after restoring Normal.dot, which would result in everything showing up twice. I would suggest that you rename Normal.dot (assuming you don't have too many customizations stored there) to get it back to its default condition. An AutoText toolbar in any document will now show all the default AutoText entries for a given style (All Entries for Normal style or any other that doesn't have specific ones). If you want to add custom AutoText entries, you can save them in Normal.dot, and they'll be displayed in all documents. Or you can save them to a separate template that you save in Word's Startup folder so it will be loaded as an add-in every time you start Word. The new entries in the add-in will be displayed along with the default entries on the AutoText menu. If you want them displayed only in documents based on a specific document template, save them in that specific template; they will be added to the entries in Normal.dot on the AutoText menu. If you want them to be available to documents based on more than one template (but not all documents), store them in a separate template that you load as an add-in as needed. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... Hello Suzanne, I have got my self into a muddle here, first, all my normal auto text were missing in the all entries and now when I open other word documents I find some entries have doubled with all of my normal entries and some with no normal entries, and my toolbars are different. Can you tell me the easiest way to get back to normality? -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: We seem to be more and more at cross purposes here. When I say "insertion point," I mean the blinking cursor in a document. When the cursor is in a Normal paragraph, you should see All Entries on an AutoText toolbar. You are clearly looking somewhere other than the document itself. Now, your reference to Normal.mjd.dot suggests that you are trying to replace Normal.dot with a global template of your own or add a global template based on Normal.dot. Note that any template based on Normal.dot will *not* include the AutoText entries that are in Normal.dot by default (see "WD2002: Styles and AutoText Are Not Copied to New Template Based on Normal.dot" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=291441). It will contain any AutoText entries that you have specifically saved to the new template (by choosing that template in the "Look in" box in Insert | AutoText | AutoText when creating the entries); they will be categorized by style. If you want Normal.mjd.dot to be loaded automatically when you start Word, you must put it in Word's Startup folder. Otherwise, you will have to go to Tools | Templates and Add-ins and check it manually every time you want it loaded. This is explained in http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...latesStore.htm, to which I believe I have previously referred you. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... Normal is inserted below "Document Template and Automatically update document styles" is ticked/checked (please explain your meaning of "insertion point") in the bottom section "Global templates and add-ins checked items are currently loaded" this box is unchecked and has Normal.mjd.dot (if I check this box normal appears in all entries with all my entries and my standard toolbar changes to my personal settings, but when I open a new word document or reopen this word document Normal.mjd.dot is not loaded even after Saving All . -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Apparently you are still looking in the Organizer. You should be in the document window. When the insertion point is in a paragraph in Normal style, your AutoText toolbar should be displaying All Entries. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message news
Hello Suzanne, under the styles tab on the left side gives the name of the word document and the right side gives a name in Normal below this under Styles available in: is Normal.dot (Global Template) with the options on both sides to Close File and below that on the left says Description_________________ -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It should be displayed in the Styles box and the Styles and Formatting task pane when the paragraph is selected. Or use the Reveal Formatting task pane. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... Hello Suzanne, please can you direct me to find and identify the paragraph style at the insertion point -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Default Paragraph Font is a character style, not a paragraph style. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/DefParaFont.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill |
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I identified Normal.mjd.dot as being the cause of the problem because
Normal.mjd.dot was the document template in the problematic document, whereas Normal was the document template in the new Word document. The problematic document, I introduced Normal.mjd.dot trying to get back to normality. When I start Word (with a new empty document) my AutoText All Entries are correct I copied and pasted all my customized auto text entries and set the toolbar up. I have not made any alterations since my last post as I am awaiting your instructions. When you rename Normal.dot is it alright to name as Normal.mjd.dot ? -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Tony Jollans" wrote: Hi Michael, How have you identified Normal.mjd.dot as being the cause of your problems? If (as per one of your previous posts) you renamed Normal.dot as Normal.mjd.dot and left it where it was then it should not ever have been opened again or ever used as either a document template or a global template --- unless you did something else (unusual) as well. It is that unusual action I am trying to discover in order to help you sort things out. When you start Word (with a new empty document) I presume your AutoText All Entries are correct. If not, ... please go to Tools Templates and Addins. On the Templates tab there wil be a list of "Global templates and AddIns" Any or all of these may be checked. Uncheck one of them and close the dialog. If the "All Entries" list is then good, ... You have identifed the culprit. Come back and we can sort it out If not, repeat, one at a time, until no templates are left checked. If you still have the problem then ... It would appear to be Normal.dot itself If so, come back and we can take it from there If all is well when you start Word, then, If you know a document that causes the problem, open it If not, work until the problem appears Then Go to the Tools Templates and AddIns dialog again At the top it will show the Document Template Make a note of it and come back here. -- Enjoy, Tony "Michael" wrote in message ... I have identified the problematic document template as Normal.mjd.dot The document template that is in a new Word document is Normal please give step by step instructions to restore order and what about deleting Normal.mjd.dot completely. -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Tony Jollans" wrote: Slow down a bit!! If the entries are repeated only in an odd document it is not a global template - it is a document template causing the problem. If it were a global template you would see the effects all the time. Can you identify the problematic document and see what template is attached to it? -- Enjoy, Tony "Michael" wrote in message ... Yes you are right I must have another template that contains the same AutoText entries that is also loaded as a global template, because the entries are repeated only in the odd document. Can you give me step by step instructions to remove Normal.mjd.dot and can I delete this template? -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Tony Jollans" wrote: Hi Michael, It seems there is some confusion here. Can I first confirm what the problem is? If I understand, you have some customized AutoText entries - somewhere, you are not sure where. And you are not seeing what you expect to see under "All Entries" on the AutoText toolbar. You also have some toolbar customizations - deliberately or accidentally, I'm not sure. And you are not not seeing the toolbars you expect. The behaviour varies depending on the document you have open at the time. Am I right? -- Enjoy, Tony "Michael" wrote in message ... A few days back when this problem arrived I did the following; closed Word, search for the file normal.dot I rename it to Normal.mjd.dot then start Word again. I then probably made a few mistakes in trying to resolve the problem. To day I have; close Word, search for the file normal.dot I found several templates with different names I selected normal and rename it to normal.dot because there was no entry with that name, then started Word again. When I open a new word document I find I will need to customize the toolbar and the auto text standard entries are there and only one entry in normal which I added yesterday. When I open some of the documents that I was working out of yesterday the toolbar is customized but with some double entries in the standard auto text and full normal entries in auto text. This seems to be a repeat of the problem, please advise. -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I suspect you lost your normal entries because you tried to use a self-created template as Normal.dot. Then perhaps you copied the AT entries to that template and loaded it as an add-in instead, after restoring Normal.dot, which would result in everything showing up twice. I would suggest that you rename Normal.dot (assuming you don't have too many customizations stored there) to get it back to its default condition. An AutoText toolbar in any document will now show all the default AutoText entries for a given style (All Entries for Normal style or any other that doesn't have specific ones). If you want to add custom AutoText entries, you can save them in Normal.dot, and they'll be displayed in all documents. Or you can save them to a separate template that you save in Word's Startup folder so it will be loaded as an add-in every time you start Word. The new entries in the add-in will be displayed along with the default entries on the AutoText menu. If you want them displayed only in documents based on a specific document template, save them in that specific template; they will be added to the entries in Normal.dot on the AutoText menu. If you want them to be available to documents based on more than one template (but not all documents), store them in a separate template that you load as an add-in as needed. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... Hello Suzanne, I have got my self into a muddle here, first, all my normal auto text were missing in the all entries and now when I open other word documents I find some entries have doubled with all of my normal entries and some with no normal entries, and my toolbars are different. Can you tell me the easiest way to get back to normality? -- Kind Regards, Michael J Dickson "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: We seem to be more and more at cross purposes here. When I say "insertion point," I mean the blinking cursor in a document. When the cursor is in a Normal paragraph, you should see All Entries on an AutoText toolbar. You are clearly looking somewhere other than the document itself. Now, your reference to Normal.mjd.dot suggests that you are trying to replace Normal.dot with a global template of your own or add a global template based on Normal.dot. Note that any template based on Normal.dot will *not* include the AutoText entries that are in Normal.dot by default (see "WD2002: Styles and AutoText Are Not Copied to New Template Based on Normal.dot" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=291441). It will contain any AutoText entries that you have specifically saved to the new template (by choosing that template in the "Look in" box in Insert | AutoText | AutoText when creating the entries); they will be categorized by style. If you want Normal.mjd.dot to be loaded automatically when you start Word, you must put it in Word's Startup folder. Otherwise, you will have to go to Tools | Templates and Add-ins and check it manually every time you want it loaded. This is explained in http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...latesStore.htm, to which I believe I have previously referred you. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Michael" wrote in message ... Normal is inserted below "Document Template and Automatically update document styles" is ticked/checked (please explain your meaning of "insertion point") in the bottom section "Global templates and add-ins checked items are currently loaded" this box is unchecked and has Normal.mjd.dot (if I |
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