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Auto text not showing up
I have a user using Word 2000 and all of a sudden she says that this week her
auto text entries aren't showing up when she types. All of her entries are there and I double checked. They definitely don't show up as you type. She said 3 months ago Acrobat 7.0 was installed and I know that it has caused other problems in Word. Could Acrobat cause an auto text problem? I am also wondering if the Normal.dot has been messed with. Could that also be a problem? |
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Acrobat 7 does cause problems, but it doesn't make AutoText that was there
last week disappear. Chances are that normal.dot was overwritten. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "MR" wrote in message ... I have a user using Word 2000 and all of a sudden she says that this week her auto text entries aren't showing up when she types. All of her entries are there and I double checked. They definitely don't show up as you type. She said 3 months ago Acrobat 7.0 was installed and I know that it has caused other problems in Word. Could Acrobat cause an auto text problem? I am also wondering if the Normal.dot has been messed with. Could that also be a problem? |
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The auto text entries are still there, but when the user types the "tool tip"
won't pop-up. "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Acrobat 7 does cause problems, but it doesn't make AutoText that was there last week disappear. Chances are that normal.dot was overwritten. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "MR" wrote in message ... I have a user using Word 2000 and all of a sudden she says that this week her auto text entries aren't showing up when she types. All of her entries are there and I double checked. They definitely don't show up as you type. She said 3 months ago Acrobat 7.0 was installed and I know that it has caused other problems in Word. Could Acrobat cause an auto text problem? I am also wondering if the Normal.dot has been messed with. Could that also be a problem? |
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MR wrote:
I have a user using Word 2000 and all of a sudden she says that this week her auto text entries aren't showing up when she types. All of her entries are there and I double checked. They definitely don't show up as you type. She said 3 months ago Acrobat 7.0 was installed and I know that it has caused other problems in Word. Could Acrobat cause an auto text problem? I am also wondering if the Normal.dot has been messed with. Could that also be a problem? Exactly what do you mean by "aren't showing up"? Is it just that the prompts (which Word calls AutoComplete suggestions) don't appear? If so, make sure (a) the checkbox at the top of the AutoText dialog is checked and (b) the names of the entries are at least 4 characters long and unique within the first word. What happens if you type the name of the AutoText entry and press F3? That should enter the AutoText in the document, regardless of whether the AutoComplete appeared. Note that AutoText does *not* do automatic replacement. That's a separate feature, AutoCorrect. For more on the feature, see http://www.word.mvps.org/faqs/custom...n/AutoText.htm. If new AutoText entries aren't being saved, so they "disappear" the next time you open Word, that points to Normal.dot not being saved. That is indeed a side effect of the Acrobat 7.0 add-in -- see the end of http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm. But the difference in timing, 3 months vs. 1 week, indicates that these might be two separate problems. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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On the Tools menu, click AutoCorrect. Click the AutoText tab. Check the
option to "Show AutoComplete tip for AutoText and date", and then click OK. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "MR" wrote in message ... The auto text entries are still there, but when the user types the "tool tip" won't pop-up. "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Acrobat 7 does cause problems, but it doesn't make AutoText that was there last week disappear. Chances are that normal.dot was overwritten. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "MR" wrote in message ... I have a user using Word 2000 and all of a sudden she says that this week her auto text entries aren't showing up when she types. All of her entries are there and I double checked. They definitely don't show up as you type. She said 3 months ago Acrobat 7.0 was installed and I know that it has caused other problems in Word. Could Acrobat cause an auto text problem? I am also wondering if the Normal.dot has been messed with. Could that also be a problem? |
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