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Insert autotext missing in headers/footers
You don't have to "save over it." You open it just as you would any other
document or template and use Save (not Save As). Word happily permits this. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Vince T" wrote in message ... Thanks, Suzanne. I can see now that I have 'gone the wrong way around the block' to arrive at the same point. I should have amended the normal.dot rather than transfering the styles to a new template and then replacing normal.dot with my new one. However, I have always found it difficult in the past to amend normal .dot because Word doesn't allow you to save over it while the program is still open. -- V "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You have missed the point. You cannot create a Normal.dot; only Word can do that. You need instead to modify the existing Normal.dot to your requirements. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Vince T" wrote in message news Thanks, Suzanne. I also found that to reinstate the standard normal.dot template, I simply delete the normal.dot I had altered from its location (see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291446/) and Word creates a new Normal.dot with the autotext entries and standard fonts. Then I followed the instructions in the link you gave me to use Organizer to copy the styles into a new template. Then I changed the normal font to my desired one in Format Styles and saved the template under a new name, closed Word, deleted Normal.dot and renamed my new template as Normal.dot so that it becomes the default. -- V "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The most common reason for missing AutoText entries is having saved a document or template as Normal.dot. See €śWD2002: Styles and AutoText Are Not Copied to New Template Based on Normal.dot€ť at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=291441 -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Vince T" wrote in message ... Thanks, Cindy. I checked the style in the header and the footer and they are both correct. I had previously changed the header and footer fonts throuhg the Format Style option. Would that have deleted the Autotext entries? -- V "Cindy M." wrote: Hi ?B?VmluY2UgVA==?=, The option to 'insert autotext' is blanked out in the drop down menu in my Word 2000 View header and footer. Does anyone know how I can restore it? I have tried the repair function on the Office 200 SR-1 disk. Check the STYLE of the header/footer area. AutoText entries are assigned to categories, based on the style with which they are formatted. The entries for the Header/Footer require that the "Header" or "Footer" style be applied to the current selection. If another style has been used, this list won't be available. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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