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Word 2007 - With Vista 64
Somehow or someway, I deleted or turned off the auto insert date when typing
a new letter in MS Word. In 2007 and previous versions, as you began to type the month the month name filled in followed by date and year. I have looked all over the help menu can not find how to turn this feature back on or re-install it if necessay. Thank you Dave |
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Word 2007 - With Vista 64
AutoComplete is a bit flakey in Word 2007, unfortunately--Vista 64 bit and
32 bit. I see it stop working all by itself... then suddenly work again after I close a lot of programs and try again. And, sometimes it won't work again until after I reboot. If you start Word in Safe mode or using the /a switch, date AutoComplete will usually work fine (it does here, I just tried). But starting normally, it doesn't work. I tried renaming a bunch of registry tree entries as well as normal.dotm. I also turned off all Word add-ins. I also closed everything except for the program I'm using to post this response None of those worked. But, I know that if I reboot, date AutoComplete will suddenly work again. As far as I know, there is no solution yet. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Dave" wrote in message ... Somehow or someway, I deleted or turned off the auto insert date when typing a new letter in MS Word. In 2007 and previous versions, as you began to type the month the month name filled in followed by date and year. I have looked all over the help menu can not find how to turn this feature back on or re-install it if necessay. Thank you Dave |
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Word 2007 - With Vista 64
I've been doing some experimentation this morning and have discovered
something useful. It appears that Word 2007's date autocomplete does NOT work if the window is zoomed to a level that requires display of the horizontal scroll bar beyond a certain point. I wonder if this is what's causing it to not work for you. I have two monitors. My usual zoom for Word--so I can read comforatably--is 160%. At that zoom, the horizontal scroll bar has decidedly kicked in. With the Word window maximized, in Print Layout view, I tried the following. I start at 100%, and date AutoComplete works fine. If I increase the zoom in 5% increments, the horizontal scroll bar appears at 170%. Date AutoComplete still works. At 175% however, date AutoComplete stops working. If I back down to 170%, it works again. It works all the time in Draft view, regardless of zoom. In Web Layout, it's the same problem as in Print Layout. The first zoom nudge that makes the horizontal scrollbar appear doesn't kill date AutoComplete. The second zoom nudge above that, however, does kill it. I hope this helps! -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message ... AutoComplete is a bit flakey in Word 2007, unfortunately--Vista 64 bit and 32 bit. I see it stop working all by itself... then suddenly work again after I close a lot of programs and try again. And, sometimes it won't work again until after I reboot. If you start Word in Safe mode or using the /a switch, date AutoComplete will usually work fine (it does here, I just tried). But starting normally, it doesn't work. I tried renaming a bunch of registry tree entries as well as normal.dotm. I also turned off all Word add-ins. I also closed everything except for the program I'm using to post this response None of those worked. But, I know that if I reboot, date AutoComplete will suddenly work again. As far as I know, there is no solution yet. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Dave" wrote in message ... Somehow or someway, I deleted or turned off the auto insert date when typing a new letter in MS Word. In 2007 and previous versions, as you began to type the month the month name filled in followed by date and year. I have looked all over the help menu can not find how to turn this feature back on or re-install it if necessay. Thank you Dave |
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Word 2007 - With Vista 64
Thanks Herb. I tried as you explained and in different modes. Size from 170
to 75%. Nothing. At least it isn't just me I guess. Another MS story. Thank you for your time. Dave "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: I've been doing some experimentation this morning and have discovered something useful. It appears that Word 2007's date autocomplete does NOT work if the window is zoomed to a level that requires display of the horizontal scroll bar beyond a certain point. I wonder if this is what's causing it to not work for you. I have two monitors. My usual zoom for Word--so I can read comforatably--is 160%. At that zoom, the horizontal scroll bar has decidedly kicked in. With the Word window maximized, in Print Layout view, I tried the following. I start at 100%, and date AutoComplete works fine. If I increase the zoom in 5% increments, the horizontal scroll bar appears at 170%. Date AutoComplete still works. At 175% however, date AutoComplete stops working. If I back down to 170%, it works again. It works all the time in Draft view, regardless of zoom. In Web Layout, it's the same problem as in Print Layout. The first zoom nudge that makes the horizontal scrollbar appear doesn't kill date AutoComplete. The second zoom nudge above that, however, does kill it. I hope this helps! -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message ... AutoComplete is a bit flakey in Word 2007, unfortunately--Vista 64 bit and 32 bit. I see it stop working all by itself... then suddenly work again after I close a lot of programs and try again. And, sometimes it won't work again until after I reboot. If you start Word in Safe mode or using the /a switch, date AutoComplete will usually work fine (it does here, I just tried). But starting normally, it doesn't work. I tried renaming a bunch of registry tree entries as well as normal.dotm. I also turned off all Word add-ins. I also closed everything except for the program I'm using to post this response None of those worked. But, I know that if I reboot, date AutoComplete will suddenly work again. As far as I know, there is no solution yet. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Dave" wrote in message ... Somehow or someway, I deleted or turned off the auto insert date when typing a new letter in MS Word. In 2007 and previous versions, as you began to type the month the month name filled in followed by date and year. I have looked all over the help menu can not find how to turn this feature back on or re-install it if necessay. Thank you Dave |
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Word 2007 - With Vista 64
You might try deleting or renaming your Data key to see if the problem in
your case is a corrupted registry entry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\W ord There is no way to turn off date AutoComplete through the interface, and it's hard to imagine someone doing it using VBA by accident. However, on the slim chance that it did get turned off somehow, you can try to turn it back on as follows: 1. Press Alt+F11. 2. Press Ctrl+G. 3. Type or paste this into the Immediate window: Application.DisplayAutoCompleteTips = True then press Enter. Now see if date AutoComplete works. Note: this will not work if VBA wasn't installed. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Dave" wrote in message ... Thanks Herb. I tried as you explained and in different modes. Size from 170 to 75%. Nothing. At least it isn't just me I guess. Another MS story. Thank you for your time. Dave "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: I've been doing some experimentation this morning and have discovered something useful. It appears that Word 2007's date autocomplete does NOT work if the window is zoomed to a level that requires display of the horizontal scroll bar beyond a certain point. I wonder if this is what's causing it to not work for you. I have two monitors. My usual zoom for Word--so I can read comforatably--is 160%. At that zoom, the horizontal scroll bar has decidedly kicked in. With the Word window maximized, in Print Layout view, I tried the following. I start at 100%, and date AutoComplete works fine. If I increase the zoom in 5% increments, the horizontal scroll bar appears at 170%. Date AutoComplete still works. At 175% however, date AutoComplete stops working. If I back down to 170%, it works again. It works all the time in Draft view, regardless of zoom. In Web Layout, it's the same problem as in Print Layout. The first zoom nudge that makes the horizontal scrollbar appear doesn't kill date AutoComplete. The second zoom nudge above that, however, does kill it. I hope this helps! -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message ... AutoComplete is a bit flakey in Word 2007, unfortunately--Vista 64 bit and 32 bit. I see it stop working all by itself... then suddenly work again after I close a lot of programs and try again. And, sometimes it won't work again until after I reboot. If you start Word in Safe mode or using the /a switch, date AutoComplete will usually work fine (it does here, I just tried). But starting normally, it doesn't work. I tried renaming a bunch of registry tree entries as well as normal.dotm. I also turned off all Word add-ins. I also closed everything except for the program I'm using to post this response None of those worked. But, I know that if I reboot, date AutoComplete will suddenly work again. As far as I know, there is no solution yet. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Dave" wrote in message ... Somehow or someway, I deleted or turned off the auto insert date when typing a new letter in MS Word. In 2007 and previous versions, as you began to type the month the month name filled in followed by date and year. I have looked all over the help menu can not find how to turn this feature back on or re-install it if necessay. Thank you Dave |
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