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Insert auto text it is currently grayed out
I have been able to use insert auto text in header/footer. Now even when I
display header/footer and click on tool bar, options, highlight insert autotext as soon as I close the minue the insert autotext is grayed out again. |
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Insert auto text it is currently grayed out
Close Word. Rename your Normal.dot template as described in
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm . Word will create a new Normal.dot template when you restart it. If desired, you can start Word and click on Tools | Templates and Addins | Organizer, and copy your customizations from your renamed Normal.dot to the new Normal.dot. Old Retired Telephone Man wrote: I have been able to use insert auto text in header/footer. Now even when I display header/footer and click on tool bar, options, highlight insert autotext as soon as I close the minue the insert autotext is grayed out again. |
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Insert auto text it is currently grayed out
Thank you. I have done this procedure before. I have now done the procedure
again and I now have insert auto text back. I suppose the next logical question is "since I do not save to normal.dot and when I create a new Word document I begin with the blank document that Word presents when I open Word how or what changes the Normal.dot"? I know that you may not be able to answer that question. I see by the referenced document that I am not the only person with this problem. Best regards. "garfield-n-odie" wrote: Close Word. Rename your Normal.dot template as described in http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm . Word will create a new Normal.dot template when you restart it. If desired, you can start Word and click on Tools | Templates and Addins | Organizer, and copy your customizations from your renamed Normal.dot to the new Normal.dot. Old Retired Telephone Man wrote: I have been able to use insert auto text in header/footer. Now even when I display header/footer and click on tool bar, options, highlight insert autotext as soon as I close the minue the insert autotext is grayed out again. |
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Usually this is the work of a poorly designed add-in. The Office Plug-in in
Norton AntiVirus and the Microsoft Works Suite Add-in for Word are notorious for this kind of nonsense. Make sure you have "Prompt to save Normal template" checked on the Save tab of Tools | Options so you'll at least get some warning when an add-in is trying to modify Normal.dot. -- 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. "Old Retired Telephone Man" m wrote in message ... Thank you. I have done this procedure before. I have now done the procedure again and I now have insert auto text back. I suppose the next logical question is "since I do not save to normal.dot and when I create a new Word document I begin with the blank document that Word presents when I open Word how or what changes the Normal.dot"? I know that you may not be able to answer that question. I see by the referenced document that I am not the only person with this problem. Best regards. "garfield-n-odie" wrote: Close Word. Rename your Normal.dot template as described in http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm . Word will create a new Normal.dot template when you restart it. If desired, you can start Word and click on Tools | Templates and Addins | Organizer, and copy your customizations from your renamed Normal.dot to the new Normal.dot. Old Retired Telephone Man wrote: I have been able to use insert auto text in header/footer. Now even when I display header/footer and click on tool bar, options, highlight insert autotext as soon as I close the minue the insert autotext is grayed out again. |
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Thank you. I now have "Prompt to same Normal template" checked, it was not
previously. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Usually this is the work of a poorly designed add-in. The Office Plug-in in Norton AntiVirus and the Microsoft Works Suite Add-in for Word are notorious for this kind of nonsense. Make sure you have "Prompt to save Normal template" checked on the Save tab of Tools | Options so you'll at least get some warning when an add-in is trying to modify Normal.dot. -- 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. "Old Retired Telephone Man" m wrote in message ... Thank you. I have done this procedure before. I have now done the procedure again and I now have insert auto text back. I suppose the next logical question is "since I do not save to normal.dot and when I create a new Word document I begin with the blank document that Word presents when I open Word how or what changes the Normal.dot"? I know that you may not be able to answer that question. I see by the referenced document that I am not the only person with this problem. Best regards. "garfield-n-odie" wrote: Close Word. Rename your Normal.dot template as described in http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm . Word will create a new Normal.dot template when you restart it. If desired, you can start Word and click on Tools | Templates and Addins | Organizer, and copy your customizations from your renamed Normal.dot to the new Normal.dot. Old Retired Telephone Man wrote: I have been able to use insert auto text in header/footer. Now even when I display header/footer and click on tool bar, options, highlight insert autotext as soon as I close the minue the insert autotext is grayed out again. |
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