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Insert > Autotext is missing "filename" and "filename and path"; how to get back?
I don't know where these have gone to in my current normal.dot, but
they're gone. Is there a way to get these back? Thanks. |
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Well, you could rename Normal.dot, or you could create them yourself;
they're just { FILENAME } and { FILENAME \p } fields. -- 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. "StargateFan" wrote in message ... I don't know where these have gone to in my current normal.dot, but they're gone. Is there a way to get these back? Thanks. |
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 23:03:43 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote: Well, you could rename Normal.dot, or you could create them yourself; they're just { FILENAME } and { FILENAME \p } fields. The second option sounds like a winner as I couldn't live without my normal.dot! g As always, I'll try to see what I can find in the help and on the web. I don't have a whole lot of luck with these types of searches, but I always try. g Thanks. -- 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. "StargateFan" wrote in message .. . I don't know where these have gone to in my current normal.dot, but they're gone. Is there a way to get these back? Thanks. |
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On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 07:46:53 -0500, StargateFan
wrote: On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 23:03:43 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Well, you could rename Normal.dot, or you could create them yourself; they're just { FILENAME } and { FILENAME \p } fields. [snip] As always, I'll try to see what I can find in the help and on the web. I don't have a whole lot of luck with these types of searches, but I always try. g Hold the presses, hold the presses!! Can't believe I figured something out on my own! g I'm not always able to. For others like me who are programming, etc., dimwits and are just intuitive power users vbg, I just typed in "FILENAME \p" in the field codes' box that comes up when you click on INSERT FIELD... No pathname showed initially, but when I saved it then re-opened the file, the full file and path were there in the footer. I imagine this would work anywhere, too. Thanks so much! You're a lifesaver again. I need to send a doct. to my supervisor and another to my boss promising to fix the lack of pathname only not to find it. sigh I'm out of the fat in the fire now! g [snip] |
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For future reference, you can rename Normal.dot, copy the relevant AutoText
entries from the new Normal.dot to the renamed one, then delete the new one and rename the old one back to Normal.dot. This would be the most efficient approach if you'd lost more than a couple of AutoText entries (though usually that happens only if you've saved a document as Normal.dot, in which case you have more problems than just AutoText), but in your case recreating the entries was the better way. -- 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. "StargateFan" wrote in message ... On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 23:03:43 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Well, you could rename Normal.dot, or you could create them yourself; they're just { FILENAME } and { FILENAME \p } fields. The second option sounds like a winner as I couldn't live without my normal.dot! g As always, I'll try to see what I can find in the help and on the web. I don't have a whole lot of luck with these types of searches, but I always try. g Thanks. -- 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. "StargateFan" wrote in message .. . I don't know where these have gone to in my current normal.dot, but they're gone. Is there a way to get these back? Thanks. |
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On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 07:57:19 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote: For future reference, you can rename Normal.dot, copy the relevant AutoText entries from the new Normal.dot to the renamed one, then delete the new one and rename the old one back to Normal.dot. This would be the most efficient approach if you'd lost more than a couple of AutoText entries (though usually that happens only if you've saved a document as Normal.dot, in which case you have more problems than just AutoText), but in your case recreating the entries was the better way. Ah, this somehow keeps everything else about your customized Normal.dot? That's the impression I get from above. Yes, if it does that, that will be a good thing to know because after this thread, I went and opened various Word installations that I could get into and saw that autotext varies from installation to installation. This is the first time I'd been without the pathname (something I use consistently and has never not been there which is why I never noticed this behaviour). Thanks! -- 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. "StargateFan" wrote in message .. . On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 23:03:43 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Well, you could rename Normal.dot, or you could create them yourself; they're just { FILENAME } and { FILENAME \p } fields. The second option sounds like a winner as I couldn't live without my normal.dot! g As always, I'll try to see what I can find in the help and on the web. I don't have a whole lot of luck with these types of searches, but I always try. g Thanks. -- 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. "StargateFan" wrote in message .. . I don't know where these have gone to in my current normal.dot, but they're gone. Is there a way to get these back? Thanks. |
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Yes, this preserves all your other customizations because you are
(ultimately) keeping your original Normal.dot (assuming it has not been overwritten by a document). -- 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. "StargateFan" wrote in message ... On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 07:57:19 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: For future reference, you can rename Normal.dot, copy the relevant AutoText entries from the new Normal.dot to the renamed one, then delete the new one and rename the old one back to Normal.dot. This would be the most efficient approach if you'd lost more than a couple of AutoText entries (though usually that happens only if you've saved a document as Normal.dot, in which case you have more problems than just AutoText), but in your case recreating the entries was the better way. Ah, this somehow keeps everything else about your customized Normal.dot? That's the impression I get from above. Yes, if it does that, that will be a good thing to know because after this thread, I went and opened various Word installations that I could get into and saw that autotext varies from installation to installation. This is the first time I'd been without the pathname (something I use consistently and has never not been there which is why I never noticed this behaviour). Thanks! -- 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. "StargateFan" wrote in message .. . On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 23:03:43 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Well, you could rename Normal.dot, or you could create them yourself; they're just { FILENAME } and { FILENAME \p } fields. The second option sounds like a winner as I couldn't live without my normal.dot! g As always, I'll try to see what I can find in the help and on the web. I don't have a whole lot of luck with these types of searches, but I always try. g Thanks. -- 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. "StargateFan" wrote in message .. . I don't know where these have gone to in my current normal.dot, but they're gone. Is there a way to get these back? Thanks. |
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Kewl! Neato-o trick. Thanks!
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 10:10:46 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Yes, this preserves all your other customizations because you are (ultimately) keeping your original Normal.dot (assuming it has not been overwritten by a document). -- 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. "StargateFan" wrote in message .. . On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 07:57:19 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: For future reference, you can rename Normal.dot, copy the relevant AutoText entries from the new Normal.dot to the renamed one, then delete the new one and rename the old one back to Normal.dot. This would be the most efficient approach if you'd lost more than a couple of AutoText entries (though usually that happens only if you've saved a document as Normal.dot, in which case you have more problems than just AutoText), but in your case recreating the entries was the better way. Ah, this somehow keeps everything else about your customized Normal.dot? That's the impression I get from above. Yes, if it does that, that will be a good thing to know because after this thread, I went and opened various Word installations that I could get into and saw that autotext varies from installation to installation. This is the first time I'd been without the pathname (something I use consistently and has never not been there which is why I never noticed this behaviour). Thanks! -- 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. "StargateFan" wrote in message .. . On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 23:03:43 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Well, you could rename Normal.dot, or you could create them yourself; they're just { FILENAME } and { FILENAME \p } fields. The second option sounds like a winner as I couldn't live without my normal.dot! g As always, I'll try to see what I can find in the help and on the web. I don't have a whole lot of luck with these types of searches, but I always try. g Thanks. -- 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. "StargateFan" wrote in message .. . I don't know where these have gone to in my current normal.dot, but they're gone. Is there a way to get these back? Thanks. |
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