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Changing an Autotext Entry
Word 2002 - the Autotext entry does not change after changing it!
I have an entry on the Autotext menu that says Company Signature - GBP Computing. If I choose "Insert-Autotext-Signature Company-GBP Computing" I get just that - "GBP Computing". Following the Help instructions, I insert that signature, overwrite it with the one I want, select the text, go to "Insert-Autotext-New", name it "Signature Company", click OK and I get a box that says "Do you want to redefine the Autotext Entry". I click "Yes" but nothing changes! What am I doing wrong? -- Interim Systems and Management Accounting Gordon Burgess-Parker Director www.gbpcomputing.co.uk |
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Gordon wrote:
Word 2002 - the Autotext entry does not change after changing it! I have an entry on the Autotext menu that says Company Signature - GBP Computing. If I choose "Insert-Autotext-Signature Company-GBP Computing" I get just that - "GBP Computing". Following the Help instructions, I insert that signature, overwrite it with the one I want, select the text, go to "Insert-Autotext-New", name it "Signature Company", click OK and I get a box that says "Do you want to redefine the Autotext Entry". I click "Yes" but nothing changes! What am I doing wrong? I've just noticed it's saved it under "Autotext-Normal". How do I get it to save under "Signature Company"? -- Interim Systems and Management Accounting Gordon Burgess-Parker Director www.gbpcomputing.co.uk |
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When you select Insert, AutoText, AutoText, at the bottom of the dialog
there's a box 'Look in...'. If you click on that box you will see a list of active templates. Select the correct template and then overwrite it. -- Terry Farrell - Word MVP http://word.mvps.org/ "Gordon" wrote in message ... : Gordon wrote: : Word 2002 - the Autotext entry does not change after changing it! : I have an entry on the Autotext menu that says Company Signature - GBP : Computing. If I choose "Insert-Autotext-Signature Company-GBP Computing" : I get just that - "GBP Computing". Following the Help instructions, I : insert that signature, overwrite it with the one I want, select the : text, go to "Insert-Autotext-New", name it "Signature Company", click OK : and I get a box that says "Do you want to redefine the Autotext Entry". : I click "Yes" but nothing changes! What am I doing wrong? : I've just noticed it's saved it under "Autotext-Normal". How do I get it : to save under "Signature Company"? : : -- : Interim Systems and Management Accounting : Gordon Burgess-Parker : Director : www.gbpcomputing.co.uk |
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TF wrote:
When you select Insert, AutoText, AutoText, at the bottom of the dialog there's a box 'Look in...'. If you click on that box you will see a list of active templates. Select the correct template and then overwrite it. if I do that I only get two options, Normal or All Active templates. I don see any of the categories as templates that are in the drop-down Autotext box, such as Attention, Mailing Instructions, Header/Footer, Salutation, etc etc. I've now lost the "Signature Company GBP Computing" as a separate category, although that now appears under "Normal" with the correct text in it! -- Interim Systems and Management Accounting Gordon Burgess-Parker Director www.gbpcomputing.co.uk |
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The categories in the AutoText menu are based on the Style of the original
entry. normal is such a style. There is also the normal.dot template. -- 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. "Gordon" wrote in message ... TF wrote: When you select Insert, AutoText, AutoText, at the bottom of the dialog there's a box 'Look in...'. If you click on that box you will see a list of active templates. Select the correct template and then overwrite it. if I do that I only get two options, Normal or All Active templates. I don see any of the categories as templates that are in the drop-down Autotext box, such as Attention, Mailing Instructions, Header/Footer, Salutation, etc etc. I've now lost the "Signature Company GBP Computing" as a separate category, although that now appears under "Normal" with the correct text in it! -- Interim Systems and Management Accounting Gordon Burgess-Parker Director www.gbpcomputing.co.uk |
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"Gordon" wrote in message ... I've just noticed it's saved it under "Autotext-Normal". How do I get it to save under "Signature Company"? Hi Gordon Make sure the signature text is in a paragraph of style "Signature Company" before you select and add it as AutoText. The menu groupings are based on styles. -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org |
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