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header/footer options
I am new to Office 2003 and very annoyed at many settings that I cannot find
to change and things that are different from the Office 97 suite which we upgraded from. Please help....... In the header/footer toolbar (which I use on every document I create to insert the path of the docuement I am creating) the option for "insert autotext" is grayed out. Why would I not have this option, is this some stupid security setting somewhere? Also, just a general comment, which I did also forward to the online Microsoft help. Out of about 10 different occasions in which I tried to use the online help in word, not once did I find what I was looking for. I tried all sorts of different subject headings etc. but to no avail. |
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Chances are that you have altered normal.dot and have lost your AutoText.
Try (with Word closed) renaming normal.dot to normalold.dot. Reopen Word and see if your problem is fixed. Charles Kenyon "Shelley Liebman" wrote in message ... I am new to Office 2003 and very annoyed at many settings that I cannot find to change and things that are different from the Office 97 suite which we upgraded from. Please help....... In the header/footer toolbar (which I use on every document I create to insert the path of the docuement I am creating) the option for "insert autotext" is grayed out. Why would I not have this option, is this some stupid security setting somewhere? Also, just a general comment, which I did also forward to the online Microsoft help. Out of about 10 different occasions in which I tried to use the online help in word, not once did I find what I was looking for. I tried all sorts of different subject headings etc. but to no avail. |
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Hi Shelley,
The only way I was able to get that button grayed out was to delete all the AutoText entries from the Normal.dot template. That also caused the Insert AutoText item on the main menu bar to show only a New AutoText entry instead of the usual list. If this is what you see, then one of the most common ways that could happen is if you saved a regular document as "Normal.dot" in the templates folder. Documents never contain AutoText. (It's possible that it's a real Normal.dot but damaged in some way.) To fix it, shut down Word, find Normal.dot (it should be in C:\Documents and Settings\your name\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates) and rename it to something else. Then restart Word. If necessary you can use the Organizer to copy styles and other items from the old Normal.dot to the new one. I'm not surprised that you didn't find this topic in the help, because it's an abnormal situation. Would you expect your car's owner manual to say "Don't drive the car when its tank is full of orange Jello" and list that in the index? -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Shelley Liebman wrote: I am new to Office 2003 and very annoyed at many settings that I cannot find to change and things that are different from the Office 97 suite which we upgraded from. Please help....... In the header/footer toolbar (which I use on every document I create to insert the path of the docuement I am creating) the option for "insert autotext" is grayed out. Why would I not have this option, is this some stupid security setting somewhere? Also, just a general comment, which I did also forward to the online Microsoft help. Out of about 10 different occasions in which I tried to use the online help in word, not once did I find what I was looking for. I tried all sorts of different subject headings etc. but to no avail. |
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Although it is an anomoly, it seems to be a recurrent one. I would say it
shows up more than twice a week in these newsgroups. Charles Kenyon "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... Hi Shelley, The only way I was able to get that button grayed out was to delete all the AutoText entries from the Normal.dot template. That also caused the Insert AutoText item on the main menu bar to show only a New AutoText entry instead of the usual list. If this is what you see, then one of the most common ways that could happen is if you saved a regular document as "Normal.dot" in the templates folder. Documents never contain AutoText. (It's possible that it's a real Normal.dot but damaged in some way.) To fix it, shut down Word, find Normal.dot (it should be in C:\Documents and Settings\your name\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates) and rename it to something else. Then restart Word. If necessary you can use the Organizer to copy styles and other items from the old Normal.dot to the new one. I'm not surprised that you didn't find this topic in the help, because it's an abnormal situation. Would you expect your car's owner manual to say "Don't drive the car when its tank is full of orange Jello" and list that in the index? -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Shelley Liebman wrote: I am new to Office 2003 and very annoyed at many settings that I cannot find to change and things that are different from the Office 97 suite which we upgraded from. Please help....... In the header/footer toolbar (which I use on every document I create to insert the path of the docuement I am creating) the option for "insert autotext" is grayed out. Why would I not have this option, is this some stupid security setting somewhere? Also, just a general comment, which I did also forward to the online Microsoft help. Out of about 10 different occasions in which I tried to use the online help in word, not once did I find what I was looking for. I tried all sorts of different subject headings etc. but to no avail. |
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Our Microsoft word is coming from the file server, not on my individual pc.
I did find the normal template on the server and renamed it, and then re-opened word again. The header/footer insert autotext is still grayed out. Under the insert menu option autotext, the "new" option is grayed out, but I do have the autotext option there. When I open that, I get a "autocorrect" dialog box with 5 different tabs, but I can't find what I am looking for here. Is this an issue because I am on a network, or do you think that something else is happening to this template? "Jay Freedman" wrote: Hi Shelley, The only way I was able to get that button grayed out was to delete all the AutoText entries from the Normal.dot template. That also caused the Insert AutoText item on the main menu bar to show only a New AutoText entry instead of the usual list. If this is what you see, then one of the most common ways that could happen is if you saved a regular document as "Normal.dot" in the templates folder. Documents never contain AutoText. (It's possible that it's a real Normal.dot but damaged in some way.) To fix it, shut down Word, find Normal.dot (it should be in C:\Documents and Settings\your name\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates) and rename it to something else. Then restart Word. If necessary you can use the Organizer to copy styles and other items from the old Normal.dot to the new one. I'm not surprised that you didn't find this topic in the help, because it's an abnormal situation. Would you expect your car's owner manual to say "Don't drive the car when its tank is full of orange Jello" and list that in the index? -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Shelley Liebman wrote: I am new to Office 2003 and very annoyed at many settings that I cannot find to change and things that are different from the Office 97 suite which we upgraded from. Please help....... In the header/footer toolbar (which I use on every document I create to insert the path of the docuement I am creating) the option for "insert autotext" is grayed out. Why would I not have this option, is this some stupid security setting somewhere? Also, just a general comment, which I did also forward to the online Microsoft help. Out of about 10 different occasions in which I tried to use the online help in word, not once did I find what I was looking for. I tried all sorts of different subject headings etc. but to no avail. |
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Look in the folder listed in
Tools Options File Locations for user templates. That is your normal.dot. Charles Kenyon "Shelley Liebman" wrote in message ... Our Microsoft word is coming from the file server, not on my individual pc. I did find the normal template on the server and renamed it, and then re-opened word again. The header/footer insert autotext is still grayed out. Under the insert menu option autotext, the "new" option is grayed out, but I do have the autotext option there. When I open that, I get a "autocorrect" dialog box with 5 different tabs, but I can't find what I am looking for here. Is this an issue because I am on a network, or do you think that something else is happening to this template? "Jay Freedman" wrote: Hi Shelley, The only way I was able to get that button grayed out was to delete all the AutoText entries from the Normal.dot template. That also caused the Insert AutoText item on the main menu bar to show only a New AutoText entry instead of the usual list. If this is what you see, then one of the most common ways that could happen is if you saved a regular document as "Normal.dot" in the templates folder. Documents never contain AutoText. (It's possible that it's a real Normal.dot but damaged in some way.) To fix it, shut down Word, find Normal.dot (it should be in C:\Documents and Settings\your name\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates) and rename it to something else. Then restart Word. If necessary you can use the Organizer to copy styles and other items from the old Normal.dot to the new one. I'm not surprised that you didn't find this topic in the help, because it's an abnormal situation. Would you expect your car's owner manual to say "Don't drive the car when its tank is full of orange Jello" and list that in the index? -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Shelley Liebman wrote: I am new to Office 2003 and very annoyed at many settings that I cannot find to change and things that are different from the Office 97 suite which we upgraded from. Please help....... In the header/footer toolbar (which I use on every document I create to insert the path of the docuement I am creating) the option for "insert autotext" is grayed out. Why would I not have this option, is this some stupid security setting somewhere? Also, just a general comment, which I did also forward to the online Microsoft help. Out of about 10 different occasions in which I tried to use the online help in word, not once did I find what I was looking for. I tried all sorts of different subject headings etc. but to no avail. |
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I renamed the template, with word closed, re-opened and still am missing the
autotext. After doing this though, I should be able to go to the templates and there should be a new normal.dot correct? Because the old one, (the one I renamed) is still there, but there is no new normal.dot. "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Chances are that you have altered normal.dot and have lost your AutoText. Try (with Word closed) renaming normal.dot to normalold.dot. Reopen Word and see if your problem is fixed. Charles Kenyon "Shelley Liebman" wrote in message ... I am new to Office 2003 and very annoyed at many settings that I cannot find to change and things that are different from the Office 97 suite which we upgraded from. Please help....... In the header/footer toolbar (which I use on every document I create to insert the path of the docuement I am creating) the option for "insert autotext" is grayed out. Why would I not have this option, is this some stupid security setting somewhere? Also, just a general comment, which I did also forward to the online Microsoft help. Out of about 10 different occasions in which I tried to use the online help in word, not once did I find what I was looking for. I tried all sorts of different subject headings etc. but to no avail. |
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Make sure that you are changing the correct normal.dot. Sometimes there is
more than one on your computer. (There should only be one per user.) Look under Tools Options File Locations for the user templates folder. A new normal.dot should be created when you close Word. However, some people have reported that this doesn't happen unless a change is made to the defaults. That your AutoText doesn't appear indicates to me that you didn't find the correct normal.dot for your installation. Charles Kenyon "Shelley Liebman" wrote in message ... I renamed the template, with word closed, re-opened and still am missing the autotext. After doing this though, I should be able to go to the templates and there should be a new normal.dot correct? Because the old one, (the one I renamed) is still there, but there is no new normal.dot. "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Chances are that you have altered normal.dot and have lost your AutoText. Try (with Word closed) renaming normal.dot to normalold.dot. Reopen Word and see if your problem is fixed. Charles Kenyon "Shelley Liebman" wrote in message ... I am new to Office 2003 and very annoyed at many settings that I cannot find to change and things that are different from the Office 97 suite which we upgraded from. Please help....... In the header/footer toolbar (which I use on every document I create to insert the path of the docuement I am creating) the option for "insert autotext" is grayed out. Why would I not have this option, is this some stupid security setting somewhere? Also, just a general comment, which I did also forward to the online Microsoft help. Out of about 10 different occasions in which I tried to use the online help in word, not once did I find what I was looking for. I tried all sorts of different subject headings etc. but to no avail. |
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After doing some more investigation I found that our part time computer guy
messed with the normal template. I was finally able to get the autotext back on my computer--going into the original normal template and using the organizer. But when I open a new document on some of the other computers in house, the autotext is not there--but it is there on some others--very strange and when he comes in next week we will get everything sorted out. Thanks for all the help "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Make sure that you are changing the correct normal.dot. Sometimes there is more than one on your computer. (There should only be one per user.) Look under Tools Options File Locations for the user templates folder. A new normal.dot should be created when you close Word. However, some people have reported that this doesn't happen unless a change is made to the defaults. That your AutoText doesn't appear indicates to me that you didn't find the correct normal.dot for your installation. Charles Kenyon "Shelley Liebman" wrote in message ... I renamed the template, with word closed, re-opened and still am missing the autotext. After doing this though, I should be able to go to the templates and there should be a new normal.dot correct? Because the old one, (the one I renamed) is still there, but there is no new normal.dot. "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Chances are that you have altered normal.dot and have lost your AutoText. Try (with Word closed) renaming normal.dot to normalold.dot. Reopen Word and see if your problem is fixed. Charles Kenyon "Shelley Liebman" wrote in message ... I am new to Office 2003 and very annoyed at many settings that I cannot find to change and things that are different from the Office 97 suite which we upgraded from. Please help....... In the header/footer toolbar (which I use on every document I create to insert the path of the docuement I am creating) the option for "insert autotext" is grayed out. Why would I not have this option, is this some stupid security setting somewhere? Also, just a general comment, which I did also forward to the online Microsoft help. Out of about 10 different occasions in which I tried to use the online help in word, not once did I find what I was looking for. I tried all sorts of different subject headings etc. but to no avail. |
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You are welcome. There are almost always better ways to accomplish a goal
than replacing normal.dot. Have your computer guy do some checking. For sharing customizations, look at http://addbalance.com/word/movetotemplate.htm. -- 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. "Shelley Liebman" wrote in message ... After doing some more investigation I found that our part time computer guy messed with the normal template. I was finally able to get the autotext back on my computer--going into the original normal template and using the organizer. But when I open a new document on some of the other computers in house, the autotext is not there--but it is there on some others--very strange and when he comes in next week we will get everything sorted out. Thanks for all the help "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Make sure that you are changing the correct normal.dot. Sometimes there is more than one on your computer. (There should only be one per user.) Look under Tools Options File Locations for the user templates folder. A new normal.dot should be created when you close Word. However, some people have reported that this doesn't happen unless a change is made to the defaults. That your AutoText doesn't appear indicates to me that you didn't find the correct normal.dot for your installation. Charles Kenyon "Shelley Liebman" wrote in message ... I renamed the template, with word closed, re-opened and still am missing the autotext. After doing this though, I should be able to go to the templates and there should be a new normal.dot correct? Because the old one, (the one I renamed) is still there, but there is no new normal.dot. "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Chances are that you have altered normal.dot and have lost your AutoText. Try (with Word closed) renaming normal.dot to normalold.dot. Reopen Word and see if your problem is fixed. Charles Kenyon "Shelley Liebman" wrote in message ... I am new to Office 2003 and very annoyed at many settings that I cannot find to change and things that are different from the Office 97 suite which we upgraded from. Please help....... In the header/footer toolbar (which I use on every document I create to insert the path of the docuement I am creating) the option for "insert autotext" is grayed out. Why would I not have this option, is this some stupid security setting somewhere? Also, just a general comment, which I did also forward to the online Microsoft help. Out of about 10 different occasions in which I tried to use the online help in word, not once did I find what I was looking for. I tried all sorts of different subject headings etc. but to no avail. |
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