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Word 207 Building Blocks.dotx
Hi - we are trying to get over the death of AutoText and the birth of
QuickParts - but it isn't easy! Two questions for anyone who knows: a) how can we specify the location of building blocks.dotx? By default it is buried in application data on the c: drive, but we use roaming profiles and this doesn't suit us from a back up or portability point of view at all, and b) where the hell is the option to turn on/off autocomplete tips? The one that used to be in the AutoText tab of AutoComplete in 2003? Thanks in advance... |
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Word 207 Building Blocks.dotx
Vantage wrote:
Hi - we are trying to get over the death of AutoText and the birth of QuickParts - but it isn't easy! Two questions for anyone who knows: a) how can we specify the location of building blocks.dotx? By default it is buried in application data on the c: drive, but we use roaming profiles and this doesn't suit us from a back up or portability point of view at all, and You can add an entry to the registry to tell Office to look in a specified location. Copy the following four lines (including the blank line but not including the "--- cut here ---" lines) and paste them into an empty Notepad document: --- cut here --- Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\C ommon\General] "SharedDocumentParts"="Y:\\WorkGroup Folder\\Document Building Blocks" --- cut here --- Change the path to the right of the equal sign to the desired shared location. Use double backslashes between folder names as shown. Save the file with a .reg extension. On each user's computer, double-click the .reg file and answer yes to the prompt to include the value in the registry. The path you added will be used in addition to the one in the user's Roaming profile. b) where the hell is the option to turn on/off autocomplete tips? The one that used to be in the AutoText tab of AutoComplete in 2003? In Word 2007, the only AutoComplete tips are for dates. There was some kind of last-minute technical problem that led Microsoft to disable them for AutoText. They've been reinstated in Word 2010, which has just finished beta test and will be released later this year. Thanks in advance... -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Word 207 Building Blocks.dotx
Vantage wrote:
Hi - we are trying to get over the death of AutoText and the birth of QuickParts - but it isn't easy! Two questions for anyone who knows: a) how can we specify the location of building blocks.dotx? By default it is buried in application data on the c: drive, but we use roaming profiles and this doesn't suit us from a back up or portability point of view at all, and You can add an entry to the registry to tell Office to look in a specified location. Copy the following four lines (including the blank line but not including the "--- cut here ---" lines) and paste them into an empty Notepad document: --- cut here --- Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\C ommon\General] "SharedDocumentParts"="Y:\\WorkGroup Folder\\Document Building Blocks" --- cut here --- Change the path to the right of the equal sign to the desired shared location. Use double backslashes between folder names as shown. Save the file with a .reg extension. On each user's computer, double-click the .reg file and answer yes to the prompt to include the value in the registry. The path you added will be used in addition to the one in the user's Roaming profile. b) where the hell is the option to turn on/off autocomplete tips? The one that used to be in the AutoText tab of AutoComplete in 2003? In Word 2007, the only AutoComplete tips are for dates. There was some kind of last-minute technical problem that led Microsoft to disable them for AutoText. They've been reinstated in Word 2010, which has just finished beta test and will be released later this year. Thanks in advance... -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Word 207 Building Blocks.dotx
a) As far as I know, you cannot specify the location of Building
Blocks.dotx. But note that you can choose to save your Building Block entries in any template, for example in the Normal template or in a template saved to the Startup folder for Word. b) Word 2007 does *not* support AutoComplete suggestions for AutoTexts or Building Blocks, only for dates. You can turn the feature on and off via a macro: Press Alt+F11 to display the Visual Basic Editor. Press Ctrl+G to active the Immediate window. Type Application.DisplayAutoCompleteTips = False and press Enter (of course, if you are switching on the AutoComplete suggestions, use True instead of False). Then close the Visual Basic Editor. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Vantage" wrote in message ... Hi - we are trying to get over the death of AutoText and the birth of QuickParts - but it isn't easy! Two questions for anyone who knows: a) how can we specify the location of building blocks.dotx? By default it is buried in application data on the c: drive, but we use roaming profiles and this doesn't suit us from a back up or portability point of view at all, and b) where the hell is the option to turn on/off autocomplete tips? The one that used to be in the AutoText tab of AutoComplete in 2003? Thanks in advance... |
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Word 207 Building Blocks.dotx
a) As far as I know, you cannot specify the location of Building
Blocks.dotx. But note that you can choose to save your Building Block entries in any template, for example in the Normal template or in a template saved to the Startup folder for Word. b) Word 2007 does *not* support AutoComplete suggestions for AutoTexts or Building Blocks, only for dates. You can turn the feature on and off via a macro: Press Alt+F11 to display the Visual Basic Editor. Press Ctrl+G to active the Immediate window. Type Application.DisplayAutoCompleteTips = False and press Enter (of course, if you are switching on the AutoComplete suggestions, use True instead of False). Then close the Visual Basic Editor. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Vantage" wrote in message ... Hi - we are trying to get over the death of AutoText and the birth of QuickParts - but it isn't easy! Two questions for anyone who knows: a) how can we specify the location of building blocks.dotx? By default it is buried in application data on the c: drive, but we use roaming profiles and this doesn't suit us from a back up or portability point of view at all, and b) where the hell is the option to turn on/off autocomplete tips? The one that used to be in the AutoText tab of AutoComplete in 2003? Thanks in advance... |
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