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how do I keep my autocorrects from erasing?
Every time I close my word and re-open it my autocorrects that I have just
added are not there. I do not know why they keep erasing. I have tried with all 3 macro security settings and this is not helping either. Any suggestiongs? I was not having this problem until I changed to Office 2003 |
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Are these AutoCorrect entries or AutoText? If AutoCorrect, are they
formatted AutoCorrect entries? Do you have Acrobat 7 installed? -- 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. "Aspen" wrote in message ... Every time I close my word and re-open it my autocorrects that I have just added are not there. I do not know why they keep erasing. I have tried with all 3 macro security settings and this is not helping either. Any suggestiongs? I was not having this problem until I changed to Office 2003 |
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On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:01:06 -0700, "Aspen"
wrote: Every time I close my word and re-open it my autocorrects that I have just added are not there. I do not know why they keep erasing. I have tried with all 3 macro security settings and this is not helping either. Any suggestiongs? I was not having this problem until I changed to Office 2003 Formatted AutoCorrect entries are stored in the Normal.dot template, and unformatted entries are stored in .ACL files. Can you determine whether the problem occurs with one type or the other, or both? If it's the formatted ones, that indicates a problem in saving Normal.dot. Lately the most common cause of this seems to be the add-in from Adobe Acrobat 7.0, but it could also be that the file is set to be read-only. If it's the unformatted ones, you may have a corrupted .ACL file. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...utocorrect.htm for information about how to find it and -- once you fix the problem -- how to back up the entries. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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does that mean I have to uninstall Acrobat 7.0?
And its the autocorrect ones that you create yourself and add to autocorrect to create shortcuts for yourself.. like if I wanted to type dog but I put in the shortcut d,, as a shortcut for that word... I have some of the autocorrects that I created which are there, though the rest that I try to create recently are not there. "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:01:06 -0700, "Aspen" wrote: Every time I close my word and re-open it my autocorrects that I have just added are not there. I do not know why they keep erasing. I have tried with all 3 macro security settings and this is not helping either. Any suggestiongs? I was not having this problem until I changed to Office 2003 Formatted AutoCorrect entries are stored in the Normal.dot template, and unformatted entries are stored in .ACL files. Can you determine whether the problem occurs with one type or the other, or both? If it's the formatted ones, that indicates a problem in saving Normal.dot. Lately the most common cause of this seems to be the add-in from Adobe Acrobat 7.0, but it could also be that the file is set to be read-only. If it's the unformatted ones, you may have a corrupted .ACL file. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...utocorrect.htm for information about how to find it and -- once you fix the problem -- how to back up the entries. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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No, you shouldn't have to uninstall all of Acrobat 7, just the add-in for
Word. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Aspen wrote: does that mean I have to uninstall Acrobat 7.0? And its the autocorrect ones that you create yourself and add to autocorrect to create shortcuts for yourself.. like if I wanted to type dog but I put in the shortcut d,, as a shortcut for that word... I have some of the autocorrects that I created which are there, though the rest that I try to create recently are not there. "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:01:06 -0700, "Aspen" wrote: Every time I close my word and re-open it my autocorrects that I have just added are not there. I do not know why they keep erasing. I have tried with all 3 macro security settings and this is not helping either. Any suggestiongs? I was not having this problem until I changed to Office 2003 Formatted AutoCorrect entries are stored in the Normal.dot template, and unformatted entries are stored in .ACL files. Can you determine whether the problem occurs with one type or the other, or both? If it's the formatted ones, that indicates a problem in saving Normal.dot. Lately the most common cause of this seems to be the add-in from Adobe Acrobat 7.0, but it could also be that the file is set to be read-only. If it's the unformatted ones, you may have a corrupted .ACL file. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...utocorrect.htm for information about how to find it and -- once you fix the problem -- how to back up the entries. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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does that mean I have to uninstall Acrobat 7.0?
See the last section of http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm And its the autocorrect ones that you create yourself and add to autocorrect to create shortcuts for yourself.. like if I wanted to type dog but I put in Obviously you don't understand the distinction between formatted and unformatted AutoCorrect entries. -- 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. "Aspen" wrote in message ... does that mean I have to uninstall Acrobat 7.0? And its the autocorrect ones that you create yourself and add to autocorrect to create shortcuts for yourself.. like if I wanted to type dog but I put in the shortcut d,, as a shortcut for that word... I have some of the autocorrects that I created which are there, though the rest that I try to create recently are not there. "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:01:06 -0700, "Aspen" wrote: Every time I close my word and re-open it my autocorrects that I have just added are not there. I do not know why they keep erasing. I have tried with all 3 macro security settings and this is not helping either. Any suggestiongs? I was not having this problem until I changed to Office 2003 Formatted AutoCorrect entries are stored in the Normal.dot template, and unformatted entries are stored in .ACL files. Can you determine whether the problem occurs with one type or the other, or both? If it's the formatted ones, that indicates a problem in saving Normal.dot. Lately the most common cause of this seems to be the add-in from Adobe Acrobat 7.0, but it could also be that the file is set to be read-only. If it's the unformatted ones, you may have a corrupted .ACL file. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...utocorrect.htm for information about how to find it and -- once you fix the problem -- how to back up the entries. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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The thing is though that I had acrobat 7 and word installed at the same time.
Only some of my autocorrects are staying? How do I uninstall the add-ins? I have checked out the other reply from Suzanne and tried what it says to do, even installed what it said to install and still it was not working.. "Jay Freedman" wrote: No, you shouldn't have to uninstall all of Acrobat 7, just the add-in for Word. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Aspen wrote: does that mean I have to uninstall Acrobat 7.0? And its the autocorrect ones that you create yourself and add to autocorrect to create shortcuts for yourself.. like if I wanted to type dog but I put in the shortcut d,, as a shortcut for that word... I have some of the autocorrects that I created which are there, though the rest that I try to create recently are not there. "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:01:06 -0700, "Aspen" wrote: Every time I close my word and re-open it my autocorrects that I have just added are not there. I do not know why they keep erasing. I have tried with all 3 macro security settings and this is not helping either. Any suggestiongs? I was not having this problem until I changed to Office 2003 Formatted AutoCorrect entries are stored in the Normal.dot template, and unformatted entries are stored in .ACL files. Can you determine whether the problem occurs with one type or the other, or both? If it's the formatted ones, that indicates a problem in saving Normal.dot. Lately the most common cause of this seems to be the add-in from Adobe Acrobat 7.0, but it could also be that the file is set to be read-only. If it's the unformatted ones, you may have a corrupted .ACL file. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...utocorrect.htm for information about how to find it and -- once you fix the problem -- how to back up the entries. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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What my reply said to do was to read the last section of
http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm. Did you "try" to do that? -- 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. "Aspen" wrote in message ... The thing is though that I had acrobat 7 and word installed at the same time. Only some of my autocorrects are staying? How do I uninstall the add-ins? I have checked out the other reply from Suzanne and tried what it says to do, even installed what it said to install and still it was not working.. "Jay Freedman" wrote: No, you shouldn't have to uninstall all of Acrobat 7, just the add-in for Word. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Aspen wrote: does that mean I have to uninstall Acrobat 7.0? And its the autocorrect ones that you create yourself and add to autocorrect to create shortcuts for yourself.. like if I wanted to type dog but I put in the shortcut d,, as a shortcut for that word... I have some of the autocorrects that I created which are there, though the rest that I try to create recently are not there. "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:01:06 -0700, "Aspen" wrote: Every time I close my word and re-open it my autocorrects that I have just added are not there. I do not know why they keep erasing. I have tried with all 3 macro security settings and this is not helping either. Any suggestiongs? I was not having this problem until I changed to Office 2003 Formatted AutoCorrect entries are stored in the Normal.dot template, and unformatted entries are stored in .ACL files. Can you determine whether the problem occurs with one type or the other, or both? If it's the formatted ones, that indicates a problem in saving Normal.dot. Lately the most common cause of this seems to be the add-in from Adobe Acrobat 7.0, but it could also be that the file is set to be read-only. If it's the unformatted ones, you may have a corrupted .ACL file. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...utocorrect.htm for information about how to find it and -- once you fix the problem -- how to back up the entries. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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I tried the 1st one and the other one I couldnt understand exactly. As for
the Hot key, I dont know where to find this And as I said, it would make no sense how some of my autocorrects are there but others arent? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What my reply said to do was to read the last section of http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm. Did you "try" to do that? -- 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. "Aspen" wrote in message ... The thing is though that I had acrobat 7 and word installed at the same time. Only some of my autocorrects are staying? How do I uninstall the add-ins? I have checked out the other reply from Suzanne and tried what it says to do, even installed what it said to install and still it was not working.. "Jay Freedman" wrote: No, you shouldn't have to uninstall all of Acrobat 7, just the add-in for Word. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Aspen wrote: does that mean I have to uninstall Acrobat 7.0? And its the autocorrect ones that you create yourself and add to autocorrect to create shortcuts for yourself.. like if I wanted to type dog but I put in the shortcut d,, as a shortcut for that word... I have some of the autocorrects that I created which are there, though the rest that I try to create recently are not there. "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:01:06 -0700, "Aspen" wrote: Every time I close my word and re-open it my autocorrects that I have just added are not there. I do not know why they keep erasing. I have tried with all 3 macro security settings and this is not helping either. Any suggestiongs? I was not having this problem until I changed to Office 2003 Formatted AutoCorrect entries are stored in the Normal.dot template, and unformatted entries are stored in .ACL files. Can you determine whether the problem occurs with one type or the other, or both? If it's the formatted ones, that indicates a problem in saving Normal.dot. Lately the most common cause of this seems to be the add-in from Adobe Acrobat 7.0, but it could also be that the file is set to be read-only. If it's the unformatted ones, you may have a corrupted .ACL file. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...utocorrect.htm for information about how to find it and -- once you fix the problem -- how to back up the entries. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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If some of your AutoCorrects are formatted and others aren't, only the
formatted ones (which are stored in Normal.dot) would not be saved. -- 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. "Aspen" wrote in message ... I tried the 1st one and the other one I couldnt understand exactly. As for the Hot key, I dont know where to find this And as I said, it would make no sense how some of my autocorrects are there but others arent? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What my reply said to do was to read the last section of http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm. Did you "try" to do that? -- 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. "Aspen" wrote in message ... The thing is though that I had acrobat 7 and word installed at the same time. Only some of my autocorrects are staying? How do I uninstall the add-ins? I have checked out the other reply from Suzanne and tried what it says to do, even installed what it said to install and still it was not working.. "Jay Freedman" wrote: No, you shouldn't have to uninstall all of Acrobat 7, just the add-in for Word. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Aspen wrote: does that mean I have to uninstall Acrobat 7.0? And its the autocorrect ones that you create yourself and add to autocorrect to create shortcuts for yourself.. like if I wanted to type dog but I put in the shortcut d,, as a shortcut for that word... I have some of the autocorrects that I created which are there, though the rest that I try to create recently are not there. "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:01:06 -0700, "Aspen" wrote: Every time I close my word and re-open it my autocorrects that I have just added are not there. I do not know why they keep erasing. I have tried with all 3 macro security settings and this is not helping either. Any suggestiongs? I was not having this problem until I changed to Office 2003 Formatted AutoCorrect entries are stored in the Normal.dot template, and unformatted entries are stored in .ACL files. Can you determine whether the problem occurs with one type or the other, or both? If it's the formatted ones, that indicates a problem in saving Normal.dot. Lately the most common cause of this seems to be the add-in from Adobe Acrobat 7.0, but it could also be that the file is set to be read-only. If it's the unformatted ones, you may have a corrupted .ACL file. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...utocorrect.htm for information about how to find it and -- once you fix the problem -- how to back up the entries. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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I dont understand what the difference is between them? I put them all in the
same way "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If some of your AutoCorrects are formatted and others aren't, only the formatted ones (which are stored in Normal.dot) would not be saved. -- 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. "Aspen" wrote in message ... I tried the 1st one and the other one I couldnt understand exactly. As for the Hot key, I dont know where to find this And as I said, it would make no sense how some of my autocorrects are there but others arent? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What my reply said to do was to read the last section of http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm. Did you "try" to do that? -- 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. "Aspen" wrote in message ... The thing is though that I had acrobat 7 and word installed at the same time. Only some of my autocorrects are staying? How do I uninstall the add-ins? I have checked out the other reply from Suzanne and tried what it says to do, even installed what it said to install and still it was not working.. "Jay Freedman" wrote: No, you shouldn't have to uninstall all of Acrobat 7, just the add-in for Word. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Aspen wrote: does that mean I have to uninstall Acrobat 7.0? And its the autocorrect ones that you create yourself and add to autocorrect to create shortcuts for yourself.. like if I wanted to type dog but I put in the shortcut d,, as a shortcut for that word... I have some of the autocorrects that I created which are there, though the rest that I try to create recently are not there. "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:01:06 -0700, "Aspen" wrote: Every time I close my word and re-open it my autocorrects that I have just added are not there. I do not know why they keep erasing. I have tried with all 3 macro security settings and this is not helping either. Any suggestiongs? I was not having this problem until I changed to Office 2003 Formatted AutoCorrect entries are stored in the Normal.dot template, and unformatted entries are stored in .ACL files. Can you determine whether the problem occurs with one type or the other, or both? If it's the formatted ones, that indicates a problem in saving Normal.dot. Lately the most common cause of this seems to be the add-in from Adobe Acrobat 7.0, but it could also be that the file is set to be read-only. If it's the unformatted ones, you may have a corrupted .ACL file. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...utocorrect.htm for information about how to find it and -- once you fix the problem -- how to back up the entries. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Ordinary AutoCorrect entries do not include any formatting. They are stored
in .acl files and are used by Excel and other Office apps in addition to Word. Formatted AutoCorrect entries are saved in Normal.dot and used only by Word because they contain formatting information such as the font and font size, bold or italic formatting, etc. -- 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. "Aspen" wrote in message ... I dont understand what the difference is between them? I put them all in the same way "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If some of your AutoCorrects are formatted and others aren't, only the formatted ones (which are stored in Normal.dot) would not be saved. -- 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. "Aspen" wrote in message ... I tried the 1st one and the other one I couldnt understand exactly. As for the Hot key, I dont know where to find this And as I said, it would make no sense how some of my autocorrects are there but others arent? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What my reply said to do was to read the last section of http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm. Did you "try" to do that? -- 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. "Aspen" wrote in message ... The thing is though that I had acrobat 7 and word installed at the same time. Only some of my autocorrects are staying? How do I uninstall the add-ins? I have checked out the other reply from Suzanne and tried what it says to do, even installed what it said to install and still it was not working.. "Jay Freedman" wrote: No, you shouldn't have to uninstall all of Acrobat 7, just the add-in for Word. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Aspen wrote: does that mean I have to uninstall Acrobat 7.0? And its the autocorrect ones that you create yourself and add to autocorrect to create shortcuts for yourself.. like if I wanted to type dog but I put in the shortcut d,, as a shortcut for that word... I have some of the autocorrects that I created which are there, though the rest that I try to create recently are not there. "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:01:06 -0700, "Aspen" wrote: Every time I close my word and re-open it my autocorrects that I have just added are not there. I do not know why they keep erasing. I have tried with all 3 macro security settings and this is not helping either. Any suggestiongs? I was not having this problem until I changed to Office 2003 Formatted AutoCorrect entries are stored in the Normal.dot template, and unformatted entries are stored in .ACL files. Can you determine whether the problem occurs with one type or the other, or both? If it's the formatted ones, that indicates a problem in saving Normal.dot. Lately the most common cause of this seems to be the add-in from Adobe Acrobat 7.0, but it could also be that the file is set to be read-only. If it's the unformatted ones, you may have a corrupted .ACL file. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...utocorrect.htm for information about how to find it and -- once you fix the problem -- how to back up the entries. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Oh ok... so then the formatted ones are being erased? Also, I cannot find my
Normal.dot to do the 2nd one on the link you posted "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Ordinary AutoCorrect entries do not include any formatting. They are stored in .acl files and are used by Excel and other Office apps in addition to Word. Formatted AutoCorrect entries are saved in Normal.dot and used only by Word because they contain formatting information such as the font and font size, bold or italic formatting, etc. -- 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. "Aspen" wrote in message ... I dont understand what the difference is between them? I put them all in the same way "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If some of your AutoCorrects are formatted and others aren't, only the formatted ones (which are stored in Normal.dot) would not be saved. -- 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. "Aspen" wrote in message ... I tried the 1st one and the other one I couldnt understand exactly. As for the Hot key, I dont know where to find this And as I said, it would make no sense how some of my autocorrects are there but others arent? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What my reply said to do was to read the last section of http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm. Did you "try" to do that? -- 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. "Aspen" wrote in message ... The thing is though that I had acrobat 7 and word installed at the same time. Only some of my autocorrects are staying? How do I uninstall the add-ins? I have checked out the other reply from Suzanne and tried what it says to do, even installed what it said to install and still it was not working.. "Jay Freedman" wrote: No, you shouldn't have to uninstall all of Acrobat 7, just the add-in for Word. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Aspen wrote: does that mean I have to uninstall Acrobat 7.0? And its the autocorrect ones that you create yourself and add to autocorrect to create shortcuts for yourself.. like if I wanted to type dog but I put in the shortcut d,, as a shortcut for that word... I have some of the autocorrects that I created which are there, though the rest that I try to create recently are not there. "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:01:06 -0700, "Aspen" wrote: Every time I close my word and re-open it my autocorrects that I have just added are not there. I do not know why they keep erasing. I have tried with all 3 macro security settings and this is not helping either. Any suggestiongs? I was not having this problem until I changed to Office 2003 Formatted AutoCorrect entries are stored in the Normal.dot template, and unformatted entries are stored in .ACL files. Can you determine whether the problem occurs with one type or the other, or both? If it's the formatted ones, that indicates a problem in saving Normal.dot. Lately the most common cause of this seems to be the add-in from Adobe Acrobat 7.0, but it could also be that the file is set to be read-only. If it's the unformatted ones, you may have a corrupted .ACL file. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...utocorrect.htm for information about how to find it and -- once you fix the problem -- how to back up the entries. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Shift+File | Save All will save Normal.dot without any need to find it, but
if you have other reasons for trying to locate it, find instructions at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm -- 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. "Aspen" wrote in message ... Oh ok... so then the formatted ones are being erased? Also, I cannot find my Normal.dot to do the 2nd one on the link you posted "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Ordinary AutoCorrect entries do not include any formatting. They are stored in .acl files and are used by Excel and other Office apps in addition to Word. Formatted AutoCorrect entries are saved in Normal.dot and used only by Word because they contain formatting information such as the font and font size, bold or italic formatting, etc. -- 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. "Aspen" wrote in message ... I dont understand what the difference is between them? I put them all in the same way "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If some of your AutoCorrects are formatted and others aren't, only the formatted ones (which are stored in Normal.dot) would not be saved. -- 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. "Aspen" wrote in message ... I tried the 1st one and the other one I couldnt understand exactly. As for the Hot key, I dont know where to find this And as I said, it would make no sense how some of my autocorrects are there but others arent? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What my reply said to do was to read the last section of http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm. Did you "try" to do that? -- 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. "Aspen" wrote in message ... The thing is though that I had acrobat 7 and word installed at the same time. Only some of my autocorrects are staying? How do I uninstall the add-ins? I have checked out the other reply from Suzanne and tried what it says to do, even installed what it said to install and still it was not working.. "Jay Freedman" wrote: No, you shouldn't have to uninstall all of Acrobat 7, just the add-in for Word. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Aspen wrote: does that mean I have to uninstall Acrobat 7.0? And its the autocorrect ones that you create yourself and add to autocorrect to create shortcuts for yourself.. like if I wanted to type dog but I put in the shortcut d,, as a shortcut for that word... I have some of the autocorrects that I created which are there, though the rest that I try to create recently are not there. "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:01:06 -0700, "Aspen" wrote: Every time I close my word and re-open it my autocorrects that I have just added are not there. I do not know why they keep erasing. I have tried with all 3 macro security settings and this is not helping either. Any suggestiongs? I was not having this problem until I changed to Office 2003 Formatted AutoCorrect entries are stored in the Normal.dot template, and unformatted entries are stored in .ACL files. Can you determine whether the problem occurs with one type or the other, or both? If it's the formatted ones, that indicates a problem in saving Normal.dot. Lately the most common cause of this seems to be the add-in from Adobe Acrobat 7.0, but it could also be that the file is set to be read-only. If it's the unformatted ones, you may have a corrupted ..ACL file. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...utocorrect.htm for information about how to find it and -- once you fix the problem -- how to back up the entries. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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