QuickParts not a substitute for AutocorrectAutotext

RECAP OF WHAT WE POSTED BACK ON 052906

Situation in the past:
For Word/Outlook 2003, we would go ToolsAutocorrectAutotext
to find our stored text information. For 2007, can't find it or our data of
a lot of stored information?

Explanation of what we did:
We used AutocorrectAutotext as a method to store hundreds paragraphs of
text to be used in the body of a response message. These paragraphs, some
including images, are use to respond to customers addressing a specific topic
(ie responding to a person asking a question we have answered in detail
before).

For example, someone may ask about a diamond's clarity and what does it
mean? So we had a page of text (in AutocorrectAutotext ) explaining that
topic in detail.

To type this text every time for every response, would be time consuming and
not very cost effective. So we would just go to "AutocorrectAutotext" pick
the topic titled "Diamond's clarity detailed explanation with images
042705rev" The 042705 being the date we last revised the response text. We
then inserted it into the body of the message.

Questions for the difference between 2003 and 2007:
I can't find our AutocorrectAutotext entries on Outlook 2007 or Word 2007
anywhere (which I think were part of the normal.dot file in Word 2003).

Please don't tell us this is a feature that just went away without warning?
Or instructions as to how to migrate it? If so we just lost hundreds of
hours of text and revisions. My guess is we are not the only ones using the
2003 Word/Outlook AutocorrectAutotext function this way.

Help:
Is there a way to migrate all our AutocorrectAutotext 2003 entries, or is
that hundreds of hours keying over the past several years lost forever?




AS OF TODAY 060406

Much of the feedback we received in this forum, suggested using the new 2007
QuickParts as a replacement. So we did just that!
And after doing that................
We really want to suggest to Microsoft they reconsider including the
AutocorrectAutotext functionality into 2007.




-Bottom line, 2007 QuickParts does not even come close to the ease
and functionality of Word/Outlook 2003 (and ealier versions)
AutocorrectAutotext.
-2007 QuickParts is not easy to work with.
-We painfully manually keyed in/added 60 of our
2003 AutocorrectAutotext entries.
-Over the past 5 days, we used the 2007 QuickParts function
in our e-commerce business e-mail customer correspondence
to access the 60 stored entries. So we used it hands-on!
-Accessing each entry in 2007 QuickParts is nowhere near the ease
of 2003 Word/Outlook AutocorrectAutotext! In fact 2007 QuickParts
is very very very very difficult to use.
-The hardest thing using 2007 QuickParts is accessing each individual
entry of the 60 QuickParts we stored .
-In 2003 AutocorrectAutotext, it was so very easy to access any one of our
individual entries of stored text. Just start keying the first words,
and it filled in all the rest (or you could go retrieve it easily via a
button).
-2007 QuickParts is cumbersome and extremely awkward to use.




SUGGESTIONS
[1] Please Microsoft, bring back the function of 2003 AutocorrectAutotext.
[2] Build some conversion function to bring into 2007 all the 2003
AutocorrectAutotext entries
[3] OR build some tool to be able to quickly access the individual entries
stored in 2007 QuickParts. It will take us hours to repopulate all the
Autotext entries manually, but at least we will not lose the entire function
that 2003 AutocorrectAutotext provided small business and e-commerce
businesses.



Thank you for listening!

Regards,

Greg Gates
www.ringdesigner.com



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Co founder
www.ringdesigner.com

www.ringdesigner.com

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