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Can You Conver Autotext from Office 03 to Office 07
The company I am employed by just updated all office pc's to Office 2007. I
am a biologist who over the years has been creating autotext entries for hundreds of scientific names for plant and animal species. I am aware that the entire autotext data is a template (normal.dot). In the past I have lost all my autotext data due to hard drive re-imaging but was able to save the normal.dot file and reload it after the re-imaging was complete. Is there a way for me to retreive my autotext entries from Office 2003? I've tried to load the normal. dot file in the word options/add-ins/word add ins path but was not successful. The entries still do not appear in the building blocks window. Please help. Tim Horton |
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Can You Conver Autotext from Office 03 to Office 07
First (outside of Word) make a copy of the old Normal.dot and rename it to
something like Autotext.dot. Store the original Normal.dot somewhere else for safekeeping and remove it from the Templates folder. Open the Autotext.dot in Word 2007. Open the macro editor and remove all macros from it (any you want to keep should be moved to the Normal.dotm template created by Word 2007's installation). After closing the macro editor, click the Office button and choose Convert, then save as Autotext.dotx. (That changes the file format to the new XML-based format.) Close Word. Move Autotext.dotx from its current location to the folder %appdata%\Microsoft\Document Building Blocks When you restart Word, you'll find your autotext entries in the Building Blocks organizer. -- Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org "Tim Horton" wrote: The company I am employed by just updated all office pc's to Office 2007. I am a biologist who over the years has been creating autotext entries for hundreds of scientific names for plant and animal species. I am aware that the entire autotext data is a template (normal.dot). In the past I have lost all my autotext data due to hard drive re-imaging but was able to save the normal.dot file and reload it after the re-imaging was complete. Is there a way for me to retreive my autotext entries from Office 2003? I've tried to load the normal. dot file in the word options/add-ins/word add ins path but was not successful. The entries still do not appear in the building blocks window. Please help. Tim Horton |
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