In troubleshooting an intermittent Word not responding problem at exiting, I
have found MS suggestions to delete Auto macors, especially AutoClose and
AutoExit. But no where have I found a description of what they do or how to
get them back. Before I monkey around that far I'd like to know my way back.

See “WD2000: Auto Macros in Word” at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211659

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"ADV" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:55EA1229-40C6-46B2-BDAC-(E-Mail Removed)...
> In troubleshooting an intermittent Word not responding problem at exiting,
I
> have found MS suggestions to delete Auto macors, especially AutoClose and
> AutoExit. But no where have I found a description of what they do or how
to
> get them back. Before I monkey around that far I'd like to know my way
back.

In that article, following the description of automacros link, you get:

"AutoExit
The AutoExit macro runs when you quit Word."

This is not a description. This is not a definition. This tells no one
what AutoExit does, whether it is important, whether you can delete it
safely, or how to get it back if you do delete it.


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

> See “WD2000: Auto Macros in Word” at
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211659
>
> --
> 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.
>
> "ADV" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:55EA1229-40C6-46B2-BDAC-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > In troubleshooting an intermittent Word not responding problem at exiting,
> I
> > have found MS suggestions to delete Auto macors, especially AutoClose and
> > AutoExit. But no where have I found a description of what they do or how
> to
> > get them back. Before I monkey around that far I'd like to know my way
> back.
>
>

Unless you specifically write an Auto macro, there are no Auto macros in any
template. Word doesn't create them -- you do, or some developer creates them
and supplies them to you. That means that an AutoExit macro, if one is
present, does whatever you (or the developer) wrote it to do. If you delete
it, then whatever that was, it won't be done.

Look at it this way: "AutoExit" is just a special name. When Word starts the
process of exiting the program, it checks to see whether a macro exists with
that special name. If it does exist, it gets executed, and it does whatever
it's programmed to do. If it doesn't exist, then Word just continues
shutting down. The same principle is true for the other Auto macro names.

For more information on this topic, read
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...mentEvents.htm and the other
articles linked at the bottom of that page.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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ADV wrote:
> In that article, following the description of automacros link, you
> get:
>
> "AutoExit
> The AutoExit macro runs when you quit Word."
>
> This is not a description. This is not a definition. This tells no
> one what AutoExit does, whether it is important, whether you can
> delete it safely, or how to get it back if you do delete it.
>
>
> "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
>
>> See "WD2000: Auto Macros in Word" at
>> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211659
>>
>> --
>> 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.
>>
>> "ADV" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:55EA1229-40C6-46B2-BDAC-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> In troubleshooting an intermittent Word not responding problem at
>>> exiting, I have found MS suggestions to delete Auto macors,
>>> especially AutoClose and AutoExit. But no where have I found a
>>> description of what they do or how to get them back. Before I
>>> monkey around that far I'd like to know my way back.

Nobody can tell you what YOUR automacros do, because they can do almost
anything.

Dan

ADV wrote:
> In that article, following the description of automacros link, you
> get:
>
> "AutoExit
> The AutoExit macro runs when you quit Word."
>
> This is not a description. This is not a definition. This tells no
> one what AutoExit does, whether it is important, whether you can
> delete it safely, or how to get it back if you do delete it.
>
>
> "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
>
>> See "WD2000: Auto Macros in Word" at
>> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=211659
>>
>> --
>> 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.
>>
>> "ADV" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:55EA1229-40C6-46B2-BDAC-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> In troubleshooting an intermittent Word not responding problem at
>>> exiting, I have found MS suggestions to delete Auto macors,
>>> especially AutoClose and AutoExit. But no where have I found a
>>> description of what they do or how to get them back. Before I
>>> monkey around that far I'd like to know my way back.