Autotext inserts new Autocorrect style

[Guest]

Hi
Just wondered if anyone had come across this before. Inserting an Autotext
entry add a new style to the document called Autocorrect. This style isn't
used anywhere in any of our Autotext entries.

We are currently rewriting our templates and think we may have inadvertently
added something, but before we spent a long time investigating I wondered if
anyone else had come across this.

We are on Word 2000 (still) but moving shortly to Word 2003

Cheers

 

[AlanKin]

Did you clear this up yet?
AutoText entries are sort of like real long AutoCorrect entries, as
far as I know.
I don't understand what you mean by

(quote)
Inserting an Autotext entry add a new style to the document called
Autocorrect.
(unquote)

Care to elaborate?

Can reach me at info at verbatimit dot com (rather than here - I don't
check mail here often).

Alan Kelly, owner/operator
www.VerbatimIT.com

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Yes, I have seen that, when things are getting a bit corrupted

An AutoText in some respects is a bit like an encapsulated "Document". It
has a full set of properties, including a style table that is independent of
the document's outer style table.

So if you insert an AutoText that contains a style (whether than style is in
use or not) it will add that style to the document's default style table.

I've only seen it once, in a corrupt template that had 40-odd AutoTexts that
had Tables in them that were affected by Tracked Changes.

Hi
Just wondered if anyone had come across this before. Inserting an Autotext
entry add a new style to the document called Autocorrect. This style isn't
used anywhere in any of our Autotext entries.

We are currently rewriting our templates and think we may have inadvertently
added something, but before we spent a long time investigating I wondered if
anyone else had come across this.

We are on Word 2000 (still) but moving shortly to Word 2003

Cheers

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Technical Writer.
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

 

[Guest]

Thanks John, that's really helpful. Any ideas on how to fix it. We were
planning to tidy up our templates and hold all our company wide autotext
entries in a single global template.
Thanks

Yes, I have seen that, when things are getting a bit corrupted

An AutoText in some respects is a bit like an encapsulated "Document". It
has a full set of properties, including a style table that is independent of
the document's outer style table.

So if you insert an AutoText that contains a style (whether than style is in
use or not) it will add that style to the document's default style table.

I've only seen it once, in a corrupt template that had 40-odd AutoTexts that
had Tables in them that were affected by Tracked Changes.

Hi
Just wondered if anyone had come across this before. Inserting an Autotext
entry add a new style to the document called Autocorrect. This style isn't
used anywhere in any of our Autotext entries.

We are currently rewriting our templates and think we may have inadvertently
added something, but before we spent a long time investigating I wondered if
anyone else had come across this.

We are on Word 2000 (still) but moving shortly to Word 2003

Cheers

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me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant
Technical Writer.
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

To fix it, I had to create a new blank default template, then copy the
"good" autotexts over using Organiser.

Finding the "bad" one was the problem.

To begin, quit Word and Outlook and then re-name your Normal.dot template.

When you restart Word, it will create a new blank Normal.

Quit Word immediately, and re-name the new Normal to "New Global Template"
or whatever, then re-name your old Normal back.

Then copy the known good autotexts in from the various templates using
Organiser (look for it in the Help).

Make a copy of the new one at this stage, then start adding the "suspect"
autotexts in, one by one, until the problem reappears. The last one you
added was bad

Throw out the now bad template, make a copy of the good one, and start
copying again, all except the known bad autotext. You may find there is
more than one bad one: in my case I had three bad ones.

You will have to re-create the bad autotexts once you get the good ones
copied over.

Sorry: this can be a long process...

Thanks John, that's really helpful. Any ideas on how to fix it. We were
planning to tidy up our templates and hold all our company wide autotext
entries in a single global template.
Thanks

Yes, I have seen that, when things are getting a bit corrupted

An AutoText in some respects is a bit like an encapsulated "Document". It
has a full set of properties, including a style table that is independent of
the document's outer style table.

So if you insert an AutoText that contains a style (whether than style is in
use or not) it will add that style to the document's default style table.

I've only seen it once, in a corrupt template that had 40-odd AutoTexts that
had Tables in them that were affected by Tracked Changes.

Hi
Just wondered if anyone had come across this before. Inserting an Autotext
entry add a new style to the document called Autocorrect. This style isn't
used anywhere in any of our Autotext entries.

We are currently rewriting our templates and think we may have inadvertently
added something, but before we spent a long time investigating I wondered if
anyone else had come across this.

We are on Word 2000 (still) but moving shortly to Word 2003

Cheers

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John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant
Technical Writer.
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

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Technical Writer.
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410