Auto Text Stopped Working

[Guest]

On my home computer and both my two office PC's the Auto Text feature stopped
working anod no longer helps out with dates or salutations. I have office
pro 2003 on all three machines and windows xp. This is puzzling? The "show
auto complete suggestions" box is clicked on but nothing works. Strangely
enough this happend about the first of the year but I don't know if this is
an actual program glitch or something else. By the way... the school where
my wife works is having the same issue with their PC's. Help anyone?

 

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

First place to look is your Normal template, and see if the AutoText entries
are actually still there.

Go to Insert>AutoText>AutoText... and tell me what items you see in that
list...

Cheers

On my home computer and both my two office PC's the Auto Text feature stopped
working anod no longer helps out with dates or salutations. I have office
pro 2003 on all three machines and windows xp. This is puzzling? The "show
auto complete suggestions" box is clicked on but nothing works. Strangely
enough this happend about the first of the year but I don't know if this is
an actual program glitch or something else. By the way... the school where
my wife works is having the same issue with their PC's. Help anyone?

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Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email
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

 

[Guest]

John,

Thanks for the reply!

All of the Auto Text entries are there on all three PC's. The normal
salutations such as To Whom It May Concern and so on. That's actually the
first thing I checked. Also the "complete suggestions" box is checked so it
shoud be working. I even unchecked the box exited out of WORD then went back
and rechecked the box but it did not resolve the problem.

First place to look is your Normal template, and see if the AutoText entries
are actually still there.

Go to Insert>AutoText>AutoText... and tell me what items you see in that
list...

Cheers

On my home computer and both my two office PC's the Auto Text feature stopped
working anod no longer helps out with dates or salutations. I have office
pro 2003 on all three machines and windows xp. This is puzzling? The "show
auto complete suggestions" box is clicked on but nothing works. Strangely
enough this happend about the first of the year but I don't know if this is
an actual program glitch or something else. By the way... the school where
my wife works is having the same issue with their PC's. Help anyone?

--

Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email
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