Autocorrect

[Guest]

Charles Kenyon asked questions, hope this is the way to answer them. I use Word 2002. I'm not talking AutoText, which I also use. I can open the Autocorrect menu, but my entries are not in it, it's back to its default state, with only the entries provided by Microsoft when you install Office and Word. Yet when I type in a document the autocorrect codes I had (such as px for playwright, anp for Australian National Playwrights' Centre, etc) the codes work. They're just not LISTED any longer in the autocorrect menu, and I had at least a hundred.

Thanks again, Marli

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

AutoCorrect entries are stored in .acl files by language. The only reason I
can think of for not being able to see them would be that the language of
the current document was different from the language used to create the
entries, but unless you are inserting the entries in a document in a
different language, I don't see how that could be relevant. It sounds very
bizarre to me, but I suspect that the answer may lie in the existence of
duplicate .acl files, so you might search for those and see what turns up.
You can open these as text files and examine them using the macro available
at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/ExportAutocorrect.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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Charles Kenyon asked questions, hope this is the way to answer them. I use

Word 2002. I'm not talking AutoText, which I also use. I can open the
Autocorrect menu, but my entries are not in it, it's back to its default
state, with only the entries provided by Microsoft when you install Office
and Word. Yet when I type in a document the autocorrect codes I had (such as
px for playwright, anp for Australian National Playwrights' Centre, etc) the
codes work. They're just not LISTED any longer in the autocorrect menu, and
I had at least a hundred.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, Suzanne. As I regularly use two languages, sometimes three, the first thing I checked was the separate AutoCorrect menus for the different languages, so that's not the problem. I haven't had much luck with the .acl files, or restoring them via the Maacro9, so perhaps this problem will remain a mystery. When I enter a code into AutoCorrect which I used to have but which no longer appears, I'm being asked if I want to replace an existing one. They're there, but not listed.

Marli

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Very bizarre. If you ever get to the bottom of it, please let us know.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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Thanks, Suzanne. As I regularly use two languages, sometimes three, the

first thing I checked was the separate AutoCorrect menus for the different
languages, so that's not the problem. I haven't had much luck with the .acl
files, or restoring them via the Maacro9, so perhaps this problem will
remain a mystery. When I enter a code into AutoCorrect which I used to have
but which no longer appears, I'm being asked if I want to replace an
existing one. They're there, but not listed.