AutoText entries will not save after closing and re-opening MS Wor

[Guest]

When I add new AutoText entries in MS Word I can use them fine but when I
close Word and re-open it the entries are gone and I have to re-do them
again. Is there a fix for this?

 

[garfield-n-odie]

Is Adobe Acrobat 7.0 installed on the computer? If so, the
Acrobat 7.0 Create Adobe PDF toolbar add-in for Word prevents
Word from automatically saving changes to the normal.dot template
(which is where autotext is stored). Create/change the autotext
again, and click "Shift+File | Save All" to force Word to save
the normal.dot template. Alternatively, you can prevent the
add-in from loading as described in the last section of
http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adobe_acrobat_toolbar.htm , but
you'll lose the PDF toolbar if you do this.

 

[Guest]

Garfield,
Thanks for replying so quick. I do have Adobe 7.0 Pro installed. I used the
fix from the tip and link you added and it worked like a Charm.Thanks for the
help.

 

[Guest]

Hi Gordon,

In addtion to garfield's recommendation, you might want to consider the
following.

An alternative that I recommend is never save any customizations in
normal.dot. Word is too vulnerable and frequently replacing normal.dot is a
recommended repair. If this happens you will loose all customizations.

I suggest that you:

1. In word's templates directory rename or delete your normal.dot. The next
time you start word you will have a clean normal.dot. (note that all
customizations to the previous normal.dot will be detleted.

2. Copy this normal.dot to yourname.dot

3. Make any new autotext entries and keyboard shortcuts to yourname.dot.

4. Then if you want your name.dot to be the default template, delete your
normal.dot again and copy yourname.dot back to normal.dat.

However, keep yourname.dot available just in case your normal.dot becomes
corrupted or it needs to be replaced. Then, all you need to do is make a new
normal.dot from yourname.dot. This will recover all you customizations.

I also recommend that the only thing you do with yourname.dot is keep your
customizations there. If you do not open files in yourname.dot, it will never
become corrupted.

Jim

 

[Guest]

One more suggestion: Use Save My Settings Wizard. It saves normal.dot


Tom

 

[Charles Kenyon]

See http://addbalance.com/word/movetotemplate.htm for step-by-step
instructions on moving / sharing / copying / backing-up customizations
including AutoText, AutoCorrect, keyboard assignments, toolbars, macros,
etc.
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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