Autotext entry with sequence field on different PCs

[Brian]

I am working on a document which has Autotext entries incorporating a
sequence field. I wrote it in Word 2000, but when I took the document to
another PC running (I think) Word 2003, I was unable to create more Autotext
entries of this type.

I found that the tag I was using "qtag" in this case was not being
recognised as an Autotext entry.

Is there any way around this?

 

[Jay Freedman]

AutoText entries can't be stored in documents, they must be in
templates. You took this document from one PC to another, but you
didn't bring along the template it was based on (or normal.dot, if
that's which template contains the AutoText), so the second PC has no
idea what you're talking about.

Do NOT try to copy normal.dot from one PC to the other unless you're
the only user of both machines. Instead, make a new template to take
along. You can copy AutoText from one template to the other by using
the Organizer (in Tools > Templates & Add-Ins, click the button at the
bottom). Then on the second PC you can either load the template
through the Templates & Add-Ins dialog, or place the template in
Word's Startup folder so it always loads when Word starts.

Read:
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AutoText.htm
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/WhatTemplatesStore.htm
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/DistributeMacros.htm

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[Brian]

Many thanks for your help.

AutoText entries can't be stored in documents, they must be in
templates. You took this document from one PC to another, but you
didn't bring along the template it was based on (or normal.dot, if
that's which template contains the AutoText), so the second PC has no
idea what you're talking about.

Do NOT try to copy normal.dot from one PC to the other unless you're
the only user of both machines. Instead, make a new template to take
along. You can copy AutoText from one template to the other by using
the Organizer (in Tools > Templates & Add-Ins, click the button at the
bottom). Then on the second PC you can either load the template
through the Templates & Add-Ins dialog, or place the template in
Word's Startup folder so it always loads when Word starts.

Read:
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AutoText.htm
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/WhatTemplatesStore.htm
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/DistributeMacros.htm

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Move the AutoText entry from the original computer to the new one (or in the
case of a single entry, save the SEQ field as an AT entry on the new
comptuter). 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




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