Autotext Toolbar

[Guest]

I am trying to make Word 2003 efficient in a law office environment, running
it on Windows XP. Payne's Word 2003 for Law Firms at 109 indicates that the
AutoText toolbar should provide a list of existing entries. But no such list
appears on my AutoText tool bars. Short blank "stubs" pop up from the
general category items on the "All Entries" drop-down box (e.g. Normal), but
certainly no full list of existing entires. Am I doing something wrong or is
this just a feature that doesn't work as promised?

Jill Singer

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This usually results from saving a document as Normal.dot.

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

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[Guest]

I have saved changes (including Autotext entries) to Normal.dot several
times. I haven't added any Autotext entries today. I have only tried to use
the Autotext toolbar to access the ones added (and saved to Normal.dot) on
earlier occasions. The Autotext entries are there and accessible via the
regular Insert - Autotext dialog box route. I just want to take advantage of
the toolbar feature (if it works). I have discovered that I can manually add
my Autotext entries one at a time to a separate drop down list that is under
the toolbar list. But I can't add them to the Normal drop down list, and
there is still nothing showing on those stubs.

These nonworking Microsoft features really bother me. (Particularly coming
from working with 99% fully-functional WordPerfect.)

Jill

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The AutoText toolbar is always going to display the AutoText entries for the
style at the insertion point. If there are no entries for this particular
style (including Normal), you should see All Entries.

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

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