Duplicated Autotext (urgent)

[Guest]

Please help.

In my normal template I have about 100 autotext entries.

I have another template set up for a tender which uses the autotext entries
from my normal.dot. But I want other people to be able to use the autotext
entries in this template when I put the template on a network drive.

I have copied the autotext entries from normal to tender.dot using the
organiser, and it copies them to my tender.dot but repeats them again in
normal.dot so I end up with two copies of each.

I'm desperate to get this sorted out today, can anyone please help?

Thanks in anticipation.

Anita

 

[Jezebel]

Delete them from Normal.dot.

 

[Guest]

I don't want to delete them, there are too many. I need to understand why it
is duplicating them in the first place. Can you offer any advice?

 

[Jezebel]

You've duplicated them, so there's one copy in normal.dot and another copy
in your tender template. You can select a specific source from the 'Look in'
drop down to show the entries in a specific template; but long-term, simpler
is to delete them from Normal.dot if you only need them when you're using
the tender template. You can also use the Organizer to delete them all at
once.

 

[Guest]

I've tried deleting a few from normal and leaving them in the tender
template. When I delete them from normal and create a new document based on
the tender template they've disappeared from the tender template aswell, and
I definitely didn't delete them from there.

I copied them from normal to the tender template using organiser then
deleted them from normal.

What's going on?

I'm really confused !

(thanks for help by the way)

 

[Guest]

And... even stranger is that when I go into Organiser the autotext entries
in the tender document are listed (but not under normal which is fine). So
if I can see them in Organiser for the tender document why aren't they listed
in the All Entries button on the AutoText toolbar? Surely I don't have to
have them stored also in Normal ???

 

[Charles Kenyon]

You can also use the organizer, or the AutoText dialog, to delete the
entries from your normal.dot. See also my response to your other post on a
related topic.
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[Jezebel]

Having deleted them from normal, when you display the list of AutoText
entries, do you have "All active templates" selected in the "Look in" drop
down?