Header/Footer Insert Autotext disabled?

[Guest]

I want to select filename option to place in footer of my template Word doc
so I don't have to go to Tools>Insert Field> select Filename for every new
doc.
The item called Autotext is grayed out (disabled) in the Header/Footer
window. I am running Office Pro 2000 on WinXP Pro with SP2. I have
searched Help and the Knoledge Base for clues but found none. I had used
this feature when I was running the same product on my old slow Win98
machine. I'd guess somewhere I need to load something or other. Help would
be appreciated.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Either you have "Look in" set to something other than "All active templates"
in Insert | AutoText | AutoText, or you have overwritten Normal.dot with a
document or another template.

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

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[Guest]

Suzanne,
I have created a new Normal.dot with custom margins and desired font. It
replaced the default Normal.dot. In past I was able to do that. I checked
Insert>AutoCorrect>Autotext and Look In was set to All active templates, I
changed it to Normal.dot (global template) the only other choice in the drop
down. It did not affect my problem. I closed Word and re-launched and that
setting changed back to All active template from Normal.dot.

Is it clear, the Header/Footer control window has grayed out Insert AutoText
which I believe has choice to insert the filename as a field in my footer.
Once set in the Normal.dot, when I create a new document and save it, the
filename would progogate the header location where I inserted the filename
field.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Normal.dot cannot be created by users, only by Word itself. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/CustomizeNormalTemplate.htm and
“WD2002: Styles and AutoText Are Not Copied to New Template Based on
Normal.dot†at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=291441

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

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[Guest]

Thanks. It may have been a previous version of Word that I was able to
change Normal.dot. Thanks for stearing me to these valuable docs. I
appreciate your help, I only wish search tools were more intuitive that I
could more often be successful finding the little morsels that I need when I
need them!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It has never been possible for ordinary mortals to "create" Normal.dot. You
can certainly edit it, and you can force Word to create it from scratch, but
you can't substitute your personal template for Normal.dot without adverse
consequences.

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

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