Problems transferring Autocorrect entries to another computer

[D4P]

Hi all.

I have been attempting to transfer Autocorrect entries from an ol
laptop to a new one, and have had only partial success.

I have some Word files on the new laptop that I transferred from th
old. When I open one of those old files on the new laptop, th
transferred Autocorrect entries work.

But when I open a new Word file on the new laptop, the transferre
Autocorrect entries DO NOT work.

Any suggestions

 

[Beth Melton]

If AutoCorrect works on some documents but not others then check your
proofing language. AutoCorrect entries aren't document specific but they are
language specific.

~Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

 

[Jay Freedman]

Which version of Word do you have? Is it the same version on both
computers? Exactly which files did you transfer, and how did you do
it?

See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/ExportAutocorrect.htm
for procedures.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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newsgroup so all may benefit.

 

[D4P]

I'm using Word 2000 on each machine. The files are just a random
assortment of various Word files I created on the old machine, that I
transferred to the new machine over a wireless network.

As per the link you provided, I have tried both methods listed.

 

[Jay Freedman]

I'm using Word 2000 on each machine. The files are just a random
assortment of various Word files I created on the old machine, that I
transferred to the new machine over a wireless network.

As per the link you provided, I have tried both methods listed.

I think Beth Melton's suggestion is probably the correct one. The
language applied to the documents that came from the old machine is
the same as the language of your AutoCorrect entries, so those
documents trigger AutoCorrect replacements. I think the language
applied to the Normal.dot template on the new machine (and therefore
applied to all new documents based on that template) is some other
"language" variant. For example, one may be English UK and the other
English US, or some other combination.

 

[D4P]

Oops, I hadn't seen Beth's comment when I responded to Jay's

It looks like Beth was correct: my new documents were opening up with
different proofing language than my old ones. When I changed th
proofing language, Autocorrect entries started working

So: how do I make a permanent change to the proofing language? I
doesn't seem to save my changes when I change it..

 

[Jay Freedman]

Oops, I hadn't seen Beth's comment when I responded to Jay's.

It looks like Beth was correct: my new documents were opening up with a
different proofing language than my old ones. When I changed the
proofing language, Autocorrect entries started working.

So: how do I make a permanent change to the proofing language? It
doesn't seem to save my changes when I change it...

Open the Normal.dot template by using File > Open and navigating to
the Templates folder (for directions, see
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/BlankDocNotBlank.htm). Select
the single empty paragraph mark and apply the right language to it.
Save and close the template.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

But note that Word will by default use the language selected as the default
in Windows; see http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[D4P]

Everything is working now. Thanks a lot for your help