Why is the autotext function in headers/footers disabled?

[Guest]

In MS Word 2003, the autotext function in the header/footer toolbar is greyed
out and therefore doesn't work. I cannot figure out any way to make it work -
any suggestions gratefully received.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The usual reason for this is that you have saved a document as Normal.dot.
See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/BlankDocNotBlank.htm

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

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