Word 2007 sharing Auto Text

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If my office has used a template to share auto text entries via our old
version of Office/Word 2000

Are we able to "share" auto text entries with the 2007 Office version?

If so, how?

Thank you
 
Hi =?Utf-8?B?Sm9obg==?=,
If my office has used a template to share auto text entries via our old
version of Office/Word 2000

Are we able to "share" auto text entries with the 2007 Office version?

If so, how?
It should be possible in pretty much the same way. How, more exactly, did
you have this "sharing" set up in Office 2000?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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Currently most of our computers are running (Office 2000) Word 2000.
I have a template that I "pass" all the auto text, toolbars and macros
entries from my computer (under Normal.dot).

I then go to each of the other office computers open the Organizer and
delete any necessary entries (like auto text entries) from their individual
Normal.dot side and open the template from above (on our server) that I have
passed info to.

The problem with Word 2007 is that it only allows for this method to "pass"
macros. There is no tab for the autotext and obviously toolbars are not
available.

Thank you,
 
Hi John,
Currently most of our computers are running (Office 2000) Word 2000.
I have a template that I "pass" all the auto text, toolbars and macros
entries from my computer (under Normal.dot).

I then go to each of the other office computers open the Organizer and
delete any necessary entries (like auto text entries) from their individual
Normal.dot side and open the template from above (on our server) that I have
passed info to.

The problem with Word 2007 is that it only allows for this method to "pass"
macros. There is no tab for the autotext and obviously toolbars are not
available.
Aha. Have you ever tried placing the template with the "shared" items in the
users' STARTUP folder? (In this case, it should not be named Normal.dot) That
would have the following advantages

- Fewer steps for you.
- You won't need to alter/remove the users' own customizations
- The users would be less likely to access/change what you provide (they
wouldn't be able to open a macro and edit it, for example)

In addition, Office 2007 provides for other ways to distribute "building
blocks". You might want to read the entries in the Word Team's blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_office_word

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-)
 
Thanks again for your recent reply to my request for info. I will give the
blog a look. I did not even know it existed.

I do have one question with regard to your suggestion of placing the
template in each "users" startup folder. If I do so, do they have to choose
to access that template info or will it be available all the time to each
user regardless of which document they choose to open?

I need a solution that makes the auto text entries in my template to be
"always on" or always available to each user.

Thank you for your continued help. I very much appreciate being able to ask
questions of experts.

John
 
Hi John,
I do have one question with regard to your suggestion of placing the
template in each "users" startup folder. If I do so, do they have to choose
to access that template info or will it be available all the time to each
user regardless of which document they choose to open?
Templates in the Startup folder location should load automatically when Word
starts (unless the user is starting in Safe Mode). You should find more general
information on "template add-ins" and distributing things in templates at
word.mvps.org (although it may talk more about macros than AutoText).

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply
in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-)
 

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