Word 207 Building Blocks.dotx

[Vantage]

Hi - we are trying to get over the death of AutoText and the birth of
QuickParts - but it isn't easy! Two questions for anyone who knows:

a) how can we specify the location of building blocks.dotx? By
default it is buried in application data on the c: drive, but we use
roaming profiles and this doesn't suit us from a back up or
portability point of view at all, and

b) where the hell is the option to turn on/off autocomplete tips? The
one that used to be in the AutoText tab of AutoComplete in 2003?

Thanks in advance...

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi - we are trying to get over the death of AutoText and the birth of
QuickParts - but it isn't easy! Two questions for anyone who knows:

a) how can we specify the location of building blocks.dotx? By
default it is buried in application data on the c: drive, but we use
roaming profiles and this doesn't suit us from a back up or
portability point of view at all, and

You can add an entry to the registry to tell Office to look in a specified
location. Copy the following four lines (including the blank line but not
including the "--- cut here ---" lines) and paste them into an empty Notepad
document:
--- cut here ---
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\General]
"SharedDocumentParts"="Y:\\WorkGroup Folder\\Document Building Blocks"
--- cut here ---
Change the path to the right of the equal sign to the desired shared
location. Use double backslashes between folder names as shown. Save the
file with a .reg extension.

On each user's computer, double-click the .reg file and answer yes to the
prompt to include the value in the registry. The path you added will be used
in addition to the one in the user's Roaming profile.

b) where the hell is the option to turn on/off autocomplete tips? The
one that used to be in the AutoText tab of AutoComplete in 2003?

In Word 2007, the only AutoComplete tips are for dates. There was some kind
of last-minute technical problem that led Microsoft to disable them for
AutoText. They've been reinstated in Word 2010, which has just finished beta
test and will be released later this year.

Thanks in advance...

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Stefan Blom]

a) As far as I know, you cannot specify the location of Building
Blocks.dotx. But note that you can choose to save your Building Block
entries in any template, for example in the Normal template or in a template
saved to the Startup folder for Word.

b) Word 2007 does *not* support AutoComplete suggestions for AutoTexts or
Building Blocks, only for dates. You can turn the feature on and off via a
macro: Press Alt+F11 to display the Visual Basic Editor. Press Ctrl+G to
active the Immediate window. Type

Application.DisplayAutoCompleteTips = False

and press Enter (of course, if you are switching on the AutoComplete
suggestions, use True instead of False). Then close the Visual Basic Editor.