Charles
Mon Aug 23 11:30:59 CDT 2004
See
http://addbalance.com/word/movetotemplate.htm for step-by-step
instructions on moving / sharing / copying customizations including
AutoText, AutoCorrect, keyboard assignments, macros, etc. This uses a
different global template than normal.dot.
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Charles Kenyon
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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide)
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See also the MVP FAQ:
http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Beth Melton" <bmelton@NoSpam4Memvps.org> wrote in message
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> Is it possible a new Normal.dot is being created by saving a document
> as Normal.dot? Doing so will remove the AutoText entries.
>
> Personally, since you do have so many AutoText entries I would store
> them in a global template. It isn't a matter of file size limitation
> but if they are important entries then placing them in a global
> template will offer more protection.
>
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> "Mystified" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4a6301c48047$8c23db50$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> > I use a large amount of data in Autotext (normal.dot about
> > 1.5Mb)
> > It randomly dissappears when the desktop is shutdown and
> > restarted usually overnight.
> > Starts up with a new normal.dot and no Autotext. Current
> > version of Word is XP on Win2000 but it has happened on
> > Word7 on Win95 as well.
> > Any ideas - is there a limit to normal.dot? Should I set
> > up a special global template to hold Autotext?
> > Have online virii update on desktop.
>
>