auto complete suggestion

[annie]

Word 2002. If I type the start of an auto text entry, the auto complete
suggestion is not appearing as it used to, so that all I need to do is hit
the enter key. I am able to manually insert an auto text.
For some reason this function is not working anymore.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Greg Maxey]

Annie,

Tools>AutoCorrect Options>AutoText>Show Autocomplete Suggestions must be
checked.

Your AutoText entry must have four or more unique characters to distinquish
it from other entries.

 

[annie]

Thanks for your response Greg but ...
Show Autocomplete Suggestions is checked and all entries have 4 or more
unique characters.
NO auto text entries work.

 

[Greg Maxey]

Annie,

Well that is the common problems. A few other fringe possibiliteis would be
to try showing and then hiding the Document map. That seems to correct some
screen tip displays.

Jay Freedman posted the following as a response to a similiar question a
while back:

On the chance that the check box in the dialog doesn't correspond to
the setting stored in the registry, try this: open the VBA editor
(Alt+F8), display the Immediate window (Ctrl+G), paste this line into
it and press Enter:


Application.DisplayAutoCompleteTips = True


One more thing you can try is deleting the Data key in the registry.
See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/DataKeySettings.htm
and http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissngMenusEtc.htm for
information and procedures.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This might also depend on having ScreenTips displayed (Tools | Options |
View).