Auto Text

[MedTrans]

I am unable to get auto-text to work properly. I highlight the paragraph,
click on TOOLS, auto-text, fill in an abbreviation and SAVE. I go out, come
back into another WORD DOCUMENT, shortcut does not exist. Suggestions?

ALSO, WINWORD.EXE continuously takes over, locking down everything on my
computer; my request for TaskMgr can take up to 2 minutes to finally open,
it shows this at 99%, sometimes I have to END TASK and lose my work, just to
regain control of my laptop. Suggestions?

 

[Terry Farrell]

Two possibilities here. Firstly, by default, unless you specify otherwise,
AutoText is saved in normal.dot. If you are using a document based on a
different template, that Autotext will be saved in a different template and
thus only available to documents attached to that template.

Secondly, it may be that you have installed one of the nasty add-ins that
stops normal.dot from being saved when you exit Word.