Autocorrect from Windows Office 2007

[Moishe Kimelman]

Hi.

Is there any way of transferring autocorrect entries from a PC running
Office 2007 to Word for Mac.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[John McGhie]

Oooohhh.... Ahhhh.... This could be exciting

Your AutoCorrects are in two places: your Normal.dotm template and your ACL
file. The ACL file handles only the unformatted entries: the rest are in
Normal template, along with various other things.

1) Open your Normal.dotm and SAVE it as Temp.dot. Make sure you change the
TYPE to "Word 97-2003 Template". Copy that to the Mac.

2) In Word 2004, close everything except the blank document (it's best to
quit and re-open) so we know we do not have any pending changes to the
Normal template.

3) Go to Format>Style and click the Organizer button.

4) Click the AutoText tab up the top. A two-pane window appears headed "To
Normal" and "From Normal".

5) Click the "Close File" button below the "From Normal" half. It will
immediately change to "Open File"

6) Use that button to open your Temp.dot template.

7) Select all of the entries in the From Temp.dot side and copy them to the
Normal.dot side. Quit Word, answering "Yes" if prompted to save anything.

That will take a lot of your entries across. I am afraid there is nothing
much you can do about your AutoCorrect List: the files for Word 2007 and
Word 2004 are in incompatible formats, and there's nothing that enables you
to edit them (other than manually going through and re-entering them, one by
one.

Sorry: Best I can do.

I will investigate whether anyone has developed a Macro that will enable you
to bring them across.

Cheers

Hi.

Is there any way of transferring autocorrect entries from a PC running
Office 2007 to Word for Mac.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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[John McGhie]

{Blush} I just remembered we do have an article on this. Dave Rado
re-wrote Microsoft's utility to do this

It's here: http://word.mvps.org/mac/backupprefs.html

(If you're using Safari, Keep refreshing until you see it...)

That macro should run unchanged in both Microsoft Word 2007 and Microsoft
Word 2004.

(No: it won;t run in 2008... )

Oooohhh.... Ahhhh.... This could be exciting

Your AutoCorrects are in two places: your Normal.dotm template and your ACL
file. The ACL file handles only the unformatted entries: the rest are in
Normal template, along with various other things.

1) Open your Normal.dotm and SAVE it as Temp.dot. Make sure you change the
TYPE to "Word 97-2003 Template". Copy that to the Mac.

2) In Word 2004, close everything except the blank document (it's best to
quit and re-open) so we know we do not have any pending changes to the
Normal template.

3) Go to Format>Style and click the Organizer button.

4) Click the AutoText tab up the top. A two-pane window appears headed "To
Normal" and "From Normal".

5) Click the "Close File" button below the "From Normal" half. It will
immediately change to "Open File"

6) Use that button to open your Temp.dot template.

7) Select all of the entries in the From Temp.dot side and copy them to the
Normal.dot side. Quit Word, answering "Yes" if prompted to save anything.

That will take a lot of your entries across. I am afraid there is nothing
much you can do about your AutoCorrect List: the files for Word 2007 and
Word 2004 are in incompatible formats, and there's nothing that enables you
to edit them (other than manually going through and re-entering them, one by
one.

Sorry: Best I can do.

I will investigate whether anyone has developed a Macro that will enable you
to bring them across.

Cheers

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John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory, Australia
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Hi John,

That page doesn't say anything about Win to Mac AutoCorrect.

There is this:
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/customization/ExportAutocorrect.htm

Which is Win to Win AutoCorrect. Will it work on a Mac?

Daiya

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Daiya:

Yes, I believe it it will. It's Word 97 VBA

The macro concerned simply creates a table document containing the
autocorrects.

Then you take the document to the other Word instance and run the macro
again. It pumps the content of the table into the AutoCorrect list.

Cheers

Hi John,

That page doesn't say anything about Win to Mac AutoCorrect.

There is this:
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/customization/ExportAutocorrect.htm

Which is Win to Win AutoCorrect. Will it work on a Mac?

Daiya

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Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory, Australia
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[Daiya Mitchell]

Thanks, John. But the AutoCorrect file does not have the same name on
the Mac as Windows.....

Oh! Nevermind! The macro doesn't work with the ACL file, it just
creates an AutoCorrect entry for each word in the list through Word?
Now I get it.

Very handy.

Moishe, can you confirm that this works fine? It's a common enough
question that it's good it we have a solution.

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Daiya:

Yeah. Half the autocorrects are in Normal, the other half are in the ACL.

The macro doesn't care where they are: it iterates the entire Collection in
Word and checks the "RichText" flag (formatted).

It then pumps them back in the same way, specifying the RichText flag if the
entry was formatted (which adds it to the Normal template) or not setting it
to steer the AutoText into the ACL.

That way, it never has to worry about what or where the user has used to
store the autotexts ‹ so long as Word can find them.

Cheers

Thanks, John. But the AutoCorrect file does not have the same name on
the Mac as Windows.....

Oh! Nevermind! The macro doesn't work with the ACL file, it just
creates an AutoCorrect entry for each word in the list through Word?
Now I get it.

Very handy.

Moishe, can you confirm that this works fine? It's a common enough
question that it's good it we have a solution.

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John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory, Australia
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]