AutoCorrect in Office 2007

[Misha]

I have three computers – 2 desktops and a laptop, running Office 2007
Professional. The built-in Auto correct entries appear in Desktop 1, but not
on Desktop 2 and the laptop. All I get on the latter is a list of the symbols
in Word. For instance, on Desktop 1 ‘teh’ will change to ‘the’, but not so on
the other two because the built-in list of words is absent. How can I get
these to appear?
Custom additions are OK.
Thank you.

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?TWlzaGE=?=,

I have three computers – 2 desktops and a laptop, running Office 2007
Professional. The built-in Auto correct entries appear in Desktop 1, but not
on Desktop 2 and the laptop. All I get on the latter is a list of the symbols
in Word. For instance, on Desktop 1 ‘teh’ will change to ‘the’, but not so on
the other two because the built-in list of words is absent. How can I get
these to appear?
Custom additions are OK.

How about in Excel or Powerpoint, are the entries missing there, as well?

AutoCorrect is stored in *.acl files. It sounds like it wasn't installed, or has gone
missing.

How about repairing the installation of Office 2007 on those machines?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Misha]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?TWlzaGE=?=,

How about in Excel or Powerpoint, are the entries missing there, as well?

AutoCorrect is stored in *.acl files. It sounds like it wasn't installed, or has gone
missing.

How about repairing the installation of Office 2007 on those machines?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)


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I tried the repair to no avail. The entries appear in PowerPoint but not Excel, and in Access the option is greyed out on ALL three computers.

Is there a way of copying the .acl files from one computer to the others.
Where are they installed? I did a search for*.acl on the computer that has
the entries, but came up with a blank.
Thanks

 

[Jay Freedman]

Is there a way of copying the .acl files from one computer to the others.
Where are they installed? I did a search for*.acl on the computer that has
the entries, but came up with a blank.
Thanks

Your search didn't find them because they're in a hidden folder, and by default
the search doesn't include hidden folders. You should be able to see them by
entering this in the address bar of the file manager:
%appdata%\Microsoft\Office

An alternative is to export the entries from one computer and import them on the
others, using the add-in that you can download from
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/ExportAutocorrect.htm.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Your search didn't find them because they're in a hidden folder, and by default
the search doesn't include hidden folders. You should be able to see them by
entering this in the address bar of the file manager:
%appdata%\Microsoft\Office

An alternative is to export the entries from one computer and import them on the
others, using the add-in that you can download from
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/ExportAutocorrect.htm.

Oops, I wasn't thinking about this being for Word 2007. The equivalent add-in
for that version is at http://jay-freedman.info (AutoCorrect2007.zip).

 

[Misha]

Thank you so much. That worked a treat.

Is there any reason for the problem to occur? I know of at least tow of my
clients with laptops who have the same thing.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Is there any reason for the problem to occur?

Not that I know of. The default AutoCorrect lists aren't among the choices that
you can include or exclude in the Office installer, so I assume they're part of
the core installation.

The installer should create files named MSO.ACL in various numbered folders
under the Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12 folder -- the numbers are
language IDs -- and those should be copied to the %appdata%\Microsoft\Office
folder when you run the Office programs. (I'm not sure whether that happens on
first use or when you make the first nondefault plain-text entry.)

If the MSO.ACL files don't appear in the Office12 folders, try repairing the
installation as Cindy suggested.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Deb RW]

I'm having a similar problem, Jay. Re-installed Office 2007 on a new laptop,
and all the additional Auto Corrects I added on the old machine are missing.
I see the *.acl files on the new laptop - they're distributed among about 15
locations. They exist on my old hard drive in about the same number of
locations.

I tried using the Add-In macro you posted for Office 2007, but my system
wouldn't read the macro, even when I lowered my security to accept all macros.

If I can just copy the files containing .acl files from my old to my new
hard drive ... where, specifically, should I place them?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Jay Freedman]

Each file from the old computer should be copied to the corresponding
folder on the new computer.

There should be two sets of files.

- The installation files are all named "MSO.ACL", and they're stored
in numbered folders under C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12
-- the numbers are language identifiers, such as 1033 for English
(US). How many of them you have depends on what base language of
Office you installed and whether you added more languages to it. Since
this set of files never changes, there's no need to copy them to the
new computer.

- The "working set" of files to which you can add entries have the
numbers embedded in the file name, such as "MSO1033.ACL". Those are
stored in your profile.

If the old computer is using Windows XP or earlier, and the new one is
using Vista or Windows 7, that complicates things a bit because the
location of the profile changed. The XP location of the ACL files is

C:\Documents and Settings\<your name>\Application
Data\Microsoft\Office

The corresponding location for Vista and Windows 7 is

C:\Users\<your name>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Office