autocorrect recovery

[Lin]

I am using Word 2002.

I had to wipe out and reinstall everything on my hard drive because of a
worm. I've restored Word but have not been able to recover my autocorrect
entries. I have backups (on an external drive) of my old documents and
program files. I tried copying over my old Normal.dot file to my C drive but
that didn't work. How can I recover my autocorrect entries from my backup?
I would even settle for being able to print them out. Please help! Thanks

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Toward the end, this article will tell you what file you need:

To save and exchange AutoCorrect across computers or re-installations:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/ExportAutocorrect.htm

 

[Lin]

Thanks for your reply.

I actually already tried this and it worked great. Unfortunately, it just
exported the default entries from the new setup of Word. What I need to do
is to, in some way, load up the entries from my backups and export them.

 

[Lin]

Daiya,

I went back and tried method number 2 -- it worked great, almost. Lost my
formatting but got back my entries. Thanks again for your help.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

In this case just copying the appropriate .acl file in place of the new one
would probably do the trick, assuming that the folder structure has not
changed.

 

[dagdabrona]

Well,

If you wish to restore lost data, recovery tools can help you. Among
them active@undelete posses imho the best recover algorithm. Give it a
try, really great soft.
http://www.active-undelete.com/

 

[chad]

Lin, did your backup include the.acl files?

-Chad
http://free-backup.info