AutoCorrections missing!

[Veta]

On Wednesday morning, I discovered that all the shortcuts and corrections I'd
input to AutoCorrect over the last year were missing. They'd all been there
on Tuesday, and I didn't make any changes to the computer Tuesday night. I
haven't noticed any other problems.

Luckily, I keep a running list of my shortcuts, so I simply input them
again, but it will take awhile to build up the corrections, and anyway I
don't want this to happen again -- it was really terrible timing -- so I hope
someone can tell me what happened!

From reading other posts I gather this might have something to do with
Normal.dot. Where can I find Normal.dot and how do I find out if I
accidentally saved a file as Normal.dot?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Unless they are formatted, AutoCorrect entries are not stored in Normal.dot
but rather in .acl files.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Veta]

Okay thanks, but do you know why my autocorrect entries were deleted, and how
I can prevent it from happening again?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

One explanation might be that the language of your documents has changed,
since AutoCorrect entries are language-specific. Or it could be that you're
actually referring to AutoText entries, which *are* saved in Normal.dot.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org