Autotext causes tracked change

[John Gregory]

I have a document made from an existing template (.dot), and when I use auto
text, the text is inserted as a tracked change. I then have to accept the
change to get it to work.

I can re-created the auto text entry and it works, but this is inconvenient
since I have many, and I do not want to spend all day re-creating them.

Some details:

All of the documents and templates are relatively old, nothing has been
changed in quite a while,

I have used the template and auto text regularly with no problems, except
that today they don't work,

Track changes is being used at all, I have confirmed it is off,

The auto text entry is in my normal template an works well in a normal blank
document,

The current document template (the problem document) was created based upon
the same normal template I currently have,

I am using Word 2003, Win XP

How do I correct this problem?

 

[Stefan Blom]

If the AutoText entry is stored in normal.dot and works fine with other
documents, the issue must be with the particular document that you are
editing. If the instructions at
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/trackchanges/HowTrackChangesWorks.html#AcceptReject
does not work, try copying the document contents minus the final paragraph
mark (¶), into a new, blank document.

Note that in order to show/hide paragraph marks (as well as other
nonprinting marks), you can use Ctrl+Shift+8.