How do I restore my Autotext?

[Michelle F.]

My company updates our normal.dot every few months because we have an
additional toolbar with our firm's documents. Everytime it gets updated, all
employees who have autotexts, styles, etc. gets deleted. Is there a macro or
a way that I can regenerate these autotexts, styles, etc. so they can be
applied to the new normal.dot?

Thank you.

 

[Jonathan West]

My company updates our normal.dot every few months because we have an
additional toolbar with our firm's documents.

Tell them they shouldn't do that.

Everytime it gets updated, all
employees who have autotexts, styles, etc. gets deleted.

Tell them that is *why* they shouldn't do that!

Is there a macro or
a way that I can regenerate these autotexts, styles, etc. so they can be
applied to the new normal.dot?

Tell them to put their toolbars in an add-in. This article will show them
how.

Distributing macros to other users
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/DistributeMacros.htm


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[Jay Freedman]

Go to my page at http://jay-freedman.info and download the
AutoTextDumper and AutoTextLoader templates. Use the first one to back
up your AutoText entries into a regular document, and then use the
second one to put them back into the new normal.dot after each update.

By the way, you might want to mail a copy of
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/DistributeMacros.htm to your
company's IT manager. Gently suggest <g> that there's a better way
than what they're doing.

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[Charles Kenyon]

First, your company should not be doing this! The company could use a
separate global to do what it wants. However, you can make your own separate
global(s) and use them to keep your settings when the bullies overwrite your
normal.dot.

See http://addbalance.com/word/movetotemplate.htm for step-by-step
instructions on moving / sharing / copying / backing-up customizations
including AutoText, AutoCorrect, keyboard assignments, toolbars, macros,
etc.
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