Insert Auto Text Menu

[Bill Nash]

I am using word 2003 with all service packs applied. When
opening the headers and footers view to apply page
numbering the toolbar reflects a "greyed out" "Insert
Auto Text" button. This would appear to be caused by the
fact that the menu items e.g. "Page X of Y" are not
present?
Please can anyone help?
Thanks in advance.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This *could* be caused by having the header/footer in a style other than
Header, Footer, or Normal, but that's not likely. More likely is that you've
managed to overwrite Normal.dot, thereby deleting the built-in AutoText
entries. To ascertain whether or not this is the problem, close the
header/footer pane and go to Insert | AutoText | AutoText and see whether
the entries are listed (or you can look at Insert | AutoText | Header and
Footer to see whether you get a menu). If they're not, then they are no
longer in Normal.dot, and you will probably need to generate a new
Normal.dot to retrieve them. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/BlankDocNotBlank.htm

 

[Charles Kenyon]

My guess is that for some reason your header or footer is not in the header
or footer style.

 

[Bill Nash]

Hi Suzanne,
Many Thanks for the help. I read the article you refer to
and this is indeed my problem.
As to how it happened - I attempted to modify the
Normal.dot template and as I received a meassage advising
that I could not not save a document with the same name
as a document that is already open I saved it under a
different name and then renamed the original Normal as
Mormalbak amd the newly saved file as Normal. The problem
is that in the process I lost the menu as per my original
question.
My problem now is - How do I modify and save Normal
correctly?
Thanks for the help
Bill

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Start by renaming Normal.dot and letting Word create a new one. You can then
use the Organizer (Tools | Templates and Add-ins) to retrieve macros, custom
styles, AutoText, etc.) from your old Normal.dot. Keep in mind that "Only
God can make a tree," and only Word can create a Normal.dot. Don't ever try
to create one yourself.