restore autotext?

[Kris - Idaho]

I just located my 'missing' Normal.dot in user\application
data\Microsoft\templates, after cleaning up Word 2002. I can see it 2,929 KB
as a Word Backup Document but I don't know how to restore it as my normal.doc
Autotext.

Anyone out there who can help? I will be eternally grateful. . .

 

[Jay Freedman]

I just located my 'missing' Normal.dot in user\application
data\Microsoft\templates, after cleaning up Word 2002. I can see it
2,929 KB as a Word Backup Document but I don't know how to restore it
as my normal.doc Autotext.

Anyone out there who can help? I will be eternally grateful. . .

Download the AutotextDumper and AutotextLoader templates from
http://jay-freedman.info. Unzip both of them into your Templates folder.

Rename the Normal.dot backup file to something like OldNormal.dot (the first
part can be anything that isn't already in use, but the extension must be
..dot).

In Word, go to File > New and base a new document on AutotextDumper.dot.
Click the button on the floating toolbar to start the dumper macro.

Select the OldNormal.dot from the list and click OK. The macro will create
another document containing a table of the AutoText entries it found in the
old template, and it will open the Save As dialog. Save the document
somewhere that you can find it. You can close both documents now.

Go to File > New and base a new document on AutotextLoader.dot. Click the
button on the floating toolbar to start the loader macro.

Browse to the document you saved before. Select the Normal.dot template to
receive the entries (it's the default). Click OK.

You should now have all the old AutoText entries in the new Normal.dot
template.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Kris - Idaho]

Thanks for the great intervention templates. Everything transferred now,
except that in my replaced normal.dot several of the entries have HUGE blocks
(that look like they might be alphabet letters) preceeding the autotext
insert. Some of these blocks, in from of the text, are 200+ pages. Is there
a way to format the entries from one of the steps, that I might have
overlooked?

 

[Jay Freedman]

Considering that you had some kind of problem that caused you to "clean up"
Word 2002 (whatever that means), I suspect your old Normal.dot template
contained some corruption
(http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm). That may now be
showing up in the AutoText entries being transferred to the new template.

Look at those entries in the document that was created by AutoTextDumper. If
there's anything present that doesn't belong there, delete it. Note that
this is just an ordinary document -- even though the text in it came from
AutoText and will later be put into AutoText, at this point it's just text
and you can do anything to it that you need to.

Then with Word closed, delete the current copy of Normal.dot and restart
Word to build a new one. Now rerun the AutoTextLoader macro and see whether
the blocks are gone from the AutoText entries.

 

[Kris - Idaho]

Yes, you truly are the "Most Valuable Professional". By returning to the
AutoTextDumper I was able to reformat the typeface. It was being converted
from 12 pt to 1638 pt size - - i.e. the large blocks in front of the actual
insert.
I really appreciate your help - thanks, kris : )

 

[Jay Freedman]

Glad it worked for you!

Yes, you truly are the "Most Valuable Professional". By returning to
the AutoTextDumper I was able to reformat the typeface. It was being
converted from 12 pt to 1638 pt size - - i.e. the large blocks in
front of the actual insert.
I really appreciate your help - thanks, kris : )