Styles - sharing via Organizer

[John]

I have a problem that I just cannot figure out and hope that someone can tell
me what I am doing wrong.

I am using Word 2000 and creating styles with auto text entries/organization
process. I followed the excellent article by Diane Chapman on "Use Auto Text
to Create a Text Library."

I have created styles and then added auto text entries regarding each of
those styles that then should list via the Auto Text toolbar.

I have created a style then based other styles on that original style
modifying each new style as needed. Creating auto text entries related to
those styles.

The autotext entries and styles create and list as expected on the Auto Text
toolbar. I then want to share those items with others in my office. I used
the Organizer to transfer the created styles and auto text entries from my
document to my normal.dot template. Then transfered same from Normal.dot to
a template we keep on our server. Form that server template I use the
organizer to copy to each office computer those same styles and auto text
entries.

The problem is that all of the auto text items listed under the original
style I created transfer to the general template on our server and then to
other computers with no problem. But some, not all, of the listed auto text
items under the additional styles created do not transfer to the
template/other computers. They are in the Tools/Auto Correct/Autotext
listing, but do not show up under that style in the autotext toolbar (all
entries) button. The style shows up for some with one or two items listed
under it, for others the style does not show up.

Why are some auto text entries and not others showing up under the styles?
These entries change periodically and I thought this a good way to update
information easily and quickly on each office computer.

If I have not provided you specific info you need to help with my problem
just let me know what further you need.

Help!

Thank you,
AJ
John R.

 

[Terry Farrell]

Create the styles and save them all to a new template and call it something
like WGTemplate. Stick is on the server in a new Folder called WGStartup.
Now change everyone's Word Startup path to point to the new folder in the
server.

When the users startup, Word will load the template found in the startup
folder on the server and everything stored in that template (toolbars,
macros, templates, AutoText, etc.) will be available globally in Word and in
Outlook (if they are using Word as the email editor).