Where did my emoticons go?

[Tom-LE]

I can no longer use to create a smiley face. The characters have
disappeared from my AutoCorrect list.
I tried to paste the character into the "With" dialogue box, but only get a
"J" character.
I tried to insert the character into the "With" dialogue box by using [ALT]
074, and still only get a "J" character.
I tried the [ALT] 074 in the document itself and still only got the "J"
character; I suspect this is not a Word problem.
I just tried the [ALT] 074 in Notepad and got a "J" character, as well.
So it's not Word, but maybe someone can still help me.

 

[BobR]

The character for the smiley face resides in the Wingdings font family.
After you type [Alt] 074, have you then selected the 'J' and changed the
font to 'Wingdings'?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Formatted AutoCorrect entries (which is what this is) are saved in
Normal.dot. My guess would be that you saved a document or another template
as Normal.dot, which wiped out all your AutoText and formatted AutoCorrect
entries. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/BlankDocNotBlank.htm for
instructions on renaming Normal.dot.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Formatted autocorrects are stored in normal.dot so missing entries is an
indication that you have tried to save a document as normal.dot. Only Word
can create normal.dot. Rename yours to oldnormal.dot and use the organizer
to copy your personalisations to the new one Word will create.

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[Tom-LE]

Thanks!
I did not do that.
I know have all three of them back in my normal.dot

The character for the smiley face resides in the Wingdings font family.
After you type [Alt] 074, have you then selected the 'J' and changed the
font to 'Wingdings'?

I can no longer use to create a smiley face. The characters have
disappeared from my AutoCorrect list.
I tried to paste the character into the "With" dialogue box, but only get
a
"J" character.
I tried to insert the character into the "With" dialogue box by using
[ALT]
074, and still only get a "J" character.
I tried the [ALT] 074 in the document itself and still only got the "J"
character; I suspect this is not a Word problem.
I just tried the [ALT] 074 in Notepad and got a "J" character, as well.
So it's not Word, but maybe someone can still help me.

 

[Tom-LE]

Thank you. You are absolutely right - I did replace my normal.dot file. My
customized toolbars disappeared a month ago and I tried to find an old
normal.dot (they seem to disappear on me about every 2-6 months).

The first responder's reply helped me to get the characters back in my
AutoCorrect table and normal.dot. Thank you for the article on working with
Normal.dot; I have printed it off and will be a better user for it.

Tom

Formatted AutoCorrect entries (which is what this is) are saved in
Normal.dot. My guess would be that you saved a document or another template
as Normal.dot, which wiped out all your AutoText and formatted AutoCorrect
entries. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/BlankDocNotBlank.htm for
instructions on renaming Normal.dot.

I can no longer use to create a smiley face. The characters have
disappeared from my AutoCorrect list.
I tried to paste the character into the "With" dialogue box, but only get a
"J" character.
I tried to insert the character into the "With" dialogue box by using [ALT]
074, and still only get a "J" character.
I tried the [ALT] 074 in the document itself and still only got the "J"
character; I suspect this is not a Word problem.
I just tried the [ALT] 074 in Notepad and got a "J" character, as well.
So it's not Word, but maybe someone can still help me.