Removing Autotext entry in View Menu

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brendarose - 27 Sep 2004 11:35 GMT

I have managed to put some AutoText entries into the View Menu, but I can't
find a way of deleting them. I'm using Word 2000. Does anyone have any
ideas? Thanks, Brenda

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Graham Mayor - 27 Sep 2004 12:07 GMT

Tools > customize and drag them off.
Or
Use the destructive cursor CTRL+ALT+hyphen (Esc cancels it) and apply to the
entry you wish to remove. Treat this with caution as it will remove any menu
item!

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> I have managed to put some AutoText entries into the View Menu, but I
> can't find a way of deleting them. I'm using Word 2000. Does anyone
> have any ideas? Thanks, Brenda

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brendarose - 27 Sep 2004 13:35 GMT

Thanks - I had already tried Tools, Customise and dragging them off and they
did go from that screen, but were still in the View menu. I tried
CTRL+ALT+hyphen but it comes up with the message "Word cannot find the
designated menu item". Any other ideas?

> Tools > customize and drag them off.
> Or
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> > can't find a way of deleting them. I'm using Word 2000. Does anyone
> > have any ideas? Thanks, Brenda

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Graham Mayor - 27 Sep 2004 14:04 GMT

In that case it seems you may have a corrupt normal.dot - rename normal.dot
to oldnormal.dot and restart Word and if necessary reset the registry - see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm

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> Thanks - I had already tried Tools, Customise and dragging them off
> and they did go from that screen, but were still in the View menu. I
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>>> I can't find a way of deleting them. I'm using Word 2000. Does
>>> anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Brenda

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brendarose - 27 Sep 2004 15:15 GMT

I'll try that but where do I find the normal.dot file to rename it?

> In that case it seems you may have a corrupt normal.dot - rename normal.dot
> to oldnormal.dot and restart Word and if necessary reset the registry - see
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> >>> I can't find a way of deleting them. I'm using Word 2000. Does
> >>> anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Brenda

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 27 Sep 2004 15:32 GMT

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/BlankDocNotBlank.htm for
instructions on finding Normal.dot.

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> I'll try that but where do I find the normal.dot file to rename it?
>
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> > >>> I can't find a way of deleting them. I'm using Word 2000. Does
> > >>> anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Brenda

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 27 Sep 2004 15:32 GMT

Could it be that they are saved in another template (an add-in, for
example)?

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> Thanks - I had already tried Tools, Customise and dragging them off and they
> did go from that screen, but were still in the View menu. I tried
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> > > can't find a way of deleting them. I'm using Word 2000. Does anyone
> > > have any ideas? Thanks, Brenda

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