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MS Office Forum / Word / Programming / August 2006How do I restore my Autotext?
My company updates our normal.dot every few months because we have an additional toolbar with our firm's documents. Everytime it gets updated, all employees who have autotexts, styles, etc. gets deleted. Is there a macro or a way that I can regenerate these autotexts, styles, etc. so they can be applied to the new normal.dot? Thank you. > My company updates our normal.dot every few months because we have an > additional toolbar with our firm's documents. Tell them they shouldn't do that. > Everytime it gets updated, all > employees who have autotexts, styles, etc. gets deleted. Tell them that is *why* they shouldn't do that! > Is there a macro or > a way that I can regenerate these autotexts, styles, etc. so they can be > applied to the new normal.dot? Tell them to put their toolbars in an add-in. This article will show them how. Distributing macros to other users http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/DistributeMacros.htm  SignatureRegards Jonathan West - Word MVP www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk Please reply to the newsgroup Keep your VBA code safe, sign the ClassicVB petition www.classicvb.org Go to my page at http://jay-freedman.info and download the AutoTextDumper and AutoTextLoader templates. Use the first one to back up your AutoText entries into a regular document, and then use the second one to put them back into the new normal.dot after each update. By the way, you might want to mail a copy of http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/DistributeMacros.htm to your company's IT manager. Gently suggest <g> that there's a better way than what they're doing. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. >My company updates our normal.dot every few months because we have an >additional toolbar with our firm's documents. Everytime it gets updated, all [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >Thank you. First, your company should not be doing this! The company could use a separate global to do what it wants. However, you can make your own separate global(s) and use them to keep your settings when the bullies overwrite your normal.dot. See http://addbalance.com/word/movetotemplate.htm for step-by-step instructions on moving / sharing / copying / backing-up customizations including AutoText, AutoCorrect, keyboard assignments, toolbars, macros, etc. SignatureCharles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. > My company updates our normal.dot every few months because we have an > additional toolbar with our firm's documents. Everytime it gets updated, [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Thank you. |
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