Re: Migrating custom dictionary and auto correct entries from PC to Mac

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little_creature wrote:
To maintain your setting from Normal.doc you can just copy this file form PC
from PC: Documents and settings>Application Data>Microsoft>Templates
To Mac: ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Normal

Little_Creature, have you tried this? I'm superstitious about trying to force a Normal created by WinWord into MacWord. There are minor differences, for instance, WinWord uses Normal.dot and MacWord refuses to use the extension for Normal. What about putting it into Word's startup folder to be a global template?

Partha--Normal.dot holds the default settings for new documents, which are easy enough to reset. It also holds macros and keyboard shortcuts you may have created. If some of the AutoCorrects you created were *formatted*, then those are stored in Normal.dot. Otherwise, the AutoCorrects are in a separate file altogether and hopefully John McGhie will come along and tell you if you can do anything to migrate them. And welcome to the Mac!

Daiya

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