Re: importing autocorrect / autotext entries

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You're probably right in your interpretation, in which case the macro would
have most likely looped through each of the table documents & added each
entry to the ACL. Based on that assumption it might not be a bad idea to
hold on to the original docs as a backup (that's a *lot* of stuff) but like
you say they don't factor in to the current situation.

In that case it's the Default ACL [(Language)] that needs to be salvaged. In
both versions they're in the Office folder, so if that hasn't been deleted I
don't see any reason why the swap won't work.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 6/10/08 2:27 PM, in article OH08deyyIHA.5620@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Daiya
Mitchell" <daiyaNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

No, we read the question the same way--I'm just saying forget about
these original files and using a macro to convert them. That work has
already been done to use them in Word 2004 (OP said). Instead of
*re*-converting the original files for Word 2008, move the already
converted files from Word 2004 into Word 2008.

This does presume that the Office 2004 preferences were backed up, but I
thought even if you Removed Office 2004, it didn't trash the preferences.

CyberTaz wrote:
Hopefully Daiya interpreted your message correctly, but I'm seeing it from a
different perspective...

As I'm reading it, these are not actually Word ACL files, but are some other
file type and are accessed via an independent macro rather than as a part of
Word's AutoCorrect feature. If that's the case, just moving them into the
Office folder along side the legitimate ACLs will not enable them to work as
though they were part of the family, nor will the macro work in Word 2008.

There's definitely no built-in feature of Word that provides for importing
the lists to the existing ACLs. What it would take to "convert" them I have
no idea - I'm not even sure there is any realistic way - ACLs aren't regular
text files or simple lists of words.

If you can supply complete details of what type of files these are, how they
were created, etc. someone may have some ideas. They'll most likely also
request a copy of the macro if there are any possibilities.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac



On 6/10/08 11:49 AM, in article
5b8b3ebf-a07d-4c5f-8b2e-8267b5c236df@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"salismil@xxxxxxxxx" <salismil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


hello,

i have two huge lists of autocorrect entries that are formatted as
tables, with the "abbreviation" in the first column and the expanded
text in the second column. the first list has about 7500 entries, the
second list 27000 entires, and each list is a separate word document.
in word 04 i was able to import both lists as autocorrect entries via
a macro...

anyone know of a similar way to do this in word 08, either through
autocorrect or autotext? or is there some easy applesript that someone
could whip up that would do the trick?

i could save each list as a plain text tab- or comma-delimited file,
if that makes things any easier...

thanks!




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