Re: stubbornly corrupted AutoText Entry

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From: Charles Kenyon (msnewsgroup_at_remove.no.spam.addbalance.com)
Date: 02/07/05 

Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:10:33 -0600

Try UNasloftus 

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"Larry" <larry328@att.net> wrote in message 
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> It doesn't have to be "United States."  If I delete that, and create
> another entry and if the new entry begins with the letter "T" or "U,"
> then the new entry has the junk text appear in the prompt.  But only one
> entry at a time has the junk text.
>
> I have a feeling this was created by the Spike command, that when the
> Spike was created, which is an autotext entry called Spike, some of the
> text of it "leaked" into some area of the template where AutoText
> entries are stored.
>
> I created a junk entry, "Unxiloftus," and it had the junk text in the
> prompt, but then I recreated "United States," thinking it would be ok,
> but instead the junk text was transferred to the United States entry
> while "Unxiloftus" no longer had the junk text.  Weird.
>
>
>
>
> Larry wrote:
>> I thought I had this problem solved but it's returned.
>>
>> I have an AutoText entry, United States.  When I start to type it, I
>> get an AutoText prompt that says "Libertarianism's absoUnitedStates"
>> But then, when I enter the entry, the words "United States" are
>> inserted correctly into the document.  So the junk text only appears
>> in the prompt.
>>
>> I've deleted and recreated the entry several times, but the junk text
>> keeps returning.  I've even used Organizer to delete that entry from
>> the current Normal, and copy in an other versin of that entry from a
>> Normal backup in which that entry is not corrupted.  But as soon as
>> the new entry is created in Normal, it has that same junk text in the
>> prompt!
>>
>> So is the only way to fix it to create a new Normal, based on a
>> backup?
>
>

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