Re: Autotext crashes Word

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From: Graham Mayor (gmayor_at_DELETECAPSmvps.org)
Date: 07/11/04

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    Checkout the second link I posted ie
    http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm.
    Do you have any add-ins that may require updating for the new version?
    You will also need to clear up the mess the crashes have left behind -
    http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm 

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Lin wrote:
> I've just followed your instructions re normal.dot and I'm afraid it
> was unsuccessful.  After the new normal.dot was in place the problem
> remained. Any more ideas gratefully received.
>
> "Graham Mayor" wrote:
>
>> You can have autotexts with 1, 2, or 3 letters, but you don't get a
>> prompt
>> until there are more than 4. This is not your problem.
>> My guess is that normal.dot is corrupt. Rename it to oldnormal.dot
>> (it's a
>> hidden file in Word 2003) and allow Word to build a new one. If that
>> works,
>> use the organizer to copy your autotexts from old to new.
>>
>> You'll need to clean up the mess the crashes have left behind -
>> http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm and if the
>> normal.dot
>> change doesn't fix it, have a look at
>> http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm
>>
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>> Lin wrote:
>>> Have just upgraded to 2003 from 2000.  All my previous autotexts are
>>> 1,2,or 3 letters.  When I try to use them it crashes the programme.
>>> The Help tells me that only entries of 5 letters work in this
>>> version
>>> but when I tried making some of these the same thing happened.  I
>>> ran
>>> Detect and Repair to no avail.  Is there a fault in my software or
>>> am
>>> I missing a trick?
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