Re: AutoCorrect: all replaced with (

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Thank you for your answer; however, that apparently was not the problem.
Any other suggestions? Thanks for any help you can give me--I've lost a ton
of "stuff".
--
Mary


"Stefan Blom" wrote:

One possibility is that your granddaughter inadvertently changed the
language applied to text. Look at the status bar; if the language is
incorrect, changing it back should restore the AutoCorrect entries too.
(For more on language formatting, see
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm.)

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Mary" wrote in message
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Unfortunately my "question" button does not open for dialog. This
information is very good, but my problem is similar but somewhat
different--

My granddaughter "played" on my keyboard when I was out of the room.
Now
ALL the autocorrects that I have put into my Office 2000 Word have
disappeared! Is there any way that I can retrieve them or are they
lost
forever?
--
Mary


"Jen" wrote:

I almost never go into thye AutoCorrect dialog box (certainly
haven't
recently), but I do use some of the defaults there - such as
replacing "-->"
with an arrow.

A week or two ago, the AutoCorrect stopped working - everything that
used to
AutoCorrect now gets changed to an open parenthesis. So, if I
type --> it
becomes (. It's been bugging me, but not a huge deal...so I finally
went in
today and took a look, and lo and behold, all the AutoCorrect
defaults are
set to the parenthesis.

Anyone have any idea how I might have done this, seeing as how I
haven't
opened this dialog box in ages? And, is there a way to restore the
defaults?
I can't see any possibility to change them, so it looks like my only
option
is to delete each one then manually re-add it (and since many of
them convert
to symbols, this would be a huge pain). Is there an easier way?

(I'll also mention, although I guess it's probably unrelated, that
I've been
having this problem with other Word features - things just seem to
turn off
and I can't get them back. I've used Word for years and have never
had this
problem on another computer. I work on a laptop, with Office XP, but
I don't
type on my laptop - I have a keyboard plugged in instead - so it's
not a
matter of hitting the track pad. It's really driving me crazy. The
other
feature I've lost, that I can think of off the top of my head, is
one I've
posted about before with no resolution - I used to be able to
double-click on
the table selector at the top left corner of a table to select the
entire
table. Now, double-clicking on the table selector actually selects
the
previous paragraph - argh! In whose world would THAT be a useful
feature?)

TIA for any advice you can provide (and thanks for allowing me a
mini-rant)...
Jen








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