Autocorrect Backup

[roger]

The Autocorrect Backup (W2000) only captures down to the letter 'c'. How do I
capture the rest.Tks

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Try the utility from
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/ExportAutocorrect.htm

 

[roger]

Tku Susan. It is tht utility which only captures part of the list.

 

[roger]

Susan. Mny tks. Disregard my earlier. I d/loaded the utility to W2003 and
cdnt enable the macro. Worked correctly on W2000. Apols for confusion.
Gratefully. Roger

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I'm sorry to hear that it doesn't work in the current version. Unfortunately
the developer who wrote the macro is no longer available, but perhaps
someone else can update it.

 

[roger]

Suzanne,
I now have my all 13k entries in W2000 Autocrrect successfully backedup and
transferred to W2003 as a Word.doc. Can I restore tht doc to Autocorrect
W2003? Tks fr yr hlp.
Roger

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I'd be afraid to tell you because I am really not familiar with how this
works, but the Backup and Restore macros provided should take care of this.

Suzanne,
I now have my all 13k entries in W2000 Autocrrect successfully backedup and
transferred to W2003 as a Word.doc. Can I restore tht doc to Autocorrect
W2003? Tks fr yr hlp.
Roger

 

[roger]

I d/loaded the marcro9.dot template to W2003 and hit the restore button for
the AC Bkup doc and when it finished, it briefly showed the last entries of
the 13k total entries and a window said the restoration was successful but
when I went to Tools, Autocorrect in Word, the W2000 entries were not there.
Sorry to take up yr time but any other pos suggestions where they might be
hidden bcse there is no doubt in my mind tht they were restored somewhere.
Mny tks.
Roger

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Have you searched the HD for .acl files? I'm really unfamiliar with the way
this macro works, so perhaps someone who has used it can be more helpful.

I d/loaded the marcro9.dot template to W2003 and hit the restore button for
the AC Bkup doc and when it finished, it briefly showed the last entries of
the 13k total entries and a window said the restoration was successful but
when I went to Tools, Autocorrect in Word, the W2000 entries were not there.
Sorry to take up yr time but any other pos suggestions where they might be
hidden bcse there is no doubt in my mind tht they were restored somewhere.
Mny tks.
Roger

 

[roger]

Will do. Mny tks fr yr time, Suzanne.
Roger

Have you searched the HD for .acl files? I'm really unfamiliar with the way
this macro works, so perhaps someone who has used it can be more helpful.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

I just tried the AutoCorrect.dot from the MVP site in Word 2003 on Windows
XP Pro and it worked fine for me. I got 37 pages of mostly default entries.
Ran it both to back up and then restored from a previous version.
--
Charles Kenyon

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See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Thanks for the confirmation, Charles.

 

[roger]

Eureka!! Just as I was about to hurl myself over a cliff, found the problem.
Everything was there as you noted, Charles but all my AC entries were hidden
bcse I forgot to change the English from US to Australian. There they all
were. Mny tks to you and Suzanne for your patience and assistance.
Roger

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, we've been hashing out this whole language dependence issue (wrt
AutoCorrect entries) recently in word.customization.menustoolbars, and it
turns out almost no one is as familiar with the ramifications of it as we
thought!

 

[roger]

Funny. Ive had this problem for years but never twigged to what it was. It
seemed as tho I had two versions of Word, with minds of their own. Each time
I opened one, it would not contain AC entries I knew shd be there. So I wd
reenter them all. All this time I was inadvertently opening Word in US and
Aussie English and each had their own AC file. Puzzle solved. Mny tks.
Roger

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Makes me more and more glad that I use only English (US)!