AutoCorrect Selections Do Not Hold

[K]

Any more ideas? I've done "Using the /a switch" and "Deleting and recreating
the corrupt registry values" from "My menus and toolbars are missing and
won't come back" http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm,
and my AutoCorrect selections still do not hold. Yesterday I began a new
docu. After an ordinal changed as I typed, I went to AutoCorrect options and
made the usual selcetions. When I clicked OK, a line in my docu chaned size
and went bold. When I did "Show/Hide" it showed a black dot in the left hand
margin next to the line that changed. With Backspace and Delete I was able to
get rid of the black dot. This morning when I opened the docu, the
AutoCorrections that were active when I saved the docu last night had
returned to default settings and the line that kept changing was the right
size and font but the hard return before the line and the hard return after
the line was gone. I added the hard returns, saved the docu, closed the docu,
then reopened the docu. Everything was as it should be except the hard
returns were gone again. No matter how many times I tried adding the returns,
saving, then closing and reopening the docu, the added hard returns were
always gone - but the AutoCorrect selections are holding. Oh, and I almost
forgot. Opening and closing the docu sometimes causes the line spacing to
change. Sometimes it changes at a return instead of waiting for a closing.
Any ideas of what is going on will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, K.

 

[Stefan Blom]

It certainly seems as if the document is damaged. Before trying the fixes at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm, you may want to locate
and rename your normal.dot template (normal.dotm if you are using Word 2007).
Be sure to close Word before accessing the template.

If the above doesn't work, post back, describing carefully what goes wrong
and what you have tried so far.