Moving AutoCorrect Entries to New Computer

  • Thread starter Richard O. Neville
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Richard O. Neville

At last, with the help of http://www.mvps.org/word/index.html, the MVP web
site, I have succeeded in moving my entries to a new computer. The macro
enables the user to make a backup copy of the entries as a Word document. It
also allows the user to "restore" the entries.

My problem was moving the entries physically from old to new computer. I
copied them onto a diskette, but when I tried to "restore" the document was
not there. Tried this a second time with a different diskette and failed. So
I e-mailed the backup document from the old to the new computer and copied
it onto the desktop. I then ran the macro, located the backup on the
desktop, and successfully overrode the few existing entries with all the old
ones.

Why can't Microsoft make this easier? Anyone who uses Office and gets a new
computer would want to be able to use these entries. I had the same trouble
with my Word and Excel macros and had to re-record all of them.
 
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Beth Melton

Hi Richard,

Microsoft originally created the AutoCorrect utility you downloaded
from the MVP site in their Macros.dot add-in.

However it did not accommodate AutoCorrect entries containing tables
or paragraph marks so with Microsoft's permission it the code was
modified to correct the errors.

So, yes MS does provide this capability. :)

But a better answer to your question would be they also created the
"Save My Settings Wizard" which will help preserve all of your custom
settings. You did not indicate which version of Office you are using
but here is some additional info

Office XP (contains a link to Office 2000 article)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;298059

Office 2003:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;826809

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