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moved from word 2000 to word 2010 and now auto text which was copied over works only occasionally and randomly ... i have done the word 2010 tutorial ... googled ad nauseum about it and i can not figure it out ... in word 2000 i added the auto text and when typing a document if i started typing the words of the auto text a greyish box showed up with the entire text, i hit enter and kept typing ... it is hit or miss whether the box will show up ... i have tried adding new auto text and that does not work at all ... what am i doing wrong ???
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YES! It was your idea in June 26, 2012, almost two years ago! And I think this was the answer. At least, it now works almost perfectly for me (I have been working all day with Autotext). I wish the user that posted the original question could read us now, and try this solution. I am almost sure it will work for him.
Hum.... maybe Dragon is also causing some problems; in fact, it's problematic with Trados, the other software I use for my work. But so far things are going well with Autotext (fingers crossed), so I won't touch anything else. Thanks for all your help!
Thanks. I had no idea who came up with the idea in the first place. This thread has grown far too long to keep track. :-)