auto text, why won't it work or only works sporadically ...

I know this is an old thread, but couldn't find an easy way to ask a new question, and wanted a response to this issue specifically.  I have read all the responses, and believe there is an issue here that is otherwise difficult to recreate and trouble shoot.  I am curious if it has anything to do with using a pre-existing template/table/text box.

I have recently been upgraded from Word 2003 to 2010, and to Windows 7.

Much of the work I do involves entering information on a document created by a macro built in Word 2003.  It has a some common elements for each form, and a handful of text boxes to input specific information.

On the first page, auto text will reliably generate the tool tip, allowing me to hit enter and move on.

On the second page, the tool tip is not created, but F3 works for auto texts I created or transferred from Word 2003.

However F3 does not work on things like "mond" changing to Monday.  On the first page I can type "mond", a tool tip appears, I hit enter, it changes to "Monday", I hit space, a tool tip appears, I hit enter, and it populates "September 23, 2013"

The tool tip does not appear on the second page, and F3 does not work.

Likewise, sept turns into September in the same fashion if I am not typing the day of the week first, and a space after September generates a tool tip for today's date; works on the first page, not the second page...

Does this have anything to do with the table/text box creation?  Have others noticed this issue in blank documents, or only in templates or documents with tables?

We had some forms in which the text box did not automatically check spelling.  This is not the case here.  Typing monday on the second page automatically corrects to Monday, and Munday is spelled wrong...

Hopefully this is helpful enough information to identify the intermittence issues

The mond to Monday and sept to September are not AutoText but something else. I would suggest posting a new topic on this. It is an issue of tooltips and options, I believe.

It's AutoComplete suggestions for dates, and you can't customize them (as far as I know).

It's AutoComplete suggestions for dates, and you can't customize them (as far as I know).

Thanks for the clarification. I knew it wasn't something set in AutoText or AutoCorrect. I use datefields in all my templates so never use the AutoComplete for dates except to undo them.

Thanks for the clarification. I knew it wasn't something set in AutoText or AutoCorrect.

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All of the (recent) changes are certainly confusing... Remember that AutoComplete exists only for dates in Word 2007. <sigh>