Autocorrect Problems

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Experts,

I have many autocorrect entries to speed up my work.
simple stuff like capitalizing acronyms and replacing -- with n-dash, etc.

I've been getting very strange behavior since upgrading
to Powerpoint 2002 (10.4205.4219) SP2
on my Win2K Pro 5.00.2195 SP4 IBM Thinkpad

It works sometimes and sometimes not. In the text boxes where it doesn't
work I look at the autocorrect entries and mine aren't there. But I can
move to a different location in the same file--sometimes just to a
different text box on the same page and it works.
At first I thought it was only working on the text boxes defined on the
master pages but I see now that it is unrelated to that.

This is very bizarre and I am totally baffled. At this point it looks
like a bug but I thought I'd ask here before trying to wade thru the MS
web site.

Anybody have any clues or ideas?

TIA
Pete
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BTW--thanks for the post helping with the pasting text. If I had ever
tried that knob it slipped my mind. I sure wish I could set the default
to paste exactly what I cut--when moving text within the file it sure is
irritating to have to click the little box telling it what I want to do
everytime. On the rare occasions I want something different I never had
a problem using paste special (alt e s and whatever).
IMHO I don't think this is progress.
 
IBPete said:
Experts,

I have many autocorrect entries to speed up my work.
simple stuff like capitalizing acronyms and replacing -- with n-dash, etc.

I've been getting very strange behavior since upgrading
to Powerpoint 2002 (10.4205.4219) SP2
on my Win2K Pro 5.00.2195 SP4 IBM Thinkpad

It works sometimes and sometimes not. In the text boxes where it doesn't
work I look at the autocorrect entries and mine aren't there. But I can
move to a different location in the same file--sometimes just to a
different text box on the same page and it works.
At first I thought it was only working on the text boxes defined on the
master pages but I see now that it is unrelated to that.

This is very bizarre and I am totally baffled. At this point it looks
like a bug but I thought I'd ask here before trying to wade thru the MS
web site.
Click to expand...

That is bizarre, Pete. Are all of your textboxes set with an English
language ID? (Tools/Language)
BTW--thanks for the post helping with the pasting text. If I had ever
tried that knob it slipped my mind. I sure wish I could set the default
to paste exactly what I cut--when moving text within the file it sure is
irritating to have to click the little box telling it what I want to do
everytime. On the rare occasions I want something different I never had
a problem using paste special (alt e s and whatever).
IMHO I don't think this is progress.
Click to expand...

I would agree with you there.
 
EXCELLENT!! That was it. I work for an international company and slides
get moved around a lot :-)
Noneworking autocorrect had UK english vs US

thank you! thank you!
 
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