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Pat Garard
Thanks Beth!
The 'Help' within the Beta is sparse - almost zilch on Quickparts.
Lots of people are discovering all these things over 'n over - nice to
have a focus or clearing house on such things.
Thanks again.
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Regards,
Pat Garard
Melbourne, Australia
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The 'Help' within the Beta is sparse - almost zilch on Quickparts.
Lots of people are discovering all these things over 'n over - nice to
have a focus or clearing house on such things.
Thanks again.
--
Regards,
Pat Garard
Melbourne, Australia
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Beth Melton said:I'm sure there's a LOT we all still don't know so I want 'More' too. ;-)
Are you referring to how Quick Parts and AutoText work or something else? If
it's general information you're after, there are a few articles on Office 2007
on this page and they will be updated periodically:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/community/article_archive.mspx
Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance
by email can not be acknowledged.
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Microsoft Office MVP
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MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/
Pat Garard said:Hi Beth,
This is a High Quality response - thank you.
I, for one, would like to know More...
...is there information we don't know about??
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Regards,
Pat Garard
Melbourne, Australia
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Beth Melton said:Did you assign the entries to the AutoText Gallery or Quick Parts gallery?
If you added them to the AutoText gallery then you can add the AutoText
command to the QAT which provides access to the AutoText gallery and the
ability to create new AutoText entries. To do so: right-click the Ribbon and
select "Customize Quick Access Toolbar". In the "Commands not in the
Ribbon", locate "AutoText" and add it to your QAT.
Although the AutoComplete tips are no longer available, you can type the
first few letters and press F3 to insert the entry or add the "Insert
AutoText" command to the QAT - it's in the "Commands not in the Ribbon" as
well.
Granted this isn't the perfect solution, but it's a little better than
opening the Building Blocks Gallery each time.
While I'd love to have the old methods back, given the boundaries of the new
UI, I'd say what they need to do is modify the current AutoText command and
organize the AutoText entries in to submenus according to the Category
(previously the Style) - similar to the way it used to be.
You can also still use Word for email. The "Email" command can also be found
in the "Commands not in the Ribbon" category for QAT customization. As in
previous versions, this will toggle the email headers and allow you to send
email using Word.
To migrate your AutoCorrect entries to Word 2007, use the macro found
AutoCorrect.dot which can be downloaded from:
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/Customization/ExportAutocorrect.htm. Open the
template in Word 2003 and run the Backup procedure which will create a
document of your AutoCorrect entries. Then open AutoCorrect.dot in Word 2007
and run the Restore procedure.
As for your AutoText entries, you might try replacing Normal.dotm (or
Normal.dotx) with your old Normal.dot. Then open Normal.dot in Word, open
the Microsoft Office Button, and click Upgrade. Then save it in the new file
format.
They also need to return the functionality to import AutoText entries in
Word 2007. The Organizer is still around but it no longer has the AutoText
tab.
So...it looks like to primary suggestions:
- Add organization to AutoText entries
- Provide the ability to import AutoText entries.
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"Greg Gates" <greg AT ringdesigner.com> wrote in message
Re: QuickParts not a substitute for Autocorrect>Autotext
RECAP OF WHAT WE POSTED BACK ON 052906
Situation in the past:
For Word/Outlook 2003, we would go Tools>Autocorrect>Autotext
to find our stored text information. For 2007, can't find it or our data
of
a lot of stored information?
Explanation of what we did:
We used Autocorrect>Autotext as a method to store hundreds paragraphs of
text to be used in the body of a response message. These paragraphs, some
including images, are use to respond to customers addressing a specific
topic
(ie responding to a person asking a question we have answered in detail
before).
For example, someone may ask about a diamond's clarity and what does it
mean? So we had a page of text (in Autocorrect>Autotext ) explaining that
topic in detail.
To type this text every time for every response, would be time consuming
and
not very cost effective. So we would just go to "Autocorrect>Autotext"
pick
the topic titled "Diamond's clarity detailed explanation with images
042705rev" The 042705 being the date we last revised the response text.
We
then inserted it into the body of the message.
Questions for the difference between 2003 and 2007:
I can't find our Autocorrect>Autotext entries on Outlook 2007 or Word 2007
anywhere (which I think were part of the normal.dot file in Word 2003).
Please don't tell us this is a feature that just went away without warning?
Or instructions as to how to migrate it? If so we just lost hundreds of
hours of text and revisions. My guess is we are not the only ones using
the
2003 Word/Outlook Autocorrect>Autotext function this way.
Help:
Is there a way to migrate all our Autocorrect>Autotext 2003 entries, or is
that hundreds of hours keying over the past several years lost forever?
AS OF TODAY 060406
Much of the feedback we received in this forum, suggested using the new
2007
QuickParts as a replacement. So we did just that!
And after doing that................
We really want to suggest to Microsoft they reconsider including the
Autocorrect>Autotext functionality into 2007.
-Bottom line, 2007 QuickParts does not even come close to the ease
and functionality of Word/Outlook 2003 (and ealier versions)
Autocorrect>Autotext.
-2007 QuickParts is not easy to work with.
-We painfully manually keyed in/added 60 of our
2003 Autocorrect>Autotext entries.
-Over the past 5 days, we used the 2007 QuickParts function
in our e-commerce business e-mail customer correspondence
to access the 60 stored entries. So we used it hands-on!
-Accessing each entry in 2007 QuickParts is nowhere near the ease
of 2003 Word/Outlook Autocorrect>Autotext! In fact 2007 QuickParts
is very very very very difficult to use.
-The hardest thing using 2007 QuickParts is accessing each individual
entry of the 60 QuickParts we stored .
-In 2003 Autocorrect>Autotext, it was so very easy to access any one of our
individual entries of stored text. Just start keying the first words,
and it filled in all the rest (or you could go retrieve it easily via a
button).
-2007 QuickParts is cumbersome and extremely awkward to use.
SUGGESTIONS
[1] Please Microsoft, bring back the function of 2003 Autocorrect>Autotext.
[2] Build some conversion function to bring into 2007 all the 2003
Autocorrect>Autotext entries
[3] OR build some tool to be able to quickly access the individual entries
stored in 2007 QuickParts. It will take us hours to repopulate all the
Autotext entries manually, but at least we will not lose the entire
function
that 2003 Autocorrect>Autotext provided small business and e-commerce
businesses.
Thank you for listening!
Regards,
Greg Gates
www.ringdesigner.com
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www.ringdesigner.com
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