My client has graduated from Windows XP machines with Office 2003 to Windows 7 (64 bit) and Word 2013. They were sharing autotext entries in a shared network drive, and both machines had Workgroup templates set to this network drive.
The users seem to think they were sharing a normal.dot as (post migration) the normal.dotx contains the autotext entries they want. I've explained that normal templates cannot be properly shared and that the shared autotext entries must have been in a shared template (sharedot.dotx exists after the migration in a shared network drive), and that MS in its wisdom wants people to use Building blocks instead of autotext. If I can get the users to accept the new way of doing things, I still have issues that I need help with:
- Opening an existing document or opening a new document does not seem to make use of the sharedot.dotx template even though both computers have the personal template location set to the same shared network drive under Options>Save
- Only if Word is started by double clicking the sharedot.dotx template is this location available for a new autotext entry to be created, when most of the time they want to create new autotext entries when they have opened an existing document for editing
- Am I correct in thinking that in Word 2013 an Autotext entry cannot be edited/modified? The Building Block editing function only allows properties of the Autotext to be modified... AND whoever judged that the preview shown is large enough to be read needs to be sacked.
Feedback / advice please? Thank you: nwod