moving autocorrect files

Question

Can anyone help me move my autocorrect files from one computer with Office 2010 to another computer with Office 2016? thans!

Answer 1

You use the same tool you used to make the backup on the new computer to restore them.

Answer 2

See http://jay-freedman.info for an add-in (the AutoCorrect.dotm template in Autocorrect2007.zip) that has macros to back up all your entries (both formatted and unformatted--that is, both those saved in the Normal template and those saved in .acl files) and restore themo n another system

Answer 3

See also Greg Maxey's tool which works similarly.

It, too, looks to see whether the entries are formatted or not formatted.

Note also that unformatted AT entries are stored in language-specific files.

AutoCorrect Utility Manager

Answer 4

When you go to the AutoCorrect Options dialog box in Word and click on an entry row, one of the two radio buttons above the "With" box will be filled in -- either Plain text or Formatted text. The formatted entries are stored in Normal.dotm and are available only in Word, while the plain entries are stored in .ACL files (one per language) and are available to the other Office programs as well.

The AutoCorrect.dotm backup macro creates a table in the backup document, and the third column records the type of entry: "False" means it's plain text and "True" means it's formatted text. The restore macro uses that data to store the entry with the corresponding type.

If entries that should be plain text are being stored as formatted text, that could explain why they're available only in Word. Open the backup document and look at the third column of the table. If it says "True" where it should say "False", you can change it. I'd suggest that you then delete the incorrect entries from the AutoCorrect Options dialog in Word 2016 before rerunning the Restore macro.

If all the entries are correctly marked, it's possible that the proofing language differs between Word and the other Office programs, so they're looking at a different .ACL file than the one that was updated by Word. In each program, go to File > Options > Language and make sure the same language is set as the default for all of them.

Answer 5

thanks for your help. that works nicely for Word. But previously, all my autocorrect entries worked in all Office applications. Now my autocorrect entries only work with Word. Is there a fix for this?