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From: JGreg7 on 1 Mar 2010 14:21
Thank you very much for all of your help with this issue.

After spending a good portion of my Saturady copying each of my AutoText
entries into the NormalEmail.dotm per the instructions you posted for me, I
lost all of the changes. Apparently, you can not have Outlook open while you
make the changes. I saved the NormalEmail.dotm file only to have Outlook
over-write it when it closed.

Long story, however After spending about two weeks struggling with removed
features, differnt menus, and software limitations, I give up. I have gone
back to Office 2003, everything is working fine, just as it is supposed to.
As far as I am concerned, Office 2007 is a failed experiment.

I am hoping the next version returns the missing capabilities and they do
away with the new menu structure (or at least give you the optional menu view
e.g. "Classic View")
--
Thank you,
John Gregory


"Leonid S. Knyshov // SBS Expert" wrote:

> On 2/26/2010 3:15 PM, JGreg7 wrote:
> > I followed the procedure to migrate the autotext entries, and it does work.
> > The process however is exteemly cumbersome. You have to individually open
> > each entry, and save it to the other template. I have hundreds of entries.
> >
> > I was expecting something like the old Styles Organizer in Word 2003 where
> > you could just select a group and copy them all at once.
> >
> > What is really curious, even after Microsoft has gone to the trouble of
> > creating an independent place to put the autotext entries, why would they not
> > make it available to Outlook as well? This makes no sense to me.
> >
> > It seems that an improvement of this type could have been easily applied to
> > all of the office programs from a single library - now that would have been
> > an improvement!
> >
> > Any way, thank you for your help. It seems I have a long night ahead of me
> > copying the individual autotext entries one at a time.....
> Hi Greg,
>
> Sorry about the pain.
>
> I am sure this can be done with a macro. You may want to post a project
> on odesk.com to have someone code it for you. :)
> --
> Leonid S. Knyshov
> Crashproof Solutions
> 510-282-1008
> Twitter: @wiseleo
> http://crashproofsolutions.com
> Microsoft Small Business Specialist
> Please vote "helpful" if I helped you :)
> .
>
From: Leonid S. Knyshov // SBS Expert on 1 Mar 2010 14:42
On 3/1/2010 11:21 AM, JGreg7 wrote:
> Thank you very much for all of your help with this issue.
>
> After spending a good portion of my Saturady copying each of my AutoText
> entries into the NormalEmail.dotm per the instructions you posted for me, I
> lost all of the changes. Apparently, you can not have Outlook open while you
> make the changes. I saved the NormalEmail.dotm file only to have Outlook
> over-write it when it closed.
>
> Long story, however After spending about two weeks struggling with removed
> features, differnt menus, and software limitations, I give up. I have gone
> back to Office 2003, everything is working fine, just as it is supposed to.
> As far as I am concerned, Office 2007 is a failed experiment.
>
> I am hoping the next version returns the missing capabilities and they do
> away with the new menu structure (or at least give you the optional menu view
> e.g. "Classic View")

Yeah that happens. Always save a copy of a document whenever you work
with tricky things like startup macros.

Please consider beta testing Office 2010. The teams are actively
accepting feedback on that product and it's probably your best chance to
be heard.

I'd post a project on odesk to have someone write me a macro for this.
$50 would be a sufficient enticement for something this simple.
--
Leonid S. Knyshov
Crashproof Solutions
510-282-1008
Twitter: @wiseleo
http://crashproofsolutions.com
Microsoft Small Business Specialist
Please vote "helpful" if I helped you :)
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