Modifying normal.dot because of missing standard autotext entries

[merl123]

Hello,

In our Citrix/TS environment we have about 2000 users which all have a
normal.dot.
This normal.dot is a copy of a central normal.dot.
The user gets this normal.dot the first time they user Word. After that
their normal.dot is personal.
Our problem now is that this standard normal.dot has a fault. The standard
autotext entries are missing (footer/header etc.) This means that all
normal.dot files in the envirnoment have this problem. During user tests this
problem was not noticed.
We would like to modify the user normal.dot files by adding the standard
autotext entries, but at the same time the personal settings of these
normal.dot files should be unchanged.
I know normal.dot files can be modified by loading another dot file which
contains a macro for modifying the normal.dot.
The problem with this however is that I don't know how to add autotext this
way which contains standard fields like Author, page, date etc.
Normal text is not a problem.

Thanks in advance

 

[TonyJollans]

To do this 'properly' - that is to re-insert the built-in autotexts as they were is rather awkward. Using the OrganizerCopy function to copy them from another template means you will lose at least some of the Style-based organization. As I think the built-in autotexts are all plain text you could hard code a list of CreateAutoText functions. To find out what they all are, just start Word on a machine without a Normal.dot template and let Word create a new one which you can save and from which you can extract the details.

Enjoy,
Tony

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[mintjulep]

Could you go the long way around?

Save each user's normal.dot as user.dot.

Kill each flawed normal.dot and restore the corrected one.

Modify that normal.dot by adding the user.dot stuff back.

 

[merl123]

The long way around is no option, takes too much time for 2000 users.

It could be that we'll put another dot file in the word startup which contains the autotext entries