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[drdoug]

Hi all,

I'm moving my transcription 'setup' to another computer and would love to be able to put my same MS Word 2002 'dictionary' and 'auto text' setup into the new computer so I don't have to start building up my medical vocabulary and auto text entries on a new machine. This would take a very long time.

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks

Doug

[drdoug]

Here's part of the answer (incase anyones interested):

I figured out part of the problem. I was able to simply drag a copy of Custom.doc over our network and into the new computers 'Proof' folder (which is where WORD keeps the custom.doc dictionary)Next I renamed the existing custom.doc to customOLD.doc,and set my desired 'custom.doc' as the default dictionary.

Here's a little tutorial on the subject that I made:

Changing the ‘Custom Dictionary’ in Word 2002

1) On your New Computer/target computer, you will need to ‘Change the name of ’your current ‘custom.doc’ file to customOLD.doc (or anything .doc ) [You can’t have two ‘custom.doc’s’]) Path: C:\>Documents&Setting >Administrator> Application Data(hidden)> Microsoft> Proof

2) Grab/Copy your favorite custom dictionary from ‘your main computer’. (C:\>Documents&Setting>Administrator>Application Data(hidden)>Microsoft> Proof>Custom.doc)

3) Now Burn it to a CD or Drag it over your network into the ‘Proof directory’ in your New Computer. (Doc&Settings> Administrator> Application Data> Microsoft> Proof)

4) Now make sure it is set as the ‘Default Dictionary’ by going to: ( MSWord> Tools> Options> Spelling & Grammar> Custom Dictionaries > ) Now just hit ‘set as default’. You can also check more than on dictionary.

5) This last step sometimes is necessary to get it working: hit the ‘Recheck Document’ button. Then close then restart MS Word for good luck. Path: (MSWord>Tools>Options>Spelling & Grammar> ‘ReCheck Document’.)

Now I've got to figure out the 'autotext' problem, which is the main problem.

[drdoug]

I got the how to move 'autotext' answer now.

It was unbelievably simple! Auto text entries are saved in the 'normal.dot' file. So all I had to do was copy the 'normal.dot' from my old computer and paste it into my new one. ( Also, of coarse you must rename the current normal.dot to something like normalOLD.dot.

Works great now.

Thanks to MS knowledge base.

[Phonics Monkey]

drdoug, on Apr 10 2003, 15:05, said:

Thanks to MS knowledge base.

Handy little bugger isn't it

Thanks for posting your findings, I'm saving them in my tweaks library. That info's gota be handy as hell one of these days

[DangerousDave86]

nice, im always looking for ways to transfer and asve settings in my pc, shame i dont use either of these features tho, still good info