InfiniZ

Hello everyone....my mom types medical transcriptions for local doctors in our area and will soon be having a complicated surgery that will leave her incapable of walking for awhile.....however...she does all of her typing on the computer in our basement....so she won't be able to use that computer....I have a computer in my room and was wondering if there is a way to copy all of the shortcuts keys you set up in Word.....put them on a disk...and import them into a folder of some kind in the MSWord directory on my computer upstairs? Would there be a certain .ini file or .cfg file that would have all of those settings...or will I have to manually transfer her 500+ shortcuts?

Thanks in advance to anyone that can help me....my mother has surgery this coming Monday, May 16th so if anyone could help me out by then it would be great....

Regards,
InfiniZ

Admin

could find it now
will let u know

tijnema

Copy the file Normal.dot from your moms PC to your PC and it should be done...

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InfiniZ

Thank you very much for the speedy response....I will try this later today when I get home and post with the results....thanks again!




Regards,


InfiniZ

Admin

nice tijnema

InfiniZ

I can't seem to find "Normal.dot" in my "Microsoft Office" folder anywhere....could you specify a certain path?
Thanks alot!

Regards,
InfiniZ

Admin

C:\Documents and Settings\user name\Application Data\Microsoft\Office

if u move the contents of this i guess it will be moved not sure abt this

but give a try

InfiniZ

I'm sorry....I just noticed my mother is using Microsoft "Works". It is a different Suite than Office but still has Word....and I was also incorrect about these being "shortcut keys", they are actually her "auto-replace keys", (say if she types "asap" it replaces it with "as soon as possible")...thanks for all the help so far, and sorry for all the mix-ups....so if there is any way to transfer those from Microsoft Works to Microsoft Office just let me know...I posted a thread on the Microsoft support forums and still have not gotten a reply....

Thanks again!

Regards,
InfiniZ

tijnema

i guess your mother is using Word 6.0 and u are using Word 2003?
u can still copy the file normal.dot from your mother's computer, sry i dnt know the path cos i dnt use it, but it should be there, but then startup word 2003 --> File --> Open --> All files (*.*) --> open Normal.dot

now it should be done, come back with the results

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2oo7

InfiniZ

Thanks for all the help guys...I found the file tonight and got it all transferred....she had a total of 627 auto-replace keys....man...so glad I didn't have to do that by hand....

Thanks again for the help....

Regards,
InfiniZ