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Disable AutoCorrect

Asked by: kamur

Hello,
I have created a word template specific for our application...I want to disable Tools-->AutoCorrect option. I dont want users going in there and playing with it...

If the above thing is not possible, is there a way that they can see the AutoCorrect dialog, but everything there is disabled/greyed out so that they cannot change anything.

Thanks

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2003-10-22 at 19:59:06ID20775345
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Answers

 

by: sunray_2003Posted on 2003-10-22 at 20:55:37ID: 9604251

 

by: kamurPosted on 2003-10-22 at 21:23:40ID: 9604331

I had looked at that before posting the question...That didnot help me...

Kamur

 

by: bruintjePosted on 2003-10-23 at 04:06:03ID: 9605633

think it's not possible to simply disable the feature that's making it greyed out, the only thing that certainly would work is disabling the tools | options menu completely by turning it off when the user starts word but this will limit what users can change in their word environment for the session

 

by: JOrzechPosted on 2003-10-23 at 06:55:15ID: 9606725

I believe this is a registry setting and you would have to include a registry modification in your code.

 

by: MellowD0cPosted on 2003-10-23 at 13:48:03ID: 9610111

You could probably do that with VBA

 

by: kamurPosted on 2003-10-23 at 19:03:37ID: 9611693

I am not sure...I have a feeling that bruintje is right on that it is not possible..

JOrzech, will you be knowing the exact registry settings or changes for this..

MellowD0c, could you please share with a sample vba solution, if it is possible..

Wishfully hoping that there will be a solution
thanks

 

by: JOrzechPosted on 2003-10-24 at 07:32:37ID: 9614405

I found this article on it...

http://dbforums.com/arch/84/2002/6/397563

 

by: plauwaerPosted on 2003-10-24 at 12:35:52ID: 9616756

Put the following code in your template:

Sub ToolsAutoManager()
   MsgBox "Sorry you can not play with this."
End Sub

Patrick

 

by: kamurPosted on 2003-10-24 at 17:21:36ID: 9618153

Thanks JOrzech and plauwaer....
I really liked both solutions..but I have a question though..

Jorzech's solution applies to all Office, not just Word, right?

Plauwaer's solution is cool and simple, but it affects all the word templates..Can I make it work for just one specific word template, say new.dot.

Regards

 

by: kamurPosted on 2003-10-24 at 17:38:56ID: 9618217

Hi plauwaer,

what is this ToolsAutoManager..

I tried searching this site, google,yahoo, microsoft.com....everywhere NO results for this...Could you please share more info..

regards

 

by: plauwaerPosted on 2003-10-25 at 04:44:15ID: 9619254

Hi kamur,

1. The solution does NOT effect all word templates, unless you place it is the normal.dot template. If you place it in the new.dot template it works only for that template and for documents based on that template.

2. I'll try to explain how i came to ToolsAutoManager

If you want to redefine a word-command for example "menu File>Open "you use

Sub FileOpen()
End Sub

So for  "menu Tools>AutoCorrect" i tried

Sub ToolsAutoCorrect()
End Sub

but it didn't work so i had to search the correct name,

I used F2 in visual basic to search the object library and found the constant
wdDiaologFileOpen

so i tried al the names that started with

wdDialogTools...

and ToolsAutoManager worked.

regards

Patrick







 

by: kamurPosted on 2003-10-25 at 07:35:56ID: 9619560

Thanks very much Patrick...I am using your solution now and it works fine..That was really a cool solution..

JOrzech, Bruintje  thanks for your thoughts also on this one...it helped my understanding too..

Best,

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