Joe, Thanks to your insight I was able to track down the problem. The company laptop that I am using was probably set up by a contract company that used disk cloning to install software. They apparently did not set up any of the laptops with the AutoCorrect file path. With your information I found from Microsoft KB: (http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q135/8/72.asp) where the paths to the ACL files are stored in the Registry. From that I was able to modify the Registry to point to the ACL files. Before I had none of the standard words, only the "emoticons" and arrows. Thanks for your help. At 10/22/98 09:43 AM , Joe Pearson wrote: > >I think the autocorrect entries are stored in a .ACL file in the >\Windows directory. The actual name may relate to your user name, but >on my PC, it's the name of the guy who installed office for me... >there's also a MSO97.ACL which does not get updated. > >>-----Original Message----- >>The Doc wrote: >>>> There has to be a simple way to add to the Auto Correct tool and have it >>>> available for future documents. Doug Simmons +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ----- PCSOFT mailing list - http://nospin.com Bob Wright:[log in to unmask] - Drew Dunn:[log in to unmask]