Word displays the Templates and Add-ins dialog box. Choose Templates and Add-Ins from the Tools menu.Instead of deleting the file, name it something else, such as OldNormal.dot.Outside of Word, use the Windows Search feature to find the Normal.dot file.If you don't want to do that, then you should use the second approach: rename the Normal.dot file and copy the AutoText entry into it using the Organizer. Deleting the file will get rid of these, as well. The drawback to this first approach is that Normal.dot also contains many (but not all) of your other customizations. (To delete the file, get out of Word and use the Windows Search function to locate and delete the file.) The missing AutoText entry will then be available. If you delete the Normal.dot file, Word will recreate it the next time you start the program. The first is related to the fact that AutoText entries are stored in the Normal.dot template for a system. There are two things you can try in order to recover the missing entry.

This entry (Filename and Path) is built into Word it is in the AutoText entries by default.

She was wondering how to get them back so she can again use them. Joan ran into a problem where the Filename and Path entry seems to be gone from her AutoText list.

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