I'm using Acrobat 8 Pro and MS Word 2003. I use a lot of custom AutoText entries in Word to insert boilerplate text into legal documents. Recently, every time I attempt to insert AutoText, the menu options have been overtaken by "Convert to Adobe PDF." The AutoText custom entries are still defined, but I have to go into the AutoText dialogue box to access them. What gives?
It almost sounds as though there there is a problem with your global template (Normal.dot) in Word. You might try renaming the Normal.dot (not deleting) to see if this resets the autotext. There is a suggestion for how to do this procedure at:
[url=http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=329852&sliceId=2]http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=329852&sliceId=2[/url]Hope this helps,
Lori
Lori Kassuba is an AUC Expert and Community Manager for AcrobatUsers.com.