Hi Folks ...
You know how you can "File", "Open" then in the dialog box where you can
type in the file name, and as soon as Office (or is it Windows) recognizes
part of the character string, it takes you to that file...

Well I ran a "registry cleaner" (X-Clean) the other day, and stupid me, I
must have chosen something to clean that I shouldn't have had chosen ...

Now, Office doesn't recognize the character string once I begin typing in a
file name. So to does Windows Explorer ... but somehow I lost that
functionality in Office. It's really an inconvenience; nothing critical, but
it's bugging me.

I tried "Repair" but that didn't fix. I haven't tried reinstalling Office
over the top of my existing files.

Any ideas??

Other "autocomplete" functions in Windows do seem to work however. For
example, in IE7, if I type in a URL in will recognize. Or

Hi georgef,

There's this from one of Beth Melton's replies to someone:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
..... So that must mean it is controlled by another setting and it looks like
it is this
key in the Registry:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\C ommon\General

And the String value: "Use AutoComplete" is what controls it. Make
sure this key is set to a value "Yes".
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I have Word 2003 on my PC and autocomplete was working. I checked the
registry and I didn't have a "Use AutoComplete" string value under the
General key.

I created one and set its value to "No" and the autocomplete stopped
working. I set the value to "Yes" and the autocomplete started working again.
I deleted the string value and autocomplete still worked.

Oddly (I think) I had to create the value with a space after "Use". It
seemed to be ignored if there was no space.

Maybe you could check (or create) this value for your version of Word. The
registry path will vary slightly according to the version.
Word 97 = 8, Word 2000 = 9, Word 2002 = 10, Word 2003 = 11, Word 2007 = 12.

Regards.

Ed


"georgef" wrote:

> Hi Folks ...
> You know how you can "File", "Open" then in the dialog box where you can
> type in the file name, and as soon as Office (or is it Windows) recognizes
> part of the character string, it takes you to that file...
>
> Well I ran a "registry cleaner" (X-Clean) the other day, and stupid me, I
> must have chosen something to clean that I shouldn't have had chosen ...
>
> Now, Office doesn't recognize the character string once I begin typing in a
> file name. So to does Windows Explorer ... but somehow I lost that
> functionality in Office. It's really an inconvenience; nothing critical, but
> it's bugging me.
>
> I tried "Repair" but that didn't fix. I haven't tried reinstalling Office
> over the top of my existing files.
>
> Any ideas??
>
> Other "autocomplete" functions in Windows do seem to work however. For
> example, in IE7, if I type in a URL in will recognize. Or

thank you for your help; alas, this did not restore the functionality ...
sigh. I appreciate though, you taking the time to help.

-george-


"Ed" wrote:

> Hi georgef,
>
> There's this from one of Beth Melton's replies to someone:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> .... So that must mean it is controlled by another setting and it looks like
> it is this
> key in the Registry:
>
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\C ommon\General
>
> And the String value: "Use AutoComplete" is what controls it. Make
> sure this key is set to a value "Yes".
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I have Word 2003 on my PC and autocomplete was working. I checked the
> registry and I didn't have a "Use AutoComplete" string value under the
> General key.
>
> I created one and set its value to "No" and the autocomplete stopped
> working. I set the value to "Yes" and the autocomplete started working again.
> I deleted the string value and autocomplete still worked.
>
> Oddly (I think) I had to create the value with a space after "Use". It
> seemed to be ignored if there was no space.
>
> Maybe you could check (or create) this value for your version of Word. The
> registry path will vary slightly according to the version.
> Word 97 = 8, Word 2000 = 9, Word 2002 = 10, Word 2003 = 11, Word 2007 = 12.
>
> Regards.
>
> Ed
>
>
> "georgef" wrote:
>
> > Hi Folks ...
> > You know how you can "File", "Open" then in the dialog box where you can
> > type in the file name, and as soon as Office (or is it Windows) recognizes
> > part of the character string, it takes you to that file...
> >
> > Well I ran a "registry cleaner" (X-Clean) the other day, and stupid me, I
> > must have chosen something to clean that I shouldn't have had chosen ...
> >
> > Now, Office doesn't recognize the character string once I begin typing in a
> > file name. So to does Windows Explorer ... but somehow I lost that
> > functionality in Office. It's really an inconvenience; nothing critical, but
> > it's bugging me.
> >
> > I tried "Repair" but that didn't fix. I haven't tried reinstalling Office
> > over the top of my existing files.
> >
> > Any ideas??
> >
> > Other "autocomplete" functions in Windows do seem to work however. For
> > example, in IE7, if I type in a URL in will recognize. Or

I suggest you do Windows System Restore to time prior to running said
"registry cleaner", hopefully you won't have to do a repair install or
worse. Also bin that piece of snake oil software.

georgef wrote:

> thank you for your help; alas, this did not restore the functionality ...
> sigh. I appreciate though, you taking the time to help.
>
> -george-
>
>
> "Ed" wrote:
>
>
>>Hi georgef,
>>
>>There's this from one of Beth Melton's replies to someone:
>>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>.... So that must mean it is controlled by another setting and it looks like
>>it is this
>>key in the Registry:
>>
>>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0 \Common\General
>>
>>And the String value: "Use AutoComplete" is what controls it. Make
>>sure this key is set to a value "Yes".
>>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>I have Word 2003 on my PC and autocomplete was working. I checked the
>>registry and I didn't have a "Use AutoComplete" string value under the
>>General key.
>>
>>I created one and set its value to "No" and the autocomplete stopped
>>working. I set the value to "Yes" and the autocomplete started working again.
>>I deleted the string value and autocomplete still worked.
>>
>>Oddly (I think) I had to create the value with a space after "Use". It
>>seemed to be ignored if there was no space.
>>
>>Maybe you could check (or create) this value for your version of Word. The
>>registry path will vary slightly according to the version.
>>Word 97 = 8, Word 2000 = 9, Word 2002 = 10, Word 2003 = 11, Word 2007 = 12.
>>
>>Regards.
>>
>>Ed
>>
>>
>>"georgef" wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi Folks ...
>>>You know how you can "File", "Open" then in the dialog box where you can
>>>type in the file name, and as soon as Office (or is it Windows) recognizes
>>>part of the character string, it takes you to that file...
>>>
>>>Well I ran a "registry cleaner" (X-Clean) the other day, and stupid me, I
>>>must have chosen something to clean that I shouldn't have had chosen ...
>>>
>>>Now, Office doesn't recognize the character string once I begin typing in a
>>>file name. So to does Windows Explorer ... but somehow I lost that
>>>functionality in Office. It's really an inconvenience; nothing critical, but
>>>it's bugging me.
>>>
>>>I tried "Repair" but that didn't fix. I haven't tried reinstalling Office
>>>over the top of my existing files.
>>>
>>>Any ideas??
>>>
>>>Other "autocomplete" functions in Windows do seem to work however. For
>>>example, in IE7, if I type in a URL in will recognize. Or

Hi George,

Sorry it didn't work; it seemed quite promising :-(

Hopefully you'll have better luck wth Bob's suggestion.

Regards.

Ed

"georgef" wrote:

> thank you for your help; alas, this did not restore the functionality ...
> sigh. I appreciate though, you taking the time to help.
>
> -george-
>
>
> "Ed" wrote:
>
> > Hi georgef,
> >
> > There's this from one of Beth Melton's replies to someone:
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > .... So that must mean it is controlled by another setting and it looks like
> > it is this
> > key in the Registry:
> >
> > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\C ommon\General
> >
> > And the String value: "Use AutoComplete" is what controls it. Make
> > sure this key is set to a value "Yes".
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > I have Word 2003 on my PC and autocomplete was working. I checked the
> > registry and I didn't have a "Use AutoComplete" string value under the
> > General key.
> >
> > I created one and set its value to "No" and the autocomplete stopped
> > working. I set the value to "Yes" and the autocomplete started working again.
> > I deleted the string value and autocomplete still worked.
> >
> > Oddly (I think) I had to create the value with a space after "Use". It
> > seemed to be ignored if there was no space.
> >
> > Maybe you could check (or create) this value for your version of Word. The
> > registry path will vary slightly according to the version.
> > Word 97 = 8, Word 2000 = 9, Word 2002 = 10, Word 2003 = 11, Word 2007 = 12.
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> > Ed
> >
> >
> > "georgef" wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Folks ...
> > > You know how you can "File", "Open" then in the dialog box where you can
> > > type in the file name, and as soon as Office (or is it Windows) recognizes
> > > part of the character string, it takes you to that file...
> > >
> > > Well I ran a "registry cleaner" (X-Clean) the other day, and stupid me, I
> > > must have chosen something to clean that I shouldn't have had chosen ...
> > >
> > > Now, Office doesn't recognize the character string once I begin typing in a
> > > file name. So to does Windows Explorer ... but somehow I lost that
> > > functionality in Office. It's really an inconvenience; nothing critical, but
> > > it's bugging me.
> > >
> > > I tried "Repair" but that didn't fix. I haven't tried reinstalling Office
> > > over the top of my existing files.
> > >
> > > Any ideas??
> > >
> > > Other "autocomplete" functions in Windows do seem to work however. For
> > > example, in IE7, if I type in a URL in will recognize. Or