I have good/bad news. Although bad news that I had to buy a new computer…the good news is that after I got it back, I bought new version of MS Office and downloaded it. I then opened the "normal" file from my back up drive…all the Auto Texts were there. As in the past, I changed an autotext and then closed Word. I held my breath because, in the past, when Word closed, all the autotexts were gone…even new ones I created.



VOILA!!! The autotexts are recovered!!! Soooo, guess it was a computer issue…not a MS Word issue??