I moved both desktop and laptop to Windows 10 just before the end-July deadline (was on Windows 7). Made very sure all drivers were correct. All has worked okay.



MS Word froze a couple of times on the desktop. Well, I was doing complicated things. It's happened before.

Then, recently, Word froze again. On recovery I was asked if I wanted to save changes to the template. Having just added autocorrect items and maybe an autotext, I said yes.

There was a message at some stage, saying Word could not find a file called 'building blocks' (was it 'BuildingBlocks.doc' or something?). Clicked through that.

Now, my autotexts are all there -- but when I tried to use a macro a message came saying to change the security settings. I went to the Trust Center to check. It looked okay but just to be sure I enabled all macros.

Tried using my macro again. Still no dice.

Tried the Developer->Macros command. No macros were there.

Went to a document file saved a few days back. No macros there.

Went to Users\MyName\Documents\Custom Office template. Found no normal.dotx. There was a normal.docx, so loaded that -- no macros.

Found a normal.dotx stored away elsewhere a while back. Opened it -- no macros.

Went to Users\MyName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates. Found a normal.dotm file. Opened it -- no macros.

All macros are somehow completely absent or inaccessible on the desktop. Arrgghh...!

On the laptop, everything is okay. But the autocorrect and autotext items are a few months out of date. So I'm not keen just to copy the normal file(s) across.

So I'm thinking to copy the macros into a text file and insert them manually into the relevant template on the desktop -- presumably the .dotm file that's in AppData\Roaming. Should work.

Still, it's scary flying blind. It would be good to know what is happening here.

Any input most welcome. Thanks!