Word 2003 - Acrobat XI Std. - autotext normal.dot - unable to change

After installing Acrobat XI Standard at Word 2003 i can not Change the Autotext entries at normal.dot.
Before installing XI Acrobat 7 with the ppecial patch was installed, but since the last Windows 7 Update, Acrobat 7 did not run.
What can i do?
Thx

Hi, the installation of the Acrobat was completely normal. After installation, I could not make any more changes to the text blocks / autotext, that are stored in the files normal.dot. Word makes no changes to the file normal.dot when closing of Word. I uninstalled Acrobat again and the changes of the text blocks normal.dot are again possible. Something in Acrobat blocked the storage of text blocks.

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