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Old April 24th, 2004, 04:13 AM
Beth Melton
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Hi Steve,

Well... for those who do crazy things in Word that behavior could be
expected. g

One item I don't understand in your post though, what is a 'loose
style definition in the body of the document' and how could it cause
corruption in Normal.dot??

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G'day Beth,

yeah - that's also a valid point, the flipside is my normal stays
stable for yonkers, I have everything set 'nicely' and it still
wants
to be petted and saved. Word Happens...

Additionally, I have renamed Normal before and still had word spazz
out with a corrupt Normal in no short time. True, I am a developer

and
always doing crazy things with Word. But the point is certain
combinations of actions can kill normal and it has nothing to do

with
saving it overly regularly - excluding having Fast Saves on of

course
which will kill it rapidly. Example sequence, using a toolbar from a
global template, mod it from normal context, then from its parent,
then from normal, then from another template, then from normal

again.
Close Word, move this template elsewhere. Create another toolbar

with
the same name in a global template and repeat. Quit Word, load both
templates, enjoy. These probably a few caveats in there but when I
play silly buggers with the toolbar collection programatically and I
screw up the context, all hell breaks loose rapidly and normal is

dead
again.

As for add-ins - if they create / destroy commandbars which is a
popular novice technique that isn't dangerous then you can get this
behaviour. Etc. Hell, a loose style definition in the body of the
document could cause it :-)


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Old April 25th, 2004, 05:23 AM
sf
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On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 12:46:20 -0700, "Annie"
wrote:

I'm trying to changing the default format which comes up
in word 2000. I must have saved a letter as the normal
template and now that letter keeps coming up. All I want
is a blank page. Any ideas on how to get rid of the
normal.dot template?

Have you tried deleting all of the text from it (to make a
blank document) and saying "yes" when it asks you if you
want to save your changes?


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Old April 27th, 2004, 01:06 AM
Word Heretic
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G'day "Beth Melton" ,

Auto update :-)


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Beth Melton reckoned:

Hi Steve,

Well... for those who do crazy things in Word that behavior could be
expected. g

One item I don't understand in your post though, what is a 'loose
style definition in the body of the document' and how could it cause
corruption in Normal.dot??

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/


"Word Heretic" wrote in message
news
G'day Beth,

yeah - that's also a valid point, the flipside is my normal stays
stable for yonkers, I have everything set 'nicely' and it still

wants
to be petted and saved. Word Happens...

Additionally, I have renamed Normal before and still had word spazz
out with a corrupt Normal in no short time. True, I am a developer

and
always doing crazy things with Word. But the point is certain
combinations of actions can kill normal and it has nothing to do

with
saving it overly regularly - excluding having Fast Saves on of

course
which will kill it rapidly. Example sequence, using a toolbar from a
global template, mod it from normal context, then from its parent,
then from normal, then from another template, then from normal

again.
Close Word, move this template elsewhere. Create another toolbar

with
the same name in a global template and repeat. Quit Word, load both
templates, enjoy. These probably a few caveats in there but when I
play silly buggers with the toolbar collection programatically and I
screw up the context, all hell breaks loose rapidly and normal is

dead
again.

As for add-ins - if they create / destroy commandbars which is a
popular novice technique that isn't dangerous then you can get this
behaviour. Etc. Hell, a loose style definition in the body of the
document could cause it :-)


Steve Hudson - Word Heretic
Want a hyperlinked index? S/W R&D? See WordHeretic.com



 




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