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Word not creating normal.dot???
Using Word 2003 SP2
I was having some problems so did a hard drive search for normal.dot and deleted all instances of it. However, a new normal.dot is not re-created. I've searched the hard drive with word open. If I do a change to a document that would affect normal.dot, I'm not prompted to save normal.dot even though I have the option set to warn me for changes. I have windows explorer set to show the hidden and system files. I've checked a million times the user files location in options. I've done a repair, disabled all the .dot templates in startup. Nothing works. I cannot get a normal.dot back unless I copy one from somewhere else and put it in the templates folder. It's bizarre. The way that normal.dot tenaciously comes back could be described as sycophantic but I can't get it back. I'm out of ideas. Does anyone have any thoughts? -- TIA Rita |
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Word not creating normal.dot???
Do you have Acrobat 7 installed? This inhibits changes to normal.dot - see
the last section of http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org group wrote: Using Word 2003 SP2 I was having some problems so did a hard drive search for normal.dot and deleted all instances of it. However, a new normal.dot is not re-created. I've searched the hard drive with word open. If I do a change to a document that would affect normal.dot, I'm not prompted to save normal.dot even though I have the option set to warn me for changes. I have windows explorer set to show the hidden and system files. I've checked a million times the user files location in options. I've done a repair, disabled all the .dot templates in startup. Nothing works. I cannot get a normal.dot back unless I copy one from somewhere else and put it in the templates folder. It's bizarre. The way that normal.dot tenaciously comes back could be described as sycophantic but I can't get it back. I'm out of ideas. Does anyone have any thoughts? |
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Word not creating normal.dot???
On Sat, 1 Oct 2005 12:34:14 +0300, "Graham Mayor"
wrote: Do you have Acrobat 7 installed? This inhibits changes to normal.dot - see the last section of http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm I have uninstalled it. But... I was reading your article and I've noted that you have chosen to stop the addin from loading with a registry change. May I ask why do it that way rather than use the change option in Adobe 7 through add/remove programs in control panel? -- TIA for your reply Rita |
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Word not creating normal.dot???
In Word, do something that changes Normal.dot, then press Shift and click on
File. Now, click on Save All. Are you now prompted to save changes to Normal.dot? Check Tools - Options - File Locations and note the location for User Templates. This is where Normal.dot is stored. Now, open a new document window and choose File - Save As, and set Document Type to Word templates (*.dot). It should now list the documents in the User Templates location. Set Views to Details, and reverse sort by Date. Does Normal.dot show up on this list, either near or at the top? -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. wrote in message ... Using Word 2003 SP2 I was having some problems so did a hard drive search for normal.dot and deleted all instances of it. However, a new normal.dot is not re-created. I've searched the hard drive with word open. If I do a change to a document that would affect normal.dot, I'm not prompted to save normal.dot even though I have the option set to warn me for changes. I have windows explorer set to show the hidden and system files. I've checked a million times the user files location in options. I've done a repair, disabled all the .dot templates in startup. Nothing works. I cannot get a normal.dot back unless I copy one from somewhere else and put it in the templates folder. It's bizarre. The way that normal.dot tenaciously comes back could be described as sycophantic but I can't get it back. I'm out of ideas. Does anyone have any thoughts? -- TIA Rita |
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