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cherylpf
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 Posted: 11/03/03 - 21:00 Post subject: dumb microsoft word question
I seem to have changed my normal new document template to be the document I was just typing somehow... tell me there is a way to change this....
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Floridaboiler
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Posted: 11/03/03 - 21:03 Post subject:
I am sure there is a way but I am drawing a blank at the moment.
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Posted: 11/03/03 - 21:12 Post subject:
If you can wait until tomorrow, I'll get you the answer.
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Posted: 11/04/03 - 08:46 Post subject:
I'm sure I could email you the normal.dot and before you d/l it you could change the name of the one you changed to normal1.dot or just delete the sucker altogether.
The other thing I think you could do is find your office cd, it would be in there.
You might even be able to d/l it from microsoft, not sure.
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Posted: 11/04/03 - 08:55 Post subject:
Have you tried opening templates, and then blowing away the normal.dot?
Then start a new doc and save it as Normal.dot?
I think I did that for someone here at the orifice and it worked. Just a thought. Course I could be 'membering it wrong too.
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brie k
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Posted: 11/04/03 - 09:10 Post subject:
| Maddie's Wench wrote: | Have you tried opening templates, and then blowing away the normal.dot?
Then start a new doc and save it as Normal.dot?
I think I did that for someone here at the orifice and it worked. Just a thought. Course I could be 'membering it wrong too. |
I'm just wondering though, aren't all new blank documents based on the normal template? Would deleting it make word blow up when you went to create a blank doc?
You could make a new doc, then select all, set the font to Times New Roman 12, and make sure the "styles and formatting" (on the formatting toolbar) is set to normal, then save as normal.dot and overwrite the one you have. I don't know that deleting the normal.dot is a good idea since it may or not may affect your ability to create a new document.
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purple hayes
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Posted: 11/04/03 - 09:18 Post subject:
Close out of MS Word. Find Normal.dot and rename it to something else. Re-open MS Word and I think that it will recreate a new normal.dot template if it can't find the original.
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Posted: 11/04/03 - 09:54 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | Close out of MS Word. Find Normal.dot and rename it to something else. Re-open MS Word and I think that it will recreate a new normal.dot template if it can't find the original. |
yeah that's it! I knew it was something like that. Maybe I tried that other thing and it didn't work.
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cherylpf
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Posted: 12/03/03 - 07:54 Post subject:
A month later (in an effort to procrastinate this paper I'm writing even longer) I finally did this and it worked perfectly, thanks PH, MW, BK!!! 
Oh, and deleting the template did do some bad bad things.  Thank goodness for document recovery and runningforums.com search 
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Posted: 12/03/03 - 10:50 Post subject:
In the future you want to save the normal.dot you customized to another file. That way if it gets corrupted/messed up/destroyed you can just do a Save As. Remember that if you let Word recreate the normal.dot it goes off of the defaults Microsoft feels are best, which often are not the best for you, such as the defaults for font size, paragraph alignment, page setup (margins, page orientation). PM me if you need more help/info - half of my professional life is creating training manuals in Word.
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