What Charles was asking was whether you had checked the box for "Prompt to
save Normal template" on the Save tab of Tools | Options. This will force
Word to ask your permission before saving Normal.dot and allow you to say
no.

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"Gordon Potter" wrote in message
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Yes Charles I did read your link.

I am not sure what you mean by "change the setting for the prompt?" I
have
removed the addins -- i.e. when I open Word; Tools; Templates and Add-ins"
nothing is listed in the box for Addins. Similarly the Com Add-ins box is
empty. If you mean did I remove checkmarks, there are no boxes for check
marks even.

The time and date of my normal.dot changes every time I open Word - not a
document just Word. The normal.dot file size still increases in size.

Additionally in the odd event something in Normal.dot was caused problems
I
have both deleted it and copies another normal.dot from another PC without
the behavior.

Also I am clean and current Microsoft's AntiSpyware and Norton's AV.
"Charles Kenyon" wrote:

Did you (1) change the setting for the prompt?
(2) read the article on Add-Ins?
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"Gordon Potter" wrote in
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Charles I opened Word, clicked on Tools in the Menu and then
Templates.
There were only two listed. Adobe Acrobate (not loaded) and a
Documents
to
Go Addin (DVZWDaddin.dot) which had a check mark. I finally chased
down
the
copies of the second addin and renamed them. I have rebooted the PC
and
my
Normal.dot file is still changing and growing every time I open Word.

Any other ideas?

"Charles Kenyon" wrote:

I suspect you have a poorly written Add-In that keeps changing your
normal.dot. The first line of defense is under Tools Options
Save.
Check
the box to prompt to save changes to normal.dot.

Then check for Add-Ins.
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...sInstalled.htm
Decide what they do, and whether you want them. If not, uinstall
them.

Write to the company that installed the Add-In on your computer
without
asking you and send them a bill for your time.
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"Gordon Potter" wrote in
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Word 2002, SP3, Operating System Win WP Prof.

About a month ago Word crash upon opening. I deleted Normal.dot
and
things
were "normal" again. Yesterday Word began crashing again. I
noticed
my
Normal.dot file was about 984K -- Deleted it again. Now I observe
the
normal.dot file increases in size everytime I open Word - not need
to
change
Word settings or open a document. This does not happen on my
second
PC.