Ah thanks.
So what prompts Word to create a Normal.dotm? and do I want this rather than
a dotx? I thought it could be done by renaming the Normal.whatever is in
C:\Documents and Settings\[bod]\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates
There was also a Normal11.dot
I've renamed these files so I can start from scratch
I was actually hoping that I could set up a Normal.dot_ - by taking the one
created by Word and modifying it or by using the one I've created and given
to IT to distribute to all new installs as we go to Office 2007.
Even though I've renamed them all, when I open Word and pres ctrl+n I get a
blank doc with margins that are not the MS standard, but the styles, etc
don't seem to be changed. So I'm confused as to which doc components are
dictated by what.
You said that the Normal.dotm doesn't dictate the styles and page layout,
but Word is doing something to the page layout, if not the styles, but
there's no Normal.dot_ and it doesn't now seem to have recreated one. So it
seems the Normal.dotm was not dictating the ctrl+n new documents. So what
does dictate those?
I might need to start from the top.
....?
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
You can't "set up" a Normal.dotm. Only Word can create that file (but you
can open it and edit it). The template that you have created in your Startup
folder can supply macros and AutoText, but not styles or document-level
formatting (such as margins). Those come from the attached template, either
Normal.dotm or some other template on which you have based the document.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"Bod" wrote in message
...
Hi! I have set up a Normal.dotm (not sure why it's a dotm rather than a
dotx
- I keep my macros in a dot in the STARTUP folder... though when I try to
look at the macros it says "the project is unviewable").
I had set it up with certain margins, etc. When I _open_ it (as a
template)
the margins are correct. When I just double click it, or hit ctrl+n in
Word,
it makes a new docx but that doc doesn't have the right margins. I went
into
the page setup and said to do this as default for the template. That
didn't
work, so I opened the template _as a template_ again and did the same,
which
now seems to be working.
Now I see that new documents are still opening ready to use Calibri
instead
of arial and the Body Text style is not in use and doesn't appear in the
quick list.
This template is supposed to be rolled out by IT to all new machines - and
it has the correct set up but when users hit ctrl+n I'm afraid that they
won't get the desired results - as I didn't.
How do I make my machine use the template to make new documents that
reflect
the changes to the template?
How do I replicate this on all machines?
Thanks in advance.
"grammatim" wrote:
Open your normal.dotx (or normal.dotm, if you have any macros)
template, type something in the empty paragraph, assign the Body Text
style to it, delete what you typed, and close the template.
On May 30, 4:56 pm, PRR wrote:
I have read a lot of threads about making particular changes to styles,
but
I'm still not sure how I would do this:
I want to change the default style (that Word automatically uses
whenever I
open up a new document) from Normal to Body Text. I have done the
drill down
with the ribbon and with Body Text selected, clicked on Change Styles
and
then selected "Set as Default," but as soon as Word closes out and I
open up
a new document, its still Normal.
.