Actually, 189kb is rather large when you consider that a new one is 29KB and
more important, that it grows by itself without saving changes. We use
Office 2002 with Win2K
It is a daily growth of the file that is of interest to us.

What would cause it to grow - we have run virus, adware, spyware, etc scans
to eliminate any outside influences. Option settings seem normal.
Can anyone take a guess as to why the file seems to have a life of its own,
growth wise.

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Normal.dot is a user file and 189kb is a particularly small one at that. I
don't see why you are concerning yourself with this. However a better plan
would be to ensure that tools options save prompt to save normal.dot
is checked and then only required additions will be saved to it.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


PA wrote:
What are the potential problem areas that one should look at to
trouble shoot a constantly growing Normal template file, Normal.dot
I have a user whose file has grown from 45KB to 189KB in three days,
without having added any customizations to Word. Word has been used
for the basics of word processing only.
Any guidance would be appreciated.
Paul