You should never have more than one Normal.dot per user. This should be
stored in the appropriate location in each user's profile. Ordinarily,
Normal.dot is not refreshed at startup; if this is happening at your place
of employment, it may be caused by a login script of some kind. You should
take this up with the network administrator, as it is *not* the way Word is
designed to work. Normal.dot should not be shared among users and should be
used only as each individual user's scratchpad for customization. If your
employers want you to use a document with specific styles, it should be
created as a document template and placed in the workgroup templates folder.

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"yepp" wrote in message
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MSWord's default template is Normal.dot and I think every time a user
opens up Word, it generates a refreshed copy of Normal.dot. At my
work, they have created a template with unique styles and named it
Normal.dot.

Would Word replace this revised template with it's own?
What are the problems that could happen with having 2 Normal.dots?

Thanks