You must close Word (and Outlook if you're using Word as the email editor in
Outlook) before you can rename (*not* delete!) Normal.dot.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site:
http://word.mvps.org
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"Pascale" wrote in message
...
Sorry Suzanne to bother you. I thought what you said would do the trick
but no.
I can't delete my normal.dot. When I try, I kept on having a window
popping
up which read:
"Can't delete normal: the file is in use by the following programme:
Microsoft Word File
You must close the file before proceding"
And before you ask: Of course I closed every programme and file except
outlook
Can you help please. Thanks Pascale (Oh Merry Christmas and Happy New
Year)
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
1. Absence of AutoText entries usually means that a document has been
saved
as Normal.dot. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm.
The status bar icon is the Spelling and Grammar Status indicator. If it
is
locking up the document, try disabling "Check spelling/grammar as you
type"
on the Spelling & Grammar tab of Tools | Options.
2. When you inserted a landscape page, you created a new section. You
evidently have numbering set to start at 1 in Section 2. In the
header/footer for Section 3, click Format Page Number on the Header and
Footer toolbar and choose "Continue from previous section."
If you want the "number of pages" in your document to be 8 rather than
the
total 9, then you'll need a workaround. The default NumPages field will
not
work, nor will SectionPages since you're trying to count two sections.
Given
that Section 3 is (and apparently always will be) only one page, you
could
use { = { SectionPages} + 1 }. Otherwise, you'll need to set a bookmark
on
the last page and insert a cross-reference (PageRef) to the page number
of
that bookmark instead of the NumPages field.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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newsgroup so
all may benefit.
"Pascale" wrote in message
...
Hello
I am working with Word 2003. I have 2 problems
1-when I go in my footer, not only does my toolbar with the "insert
auto
text" and all the buttoms does not appear, but I can't modify my tabs.
It
feels as if my doc is frozen and right at the bottom of my screen next
to
my
dictionary preferences (English UK) I have an icon of a book been
written
by
a pencil. This will stay as long as I am in my footer and seems to
make
the
whole doc un-responsive.
I have already copied and pasted this doc to a new word doc in the
hope it
would have an effect. no effect!
2-in the same doc, my last page is "landscape" where as the previous
ones
are "portrait". To do that I selected a section break (next page).
Somehow
in
my last page I have a header/footer with a Section3 starting there.
This
is
messing completly my auto page numbering with this last page reading
page
1
to 9 (which should be page 8)
Can you please help. Ahead many thanks.
Pascale