Thank you everyone for your suggestions - I have tried following them all,
but still to no avail. People have suggested finding my normal.dot and
editing it/moving it/renaming it, whatever, but seriously I DO NOT HAVE ONE!
I have searched my entire system, showing hidden files and file extensions
and there is no file anywhere called normal.dot. There are no other template
files stored where the normal.dot should be.
All the Word help pages and links people have posted here say that if you
delete or rename your normal.dot, Word will just create a new one each time
it starts up, and save it in the default template folder location, but mine
doesn't. It is still using as the default template a file I cannot find
anywhere on my system, so I can't delete/move/modify/rename it. I can't
understand how this is possible. I have looked everywhere on my system for
any .dot file that Word could be using and I literally cannot find anything.
I am reasonably computer literate and am confident I have searched everywhere
possible, including any hidden files.
If I just create my own document template, can I force Word to make it the
default? The Word help pages only describe how to edit normal.dot (which is
no good to me as it doesn't exist on my system), not how to set a different
template as default. If I create a new template and try to call it
normal.dot, Word will not let me save it because it says a file of that name
already exists, even thought I literally cannot find it anywhere on my
computer.
Am I going mad?!
Thanks
Nicky
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"Nickyxx5" wrote in message
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I want to change my default margins in Word.
I know that to do this I need to change the normal.dot template - but I
can't find it anywhere! There is no file by this name in the location
that
Word Help says it should be. I have searched my entire computer for a
file
of this name - the search function cannot find one. I have also searched
my
entire computer for all .dot files - I still can't find one called
'normal'.
Clearly there must be some template file somewhere that Word is using to
base my documents on, but I do not know what it is called or where it is.
The folder in which Word Help says the normal template should be saved is
completely empty.
As an alternative way of changing my margins, I opened up a new blank
document, made the page margin changes I wanted and clicked on the
"Default"
option in the dialogue box. It said it had saved my changes, but next
time I
opened up a new document in Word, the margins were the same as ever and my
changes had not been registered.
So where has my normal.dot gone?
What template is Word using as its default? What is it called (since it's
not normal.dot) and where should I look for it (since it's not saved where
normal.dot should be found).
I am using Word 2003 from Office Professional Edition 2003. This is the
first time that I have tried to change anything in the normal template, so
I
don't know if it used to be there and has disappeared or got corrupted, or
if
there has been something funny going on ever since I installed it.
Thanks for any help!
Nicky
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