You're welcome.

--
Stefan Blom


"Phil James" wrote in message
...

Finally got it to work. I think what I was doing was trying to save
Normal.dot in one of the My Documents files. When I called it up
from its
own location and saved it back there after revision, everything
worked fine.

Thanks, both of you, for your help!

Phil


Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote in message
...
To add to what Stefan has said, if the template in question is
Normal.dot,
then you will have to open Normal.dot for editing and make the
change
there.

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"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
...
You cannot transfer hyphenation settings via "Add to template",
since
it's not a style thing, but a global document property. You can
change
the template if you open it via FileOpen, but for existing
documents
you need to perform the change manually for each document.

--
Stefan Blom


"Phil James" wrote:

Stefan...

Just tried it again. I open a new document, change the
hyphenation,
change
the page layout, change style (a font), check "add to
template,"
then get
out of the nested instructions, and yes, the hyphenation (and
everything
else) is present for that document. But if I delete it and
get a
new one,
everything stays except the hyphenation option. Unless
somebody
comes up
with a better idea, I guess I'll just have to change it for
each
document --
though that seems as if it should be unnecessary.

I'm running Windows 98 Second Edition and Office 2000 on an
IBM
ThinkPad
A27m. Know of any quirks with any of those items?

Thanks for trying!

Phil

PS: I might just post that particular question and see if
anybody
else
responds.


Stefan Blom wrote in message
...
I just tested, and if I open normal.dot as a file, via
FileOpen,
I
can certainly enable hyphenation for it, save and then get
hyphenation
enabled for each new blank document. I can't explain why it
doesn't
work for you, though. A bug affecting certain releases of
Word,
perhaps? In my opinion, the fact that other changes are
allowed
supports this theory.

--
Stefan Blom


"Phil James" wrote:

Suzanne...

I was able to change the page layout for Normal.dot by
doing
that
first
before changing the style and "saving to template." But
the
same
approach
doesn't work for hyphenation.

I know you said you don't have much experience with
automatic
hyphenation,
but perhaps you can find something for me better than I
can for
myself. If
you go to ToolsLanguageHyphenation there's a dialog box
which
allows you
to make choices regarding hyphenation. Even if I select
"Automatic
Hyphenation" before doing other things, the saved
Normal.dot
doesn't
show it
like it shows the page layout.

Any further thoughts? Anyone you know who might?

Thanks again...

Phil

Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote in message
...
See


http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...alTemplate.htm.
You
cannot create Normal.dot (or a substitute for it that
will
work),
but you
can certainly edit it. If you find that you can't delete
or
rename
it,
then
it's possible that it is saved in a network folder for
which
you
don't
have
the requisite permissions. This is *not* the way
Normal.dot
should
be
used;
see "You cannot share the Normal.dot file among multiple
users
in
Word" at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=811468

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Words into Type
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"Phil James" wrote in message
...

Thanks, Suzanne and Stephan.

Here's my experience:

You can create any custom template with any features
you
want --
except
Normal.dot! Try to save Normal.dot after modifying
and you
can't.
Also,
you can't delete it or rename it, so you can't replace
it.
That
problem
is
what I'm trying to get around.

Any ideas?

Phil

Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote in
message
...
I would be pleased to believe it works this way. I
just
don't
see
anything
in the hyphenation dialog that suggests that the
setting
is
being
saved
with
the document or that there is any way to save it in
a
template. But it
would
make sense that it is stored in the document, and
that if
you
open the
template and make the change there it would be
stored with
the
template.
In
that case, there is no reason that it should be any
different
for
Normal.dot. This would be clearer if there were
hyphenation
settings
in
Tools | Options (on the Spelling and Grammar tab,
which
could
become a
Language tab), since there are already settings
there that
are
language-specific (such as "Hide spelling errors in
this
document").
If
there were an "Add to template" option similar to
the one
in
Format |
Style
| Modify, that would be useful, too.

Since I don't ever use auto hyphenation, I'm not
familiar
with
this
feature,
and ISTR that in Publisher it is well-nigh
impossible to
set
it even
for
an
entire document (seems to be a text-box-specific
setting).

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Words into Type
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"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
...
FWIW, I
suspect that the hyphenation setting is stored
in the
Registry
rather than
Normal.dot.

I just tested creating a custom template with the
hyphenation option
enabled, and it seems to be working: Whenever I
create a
new
file
from
that template, hyphenation is enabled. Perhaps you
are
saying that
you
believe it works differently for normal.dot?

--
Stefan Blom


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote
in
message
...
For starters, see



http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...alTemplate.htm.
FWIW, I
suspect that the hyphenation setting is stored
in the
Registry
rather than
Normal.dot.

--
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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Phil James" wrote in
message
...

Help!

I can customize paragraph format, font, and a
few
other
things.
What I
can't customize is page layout (to give "first
page
different")
and turn
on
automatic hyphenation.

I tried to do this by modifying "Normal.dot"
but
Word
won't let
me
save
the
modified version nor delete the unmodified
one.

How do I do this?

Phil