It might, but it would not solve the problem of losing customizations; you'd
do better to rename Normal.dot and retrieve as many customizations as
possible as described at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm. Note that the main
thing that can't be retrieved are toolbar customizations, but custom
toolbars can, so you can get around this by creating a custom toolbar in the
original Normal.dot, dragging all the custom buttons/menus to it, saving,
then copying the custom toolbar into the new Normal.dot (using the
Organizer) and dragging the buttons/menus back to their normal place.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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http://word.mvps.org
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"jaminthepark" wrote in message
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Thank you Suzanne,
It is Word 2003 a part of Office 2003 suite. Would overwriting
normal.dot file with another one from different computer which is
armored with same version of Word solve the problem?
Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
In recent versions of Word, if the header of Normal.dot has ever been
modified (or even looked at cross-eyed), it retains an empty paragraph
that
can't be deleted. The only way to get rid of it, I'm afraid is to rename
Normal.dot, and I don't think it's worth losing all one's customizations
over such a minor annoyance (though this will definitely cause problems
with
labels).
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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"jaminthepark" wrote in message
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Hello,
One of our students has shown us when she creates a blank word doc, a
blank header is also automatically inserted. I wonder if there is a
way
to disable this what appears to be now default behaviour...
Thanks