Nick goodwin wrote:
Since upgrading to Office 2003 we are prompted every time that we
exit word if we want to update the global template normal.dot.

Can this be suppressed

In addition to the advice from fellow contributors, note that you will get
this prompt if there are orphaned temporary files resulting from earlier
crashes. http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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