Hello Jay,

How right you were - right there in the Normal.dot, Properties, under the
Summary tab, in the Title field sits a lonly "1". As how it got there, I
can't explain either. And I, who thought I kept the normal.dot nice and
tidy, with regular backups and everything, I didn't even notice it.

Well, you solved my problem - thank you very much for your help, it's much
appreciated.

Best regards,


Eric G
Stockholm, Sweden.



"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
| Hi Eric,
|
| The "first few words" suggestion is actually Word's second choice, used
only
| if the Title field of the File Properties dialog is empty. In your case,
I
| suspect that the Title field of your Normal.dot contains the character
"1",
| this is being propagated into each new document, and it's being used to
| suggest the file name.
|
| To fix this, open Normal.dot itself -- use File Open, set the file type
| dropdown to "Word Template", navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\your
| login name\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates, and select Normal.dot.
Go
| to File Properties and clear the Title box. Save and close the template.
|
| As for how the "1" got there, this is probably a variation of the problem
| described at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm --
| although we still don't really know why that happens.
|
| --
| Regards,
| Jay Freedman
| Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
|
| Eric G wrote:
| MS Word 2003 SP1 & XPP SP2
|
|
|
| Hello,
|
| When saving a new document in Word, Word used to suggest the first
| couple of words in the document as a file name. Now Word has started
| to suggest "1.doc" as my new file name, irrespective of what the
| documents first couple of words are.
|
| On removing (actually temporarily renaming) the "normal.dot" and
| restarting Word, a new "normal.dot" is created and Word once again
| uses the first couple of words as the name of the new file to be
| saved.
|
| My problem is that I have so many setting, macros and other
| information stored in my old "normal.dot", that I would like to keep
| this old version (that was newly created when I started with the 2003
| version of Word). But this with suggesting "1.dot" for every new file
| name is rather annoying.
|
| My questions:
|
| What have I done to Word, that makes it change its behavior?
|
| How, and where, can I reset or change this annoying behavior?
|
| Grateful for any suggestions.
|
| Regards,
|
| Eric G
| Stockholm, Sweden
|
|