[Stefan Blom]

It certainly works for me. Opening the Normal template as a document,
setting the view, adding and deleting a space (to mark the document as
modified), saving and closing seems to do the trick.

Did you verify that "Allow opening a document in Draft view" is still
checked in Word Options?

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Tom Smith" wrote in message ...
Word 2007 (new user to this version) under Win XP.

Asked a similar version of this question about two weeks ago, and got help
that I thought would solve things. But . . .

I have done the following:

1. Gone into Word Options and ticked "allow files to open in draft view."

2. Modified normal.dotm so that it 'should' open in draft view. When I
open normal.dotm as a template, by the way, it opens in draft view.

3. Tried to open a new file based on normal.dotm. It consistently opens in
print view.

Can someone help me understand what's going on, or what I'm doing wrong?
It's no big deal in a way (the view can be quickly switched), but I'm
struggling to figure out how things should work in this new version, and
this behavior is baffling.

Thanks, as always, for any replies.

Tom