Please ignore my last post - I have finally just managed to solve my own
problem.
I created a new template. Word would not let me save this as normal.dot as
it said this file already existed. I saved it under a different name, then
closed Word and in Windows Explorer, renamed it to normal.dot - this time
Windows did not object that the file "already existed", since Windows was
never able to find a file of that name. But now when I open Word, it seems
to be happily using my newly created normal.dot as the global template,
instead of whatever other hidden file it was using before.
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Nickyxx5
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
If you have Adobe Acrobat 7 installed, see the last portion of
http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adob...at_toolbar.htm
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"Nickyxx5" wrote in message
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I want to change my default margins in Word.
I know that to do this I need to change the normal.dot template - but I
can't find it anywhere! There is no file by this name in the location
that
Word Help says it should be. I have searched my entire computer for a
file
of this name - the search function cannot find one. I have also searched
my
entire computer for all .dot files - I still can't find one called
'normal'.
Clearly there must be some template file somewhere that Word is using to
base my documents on, but I do not know what it is called or where it is.
The folder in which Word Help says the normal template should be saved is
completely empty.
As an alternative way of changing my margins, I opened up a new blank
document, made the page margin changes I wanted and clicked on the
"Default"
option in the dialogue box. It said it had saved my changes, but next
time I
opened up a new document in Word, the margins were the same as ever and my
changes had not been registered.
So where has my normal.dot gone?
What template is Word using as its default? What is it called (since it's
not normal.dot) and where should I look for it (since it's not saved where
normal.dot should be found).
I am using Word 2003 from Office Professional Edition 2003. This is the
first time that I have tried to change anything in the normal template, so
I
don't know if it used to be there and has disappeared or got corrupted, or
if
there has been something funny going on ever since I installed it.
Thanks for any help!
Nicky
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Nickyxx5