I have MSO Word 2003 and cannot remove the newspaper column from new blank
Word documents. Does anyone know how to do that?
Thanks In Advance

To remove them, all you have to do is go to the "Standard" toolbar and click
on the "Column" icon and click a single column. This will change your page
formatting to a single column, which is a normal page.

A few points though:

1. When you open a "NEW" document, are you using the "New Blank Document"
icon from the Standard toolbar, or are you clicking File, New and then
selecting a document type?
2. The reason I ask this is that by default, the blank document does not add
newspaper columns to blank documents.
3. Therefore, if you are not using the "New Blank Document" icon, it would
be recommended.

Hope this helps. :-)
--
Bill M


"CZ9999" wrote:

I have MSO Word 2003 and cannot remove the newspaper column from new blank
Word documents. Does anyone know how to do that?
Thanks In Advance

Somehow your Normal.dot (the template on which new Blank Documents are
based) has gotten formatted for columns. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm for instructions
for finding and editing Normal.dot.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"CZ9999" wrote in message
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I have MSO Word 2003 and cannot remove the newspaper column from new blank
Word documents. Does anyone know how to do that?
Thanks In Advance

Thanks so much for responding, Bill.
I tried all of your suggestions, but the Column lines are still there.
Thanks again. :-)

"Bill M" wrote:

To remove them, all you have to do is go to the "Standard" toolbar and click
on the "Column" icon and click a single column. This will change your page
formatting to a single column, which is a normal page.

A few points though:

1. When you open a "NEW" document, are you using the "New Blank Document"
icon from the Standard toolbar, or are you clicking File, New and then
selecting a document type?
2. The reason I ask this is that by default, the blank document does not add
newspaper columns to blank documents.
3. Therefore, if you are not using the "New Blank Document" icon, it would
be recommended.

Hope this helps. :-)
--
Bill M


"CZ9999" wrote:

I have MSO Word 2003 and cannot remove the newspaper column from new blank
Word documents. Does anyone know how to do that?
Thanks In Advance

Hi Suzanne. Thanks for your response. I renamed the Normal.dot file to
Normal.dot.old and re-opened Word, but the blank document came back with the
same 1 column lines.
sigh
Thanks again.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Somehow your Normal.dot (the template on which new Blank Documents are
based) has gotten formatted for columns. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm for instructions
for finding and editing Normal.dot.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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all may benefit.

"CZ9999" wrote in message
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I have MSO Word 2003 and cannot remove the newspaper column from new blank
Word documents. Does anyone know how to do that?
Thanks In Advance

I believe part of your problem is in the renaming. Granted, Suzanne may be
able to tell you for certain, but the file still has to end in .dot to be a
Word template file. I'm not sure if it would fail to read past the .dot or
just no longer consider it a template file.

Have you tried setting a blank page format the way you want it and saving
that as your normal.dot template file? When you select to save a file as a
template instead of the default Word document (.doc) format, it automatically
takes you to the directory where templates are kept. That way, you don't
have to wonder if the system did it for you or not.
--
Bill M


"CZ9999" wrote:

Hi Suzanne. Thanks for your response. I renamed the Normal.dot file to
Normal.dot.old and re-opened Word, but the blank document came back with the
same 1 column lines.
sigh
Thanks again.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Somehow your Normal.dot (the template on which new Blank Documents are
based) has gotten formatted for columns. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm for instructions
for finding and editing Normal.dot.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"CZ9999" wrote in message
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I have MSO Word 2003 and cannot remove the newspaper column from new blank
Word documents. Does anyone know how to do that?
Thanks In Advance

What exactly are you seeing? When you enter text to your document is it
being formatted in newspaper columns - or are you just referring to lines
(or something else) showing on the screen? If you have renamed your
normal.dot you should have a 'really blank' document but you may still have
many view options set.

--
Enjoy,
Tony


"CZ9999" wrote in message
...
Hi Suzanne. Thanks for your response. I renamed the Normal.dot file to
Normal.dot.old and re-opened Word, but the blank document came back with
the
same 1 column lines.
sigh
Thanks again.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Somehow your Normal.dot (the template on which new Blank Documents are
based) has gotten formatted for columns. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm for
instructions
for finding and editing Normal.dot.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"CZ9999" wrote in message
...
I have MSO Word 2003 and cannot remove the newspaper column from new
blank
Word documents. Does anyone know how to do that?
Thanks In Advance

The idea of renaming normal.dot is so that Word will no longer use it. If
normal.dot isn't present (and here it seems there may be more than one copy
of normal.dot in play) then Word will create a factory fresh new one. Saving
a document as normal.dot does *not* create a normal.dot template. Only Word
can do that. You can however open normal.dot directly and edit it.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Bill M wrote:
I believe part of your problem is in the renaming. Granted, Suzanne
may be able to tell you for certain, but the file still has to end in
.dot to be a Word template file. I'm not sure if it would fail to
read past the .dot or just no longer consider it a template file.

Have you tried setting a blank page format the way you want it and
saving that as your normal.dot template file? When you select to
save a file as a template instead of the default Word document (.doc)
format, it automatically takes you to the directory where templates
are kept. That way, you don't have to wonder if the system did it
for you or not.

Hi Suzanne. Thanks for your response. I renamed the Normal.dot file
to Normal.dot.old and re-opened Word, but the blank document came
back with the same 1 column lines.
sigh
Thanks again.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Somehow your Normal.dot (the template on which new Blank Documents
are based) has gotten formatted for columns. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm for
instructions for finding and editing Normal.dot.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.

"CZ9999" wrote in message
...
I have MSO Word 2003 and cannot remove the newspaper column from
new blank Word documents. Does anyone know how to do that?
Thanks In Advance