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how to get a blank document instead of my last letter displayed
When I do FileNew right away I get my last letter which I closed and saved
properly when I finished it. Even if I press NewBlank Document I get that self same letter, as well as New from templateNormal - like - get it out already! I need a blank page!!!! |
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See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm .
Ronnieeee wrote: When I do FileNew right away I get my last letter which I closed and saved properly when I finished it. Even if I press NewBlank Document I get that self same letter, as well as New from templateNormal - like - get it out already! I need a blank page!!!! |
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Thks but doesn't work, my XP at least doesn't have "show hidden files and
folders" and I was unable to do on my window 2002 whatever was instructed. Condlusion? Disappointing and misleading trail. RonnieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeHelp!!!!!!!!!!! "garfield-n-odie" wrote: See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm . Ronnieeee wrote: When I do FileNew right away I get my last letter which I closed and saved properly when I finished it. Even if I press NewBlank Document I get that self same letter, as well as New from templateNormal - like - get it out already! I need a blank page!!!! |
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Where are you looking for the command? If you open an Explorer window in
Windows (you may know this as My Computer) and choose Tools | Folder Options, you should see this radio button in the first screen on the View tab. I'm quoting this from Windows 2000, but I can't imagine it is that different in Windows XP. -- 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. "Ronnieee" wrote in message ... Thks but doesn't work, my XP at least doesn't have "show hidden files and folders" and I was unable to do on my window 2002 whatever was instructed. Condlusion? Disappointing and misleading trail. RonnieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeHelp!!!!!!!!!!! "garfield-n-odie" wrote: See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm . Ronnieeee wrote: When I do FileNew right away I get my last letter which I closed and saved properly when I finished it. Even if I press NewBlank Document I get that self same letter, as well as New from templateNormal - like - get it out already! I need a blank page!!!! |
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Quick & Dirty!!!
Get a new file & delete everything in it. Then save the file as Normal.dot in the template folder John "Ronnieeee" wrote in message ... When I do FileNew right away I get my last letter which I closed and saved properly when I finished it. Even if I press NewBlank Document I get that self same letter, as well as New from templateNormal - like - get it out already! I need a blank page!!!! |
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Hi John
It might be worthwhile considering what happens if a user tries this. I can get a new, blank document, choose File Save and select the appropriate templates folder. If I then tell Word to save my file as "normal.dot", Word (a) saves it as a Word document (because the "Save as type" box is still set to "Word document") and (b) names the file "normal.dot.doc". The resulting file is a document, not a template, and won't function as normal.dot is supposed to function. So that won't solve the original user's problem of having text stored in normal.dot. Alternatiavely, I can get a blank document, choose File Save, select the templates folder, tell Word to save the file as a template, and tell Word to save the file as "normal.dot". I then get an error message saying "Word cannot give a document the same name as an open document". So that won't work for me. As a third possibility, I could do File New and tell Word to create a new template and try to name it normal.dot. But when I try that, I get the same error message as before, because Word is, of course, already using normal.dot. So that doesn't work for me either. Finally, even if I could easily create a new, blank document and save it named "normal.dot", it would not function as a 'real' normal.dot. It would not, for example, have the default autotext entries that enable me to do things like add page numbers to headers and footers easily. The conclusions from this are that there are two key points about normal.dot. First, only Word can create a normal.dot. Second, there are only two ways to edit normal.dot. In Word, use File Open. Or in Windows Explorer, right-click and choose Open. Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "JR" onejmATcomcast.net wrote in message ... Quick & Dirty!!! Get a new file & delete everything in it. Then save the file as Normal.dot in the template folder John "Ronnieeee" wrote in message ... When I do FileNew right away I get my last letter which I closed and saved properly when I finished it. Even if I press NewBlank Document I get that self same letter, as well as New from templateNormal - like - get it out already! I need a blank page!!!! |
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It's the same in Windows XP, regardless of whether you get to
Tools-FolderOptions through My Computer or through Windows Explorer. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Where are you looking for the command? If you open an Explorer window in Windows (you may know this as My Computer) and choose Tools | Folder Options, you should see this radio button in the first screen on the View tab. I'm quoting this from Windows 2000, but I can't imagine it is that different in Windows XP. |
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You are the posterchild for the adage, "You can lead a jackass to
water, but you can't make it drink." Ronnieee wrote: Thks but doesn't work, my XP at least doesn't have "show hidden files and folders" and I was unable to do on my window 2002 whatever was instructed. Condlusion? Disappointing and misleading trail. RonnieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeHelp!!!!!!!!!!! "garfield-n-odie" wrote: See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm . Ronnieeee wrote: When I do FileNew right away I get my last letter which I closed and saved properly when I finished it. Even if I press NewBlank Document I get that self same letter, as well as New from templateNormal - like - get it out already! I need a blank page!!!! |
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TY, I stand corrected. Its not as simple as I thought
John "Shauna Kelly" wrote in message ... Hi John It might be worthwhile considering what happens if a user tries this. I can get a new, blank document, choose File Save and select the appropriate templates folder. If I then tell Word to save my file as "normal.dot", Word (a) saves it as a Word document (because the "Save as type" box is still set to "Word document") and (b) names the file "normal.dot.doc". The resulting file is a document, not a template, and won't function as normal.dot is supposed to function. So that won't solve the original user's problem of having text stored in normal.dot. Alternatiavely, I can get a blank document, choose File Save, select the templates folder, tell Word to save the file as a template, and tell Word to save the file as "normal.dot". I then get an error message saying "Word cannot give a document the same name as an open document". So that won't work for me. As a third possibility, I could do File New and tell Word to create a new template and try to name it normal.dot. But when I try that, I get the same error message as before, because Word is, of course, already using normal.dot. So that doesn't work for me either. Finally, even if I could easily create a new, blank document and save it named "normal.dot", it would not function as a 'real' normal.dot. It would not, for example, have the default autotext entries that enable me to do things like add page numbers to headers and footers easily. The conclusions from this are that there are two key points about normal.dot. First, only Word can create a normal.dot. Second, there are only two ways to edit normal.dot. In Word, use File Open. Or in Windows Explorer, right-click and choose Open. Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "JR" onejmATcomcast.net wrote in message ... Quick & Dirty!!! Get a new file & delete everything in it. Then save the file as Normal.dot in the template folder John "Ronnieeee" wrote in message ... When I do FileNew right away I get my last letter which I closed and saved properly when I finished it. Even if I press NewBlank Document I get that self same letter, as well as New from templateNormal - like - get it out already! I need a blank page!!!! |
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