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Templates in normal.dot
Hi all,
I posted this alraedy in the NG "Templates" but then discovered that there are virtually no answers to be expected - so I post it here again... I'm using Word 2000 SP3 on XPH and have a problem with File/New... This opens a dialog with 5 tabs, the first of it called "General" (retranslated from German). This tab contains 6 icons, 4 of them pertain to templates generated by myself and no issue here. But the tab contains 2 more icons called "Empty document" and "Webpage" (without the extension "dot") I'm concerned with here. Doubleclicking on either of them opens a long text I have written myself some time ago and this is rather annoying. As this templates and content seem to be part of normal.dot, they don't show up in my templates folder where I could delete them. If I rightclick and select "delete", then I'm asked whether I really want to send normal.dot to the recycle bin, what I certainly don't want to and therefore cancel (normal.dot is 115KB big). If I open the offending "Empty document", remove the text, then "save as..." and reassign "Empty document" "as template", I just get a new "Empty document.dot" with the extension, while the old one without extention persists. Furthermore, if I open one of my own templates, these open the expected pages without unwanted content. But when later I want to "save as...", the beginning of this same text mentionned before appears as suggested file name in the save as dialog, while not part of the new document at all. I find no way to get rid of this (rather annoying) text and hope you can help me. TIA - flowe |
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Templates in normal.dot
http://www.gmayor.com/Template_Locations.htm may help understand what is
going on. If when you open Word the default template - normal.dot - has text then see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm . However from your description it seems that you have created an 'empty document.dot' template. This has nothing to do with Word and cannot be used as the default template. Rename it to 'empty template.old' and see how you get on without it. Check the template folders to ensure that you really only have one normal.dot template and that one is in the folder defined at tools options file locations user templates. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org flowe wrote: Hi all, I posted this alraedy in the NG "Templates" but then discovered that there are virtually no answers to be expected - so I post it here again... I'm using Word 2000 SP3 on XPH and have a problem with File/New... This opens a dialog with 5 tabs, the first of it called "General" (retranslated from German). This tab contains 6 icons, 4 of them pertain to templates generated by myself and no issue here. But the tab contains 2 more icons called "Empty document" and "Webpage" (without the extension "dot") I'm concerned with here. Doubleclicking on either of them opens a long text I have written myself some time ago and this is rather annoying. As this templates and content seem to be part of normal.dot, they don't show up in my templates folder where I could delete them. If I rightclick and select "delete", then I'm asked whether I really want to send normal.dot to the recycle bin, what I certainly don't want to and therefore cancel (normal.dot is 115KB big). If I open the offending "Empty document", remove the text, then "save as..." and reassign "Empty document" "as template", I just get a new "Empty document.dot" with the extension, while the old one without extention persists. Furthermore, if I open one of my own templates, these open the expected pages without unwanted content. But when later I want to "save as...", the beginning of this same text mentionned before appears as suggested file name in the save as dialog, while not part of the new document at all. I find no way to get rid of this (rather annoying) text and hope you can help me. TIA - flowe |
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Templates in normal.dot
"Graham Mayor" wrote:
... If when you open Word the default template - normal.dot - has text then see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm . ... Graham Very many thanks - problem solved in a few minutes with your kind help! I'm very glad! Thanks to John McGhie too! flowe |
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