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Conversion to Word 2003 from Word 2000
I recently got a new pc that is running Windows XP. Prior to this I was
running Office 2000 on a Windows 2000 pc. Does anyone know how I go about getting the styles and macros from my old NORMAL.DOT and other templates into Word 2003. It looks a little different! Thanks for the help!! Ken K. -- akkrug |
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See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/FilesToBackup.htm. You can copy
Normal.dot from your old computer and put in (under another name) on the new computer, then use the Organizer to move your styles and macros. -- 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. "akkrug" wrote in message ... I recently got a new pc that is running Windows XP. Prior to this I was running Office 2000 on a Windows 2000 pc. Does anyone know how I go about getting the styles and macros from my old NORMAL.DOT and other templates into Word 2003. It looks a little different! Thanks for the help!! Ken K. -- akkrug |
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Conversion to Word 2003 from Word 2000
There are several ways. If it were my PC, I would find the location of the
new normal.dot, rename it as newnormal.dot, and copy my old normal.dot to that location so that Word would use it. I've forgotten the details, but I seem to recall a mostly painless transition (although, I transitioned from 2K to XP to 2003, rather than in a single jump from 2K to 2003 directly). If that doesn't work for your purposes for some reason, you can use the Organizer to copy styles and macros to the new normal.dot. Choose Tools - Templates and Add-ins - Organizer. The right side shows your current (new) normal.dot. The left side shows the current document. In the left side, click Close File. It becomes Open File. Click it, navigate to your old normal.dot, and open it. Now you can use the Styles, Macro, etc. tabs to copy items from your old template to the new. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "akkrug" wrote in message ... I recently got a new pc that is running Windows XP. Prior to this I was running Office 2000 on a Windows 2000 pc. Does anyone know how I go about getting the styles and macros from my old NORMAL.DOT and other templates into Word 2003. It looks a little different! Thanks for the help!! Ken K. -- akkrug |
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Do I need to do anything special to use the NORMAL.DOT from my old pc other
than just changing the name of the file to NORMAL.TEM and copying it to the 3 folders where I found it on the new pc? I will definitely re-name the existing templates so they don't get overwritten just in case. Thanks again for the help! Ken K. -- akkrug "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: There are several ways. If it were my PC, I would find the location of the new normal.dot, rename it as newnormal.dot, and copy my old normal.dot to that location so that Word would use it. I've forgotten the details, but I seem to recall a mostly painless transition (although, I transitioned from 2K to XP to 2003, rather than in a single jump from 2K to 2003 directly). If that doesn't work for your purposes for some reason, you can use the Organizer to copy styles and macros to the new normal.dot. Choose Tools - Templates and Add-ins - Organizer. The right side shows your current (new) normal.dot. The left side shows the current document. In the left side, click Close File. It becomes Open File. Click it, navigate to your old normal.dot, and open it. Now you can use the Styles, Macro, etc. tabs to copy items from your old template to the new. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "akkrug" wrote in message ... I recently got a new pc that is running Windows XP. Prior to this I was running Office 2000 on a Windows 2000 pc. Does anyone know how I go about getting the styles and macros from my old NORMAL.DOT and other templates into Word 2003. It looks a little different! Thanks for the help!! Ken K. -- akkrug |
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When upgrading from Word X to Word X+n, Word is designed to use any existing
version of Normal.dot, and to convert (if necessary) whatever can be converted. I don't recall any 2000-2003 changes that should give Word 2003 any problems. So... I would make a backup copy of the Word 2000 Normal.dot (just in case), then feed it to Word 2003 and see if there are any problems. At the very worst, you can always delete the "converted" normal.dot and use the Organizer to copy styles, macros, etc. from the backup up version to Word 2003's pristine normal.dot. However, I would just give it a shot using the Word 2000 normal.dot in place of the new one that Word 2003 created. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "akkrug" wrote in message ... Do I need to do anything special to use the NORMAL.DOT from my old pc other than just changing the name of the file to NORMAL.TEM and copying it to the 3 folders where I found it on the new pc? I will definitely re-name the existing templates so they don't get overwritten just in case. Thanks again for the help! Ken K. -- akkrug "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: There are several ways. If it were my PC, I would find the location of the new normal.dot, rename it as newnormal.dot, and copy my old normal.dot to that location so that Word would use it. I've forgotten the details, but I seem to recall a mostly painless transition (although, I transitioned from 2K to XP to 2003, rather than in a single jump from 2K to 2003 directly). If that doesn't work for your purposes for some reason, you can use the Organizer to copy styles and macros to the new normal.dot. Choose Tools - Templates and Add-ins - Organizer. The right side shows your current (new) normal.dot. The left side shows the current document. In the left side, click Close File. It becomes Open File. Click it, navigate to your old normal.dot, and open it. Now you can use the Styles, Macro, etc. tabs to copy items from your old template to the new. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "akkrug" wrote in message ... I recently got a new pc that is running Windows XP. Prior to this I was running Office 2000 on a Windows 2000 pc. Does anyone know how I go about getting the styles and macros from my old NORMAL.DOT and other templates into Word 2003. It looks a little different! Thanks for the help!! Ken K. -- akkrug |
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Will I need to copy the converted Normal.tem to the 3 folders I found it in
when I searched for Normal*.* on my new pc? Thanks for the help with this!! Ken K. - 2191 -- akkrug "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: When upgrading from Word X to Word X+n, Word is designed to use any existing version of Normal.dot, and to convert (if necessary) whatever can be converted. I don't recall any 2000-2003 changes that should give Word 2003 any problems. So... I would make a backup copy of the Word 2000 Normal.dot (just in case), then feed it to Word 2003 and see if there are any problems. At the very worst, you can always delete the "converted" normal.dot and use the Organizer to copy styles, macros, etc. from the backup up version to Word 2003's pristine normal.dot. However, I would just give it a shot using the Word 2000 normal.dot in place of the new one that Word 2003 created. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "akkrug" wrote in message ... Do I need to do anything special to use the NORMAL.DOT from my old pc other than just changing the name of the file to NORMAL.TEM and copying it to the 3 folders where I found it on the new pc? I will definitely re-name the existing templates so they don't get overwritten just in case. Thanks again for the help! Ken K. -- akkrug "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: There are several ways. If it were my PC, I would find the location of the new normal.dot, rename it as newnormal.dot, and copy my old normal.dot to that location so that Word would use it. I've forgotten the details, but I seem to recall a mostly painless transition (although, I transitioned from 2K to XP to 2003, rather than in a single jump from 2K to 2003 directly). If that doesn't work for your purposes for some reason, you can use the Organizer to copy styles and macros to the new normal.dot. Choose Tools - Templates and Add-ins - Organizer. The right side shows your current (new) normal.dot. The left side shows the current document. In the left side, click Close File. It becomes Open File. Click it, navigate to your old normal.dot, and open it. Now you can use the Styles, Macro, etc. tabs to copy items from your old template to the new. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "akkrug" wrote in message ... I recently got a new pc that is running Windows XP. Prior to this I was running Office 2000 on a Windows 2000 pc. Does anyone know how I go about getting the styles and macros from my old NORMAL.DOT and other templates into Word 2003. It looks a little different! Thanks for the help!! Ken K. -- akkrug |
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You're looking for normal.dot... not normal.tem.
In Word, choose Tools - Options - File Locations, and note the User Templates location. That's the folder where Word looks for Normal.dot... and it should contain the version of Normal.dot with the most recent changes. So, that's the version most likely created afresh by Word 2003. If you find multiple copies of Normal.dot... where are they located? Note the file dates as well. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "akkrug" wrote in message ... Will I need to copy the converted Normal.tem to the 3 folders I found it in when I searched for Normal*.* on my new pc? Thanks for the help with this!! Ken K. - 2191 -- akkrug "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: When upgrading from Word X to Word X+n, Word is designed to use any existing version of Normal.dot, and to convert (if necessary) whatever can be converted. I don't recall any 2000-2003 changes that should give Word 2003 any problems. So... I would make a backup copy of the Word 2000 Normal.dot (just in case), then feed it to Word 2003 and see if there are any problems. At the very worst, you can always delete the "converted" normal.dot and use the Organizer to copy styles, macros, etc. from the backup up version to Word 2003's pristine normal.dot. However, I would just give it a shot using the Word 2000 normal.dot in place of the new one that Word 2003 created. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "akkrug" wrote in message ... Do I need to do anything special to use the NORMAL.DOT from my old pc other than just changing the name of the file to NORMAL.TEM and copying it to the 3 folders where I found it on the new pc? I will definitely re-name the existing templates so they don't get overwritten just in case. Thanks again for the help! Ken K. -- akkrug "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: There are several ways. If it were my PC, I would find the location of the new normal.dot, rename it as newnormal.dot, and copy my old normal.dot to that location so that Word would use it. I've forgotten the details, but I seem to recall a mostly painless transition (although, I transitioned from 2K to XP to 2003, rather than in a single jump from 2K to 2003 directly). If that doesn't work for your purposes for some reason, you can use the Organizer to copy styles and macros to the new normal.dot. Choose Tools - Templates and Add-ins - Organizer. The right side shows your current (new) normal.dot. The left side shows the current document. In the left side, click Close File. It becomes Open File. Click it, navigate to your old normal.dot, and open it. Now you can use the Styles, Macro, etc. tabs to copy items from your old template to the new. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "akkrug" wrote in message ... I recently got a new pc that is running Windows XP. Prior to this I was running Office 2000 on a Windows 2000 pc. Does anyone know how I go about getting the styles and macros from my old NORMAL.DOT and other templates into Word 2003. It looks a little different! Thanks for the help!! Ken K. -- akkrug |
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That's what had me stumped. I can't find Normal.dot anywhere on my new pc.
The only Normal*.* file I found was Normal.tem and it was located in the following directories: c:\program files\microsoft office\templates\1033\css c:\program files\microsoft office\templates\1033\pages c:\program files\microsoft office\templates\1033\webs Should I just try copying Normal.dot from my old pc (Word 2000) to the new pc with the dot extension or should I rename it to Normal.tem first? Thanks for the help!! Ken K. - 2191 -- akkrug "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: You're looking for normal.dot... not normal.tem. In Word, choose Tools - Options - File Locations, and note the User Templates location. That's the folder where Word looks for Normal.dot... and it should contain the version of Normal.dot with the most recent changes. So, that's the version most likely created afresh by Word 2003. If you find multiple copies of Normal.dot... where are they located? Note the file dates as well. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "akkrug" wrote in message ... Will I need to copy the converted Normal.tem to the 3 folders I found it in when I searched for Normal*.* on my new pc? Thanks for the help with this!! Ken K. - 2191 -- akkrug "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: When upgrading from Word X to Word X+n, Word is designed to use any existing version of Normal.dot, and to convert (if necessary) whatever can be converted. I don't recall any 2000-2003 changes that should give Word 2003 any problems. So... I would make a backup copy of the Word 2000 Normal.dot (just in case), then feed it to Word 2003 and see if there are any problems. At the very worst, you can always delete the "converted" normal.dot and use the Organizer to copy styles, macros, etc. from the backup up version to Word 2003's pristine normal.dot. However, I would just give it a shot using the Word 2000 normal.dot in place of the new one that Word 2003 created. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "akkrug" wrote in message ... Do I need to do anything special to use the NORMAL.DOT from my old pc other than just changing the name of the file to NORMAL.TEM and copying it to the 3 folders where I found it on the new pc? I will definitely re-name the existing templates so they don't get overwritten just in case. Thanks again for the help! Ken K. -- akkrug "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: There are several ways. If it were my PC, I would find the location of the new normal.dot, rename it as newnormal.dot, and copy my old normal.dot to that location so that Word would use it. I've forgotten the details, but I seem to recall a mostly painless transition (although, I transitioned from 2K to XP to 2003, rather than in a single jump from 2K to 2003 directly). If that doesn't work for your purposes for some reason, you can use the Organizer to copy styles and macros to the new normal.dot. Choose Tools - Templates and Add-ins - Organizer. The right side shows your current (new) normal.dot. The left side shows the current document. In the left side, click Close File. It becomes Open File. Click it, navigate to your old normal.dot, and open it. Now you can use the Styles, Macro, etc. tabs to copy items from your old template to the new. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "akkrug" wrote in message ... I recently got a new pc that is running Windows XP. Prior to this I was running Office 2000 on a Windows 2000 pc. Does anyone know how I go about getting the styles and macros from my old NORMAL.DOT and other templates into Word 2003. It looks a little different! Thanks for the help!! Ken K. -- akkrug |
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Normal.dot in Word 2003 is by default a hidden file in a hidden folder, the
location of which is defined to tools options file locations user templates. Ensure that your search includes hidden files. Don't under any circumstances rename files the identity of which you are uncertain of. The *only* file involved here is normal.dot. You can copy your old normal.dot from the Word 2000 PC to the user templates folder as described above to replace the existing normal.dot (though it would be better if you first renamed the original Word 2003 normal.dot to normal.old or whatever) -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org akkrug wrote: That's what had me stumped. I can't find Normal.dot anywhere on my new pc. The only Normal*.* file I found was Normal.tem and it was located in the following directories: c:\program files\microsoft office\templates\1033\css c:\program files\microsoft office\templates\1033\pages c:\program files\microsoft office\templates\1033\webs Should I just try copying Normal.dot from my old pc (Word 2000) to the new pc with the dot extension or should I rename it to Normal.tem first? Thanks for the help!! Ken K. - 2191 You're looking for normal.dot... not normal.tem. In Word, choose Tools - Options - File Locations, and note the User Templates location. That's the folder where Word looks for Normal.dot... and it should contain the version of Normal.dot with the most recent changes. So, that's the version most likely created afresh by Word 2003. If you find multiple copies of Normal.dot... where are they located? Note the file dates as well. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "akkrug" wrote in message ... Will I need to copy the converted Normal.tem to the 3 folders I found it in when I searched for Normal*.* on my new pc? Thanks for the help with this!! Ken K. - 2191 -- akkrug "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: When upgrading from Word X to Word X+n, Word is designed to use any existing version of Normal.dot, and to convert (if necessary) whatever can be converted. I don't recall any 2000-2003 changes that should give Word 2003 any problems. So... I would make a backup copy of the Word 2000 Normal.dot (just in case), then feed it to Word 2003 and see if there are any problems. At the very worst, you can always delete the "converted" normal.dot and use the Organizer to copy styles, macros, etc. from the backup up version to Word 2003's pristine normal.dot. However, I would just give it a shot using the Word 2000 normal.dot in place of the new one that Word 2003 created. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "akkrug" wrote in message ... Do I need to do anything special to use the NORMAL.DOT from my old pc other than just changing the name of the file to NORMAL.TEM and copying it to the 3 folders where I found it on the new pc? I will definitely re-name the existing templates so they don't get overwritten just in case. Thanks again for the help! Ken K. -- akkrug "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: There are several ways. If it were my PC, I would find the location of the new normal.dot, rename it as newnormal.dot, and copy my old normal.dot to that location so that Word would use it. I've forgotten the details, but I seem to recall a mostly painless transition (although, I transitioned from 2K to XP to 2003, rather than in a single jump from 2K to 2003 directly). If that doesn't work for your purposes for some reason, you can use the Organizer to copy styles and macros to the new normal.dot. Choose Tools - Templates and Add-ins - Organizer. The right side shows your current (new) normal.dot. The left side shows the current document. In the left side, click Close File. It becomes Open File. Click it, navigate to your old normal.dot, and open it. Now you can use the Styles, Macro, etc. tabs to copy items from your old template to the new. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "akkrug" wrote in message ... I recently got a new pc that is running Windows XP. Prior to this I was running Office 2000 on a Windows 2000 pc. Does anyone know how I go about getting the styles and macros from my old NORMAL.DOT and other templates into Word 2003. It looks a little different! Thanks for the help!! Ken K. -- akkrug |
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Thanks Everyone!!!!
-- akkrug "Graham Mayor" wrote: Normal.dot in Word 2003 is by default a hidden file in a hidden folder, the location of which is defined to tools options file locations user templates. Ensure that your search includes hidden files. Don't under any circumstances rename files the identity of which you are uncertain of. The *only* file involved here is normal.dot. You can copy your old normal.dot from the Word 2000 PC to the user templates folder as described above to replace the existing normal.dot (though it would be better if you first renamed the original Word 2003 normal.dot to normal.old or whatever) -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org akkrug wrote: That's what had me stumped. I can't find Normal.dot anywhere on my new pc. The only Normal*.* file I found was Normal.tem and it was located in the following directories: c:\program files\microsoft office\templates\1033\css c:\program files\microsoft office\templates\1033\pages c:\program files\microsoft office\templates\1033\webs Should I just try copying Normal.dot from my old pc (Word 2000) to the new pc with the dot extension or should I rename it to Normal.tem first? Thanks for the help!! Ken K. - 2191 You're looking for normal.dot... not normal.tem. In Word, choose Tools - Options - File Locations, and note the User Templates location. That's the folder where Word looks for Normal.dot... and it should contain the version of Normal.dot with the most recent changes. So, that's the version most likely created afresh by Word 2003. If you find multiple copies of Normal.dot... where are they located? Note the file dates as well. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "akkrug" wrote in message ... Will I need to copy the converted Normal.tem to the 3 folders I found it in when I searched for Normal*.* on my new pc? Thanks for the help with this!! Ken K. - 2191 -- akkrug "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: When upgrading from Word X to Word X+n, Word is designed to use any existing version of Normal.dot, and to convert (if necessary) whatever can be converted. I don't recall any 2000-2003 changes that should give Word 2003 any problems. So... I would make a backup copy of the Word 2000 Normal.dot (just in case), then feed it to Word 2003 and see if there are any problems. At the very worst, you can always delete the "converted" normal.dot and use the Organizer to copy styles, macros, etc. from the backup up version to Word 2003's pristine normal.dot. However, I would just give it a shot using the Word 2000 normal.dot in place of the new one that Word 2003 created. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "akkrug" wrote in message ... Do I need to do anything special to use the NORMAL.DOT from my old pc other than just changing the name of the file to NORMAL.TEM and copying it to the 3 folders where I found it on the new pc? I will definitely re-name the existing templates so they don't get overwritten just in case. Thanks again for the help! Ken K. -- akkrug "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: There are several ways. If it were my PC, I would find the location of the new normal.dot, rename it as newnormal.dot, and copy my old normal.dot to that location so that Word would use it. I've forgotten the details, but I seem to recall a mostly painless transition (although, I transitioned from 2K to XP to 2003, rather than in a single jump from 2K to 2003 directly). If that doesn't work for your purposes for some reason, you can use the Organizer to copy styles and macros to the new normal.dot. Choose Tools - Templates and Add-ins - Organizer. The right side shows your current (new) normal.dot. The left side shows the current document. In the left side, click Close File. It becomes Open File. Click it, navigate to your old normal.dot, and open it. Now you can use the Styles, Macro, etc. tabs to copy items from your old template to the new. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "akkrug" wrote in message ... I recently got a new pc that is running Windows XP. Prior to this I was running Office 2000 on a Windows 2000 pc. Does anyone know how I go about getting the styles and macros from my old NORMAL.DOT and other templates into Word 2003. It looks a little different! Thanks for the help!! Ken K. -- akkrug |
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Do the exclamation marks mean that you've achieved success?
-- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "akkrug" wrote in message ... Thanks Everyone!!!! -- akkrug "Graham Mayor" wrote: Normal.dot in Word 2003 is by default a hidden file in a hidden folder, the location of which is defined to tools options file locations user templates. Ensure that your search includes hidden files. Don't under any circumstances rename files the identity of which you are uncertain of. The *only* file involved here is normal.dot. You can copy your old normal.dot from the Word 2000 PC to the user templates folder as described above to replace the existing normal.dot (though it would be better if you first renamed the original Word 2003 normal.dot to normal.old or whatever) -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org akkrug wrote: That's what had me stumped. I can't find Normal.dot anywhere on my new pc. The only Normal*.* file I found was Normal.tem and it was located in the following directories: c:\program files\microsoft office\templates\1033\css c:\program files\microsoft office\templates\1033\pages c:\program files\microsoft office\templates\1033\webs Should I just try copying Normal.dot from my old pc (Word 2000) to the new pc with the dot extension or should I rename it to Normal.tem first? Thanks for the help!! Ken K. - 2191 You're looking for normal.dot... not normal.tem. In Word, choose Tools - Options - File Locations, and note the User Templates location. That's the folder where Word looks for Normal.dot... and it should contain the version of Normal.dot with the most recent changes. So, that's the version most likely created afresh by Word 2003. If you find multiple copies of Normal.dot... where are they located? Note the file dates as well. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "akkrug" wrote in message ... Will I need to copy the converted Normal.tem to the 3 folders I found it in when I searched for Normal*.* on my new pc? Thanks for the help with this!! Ken K. - 2191 -- akkrug "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: When upgrading from Word X to Word X+n, Word is designed to use any existing version of Normal.dot, and to convert (if necessary) whatever can be converted. I don't recall any 2000-2003 changes that should give Word 2003 any problems. So... I would make a backup copy of the Word 2000 Normal.dot (just in case), then feed it to Word 2003 and see if there are any problems. At the very worst, you can always delete the "converted" normal.dot and use the Organizer to copy styles, macros, etc. from the backup up version to Word 2003's pristine normal.dot. However, I would just give it a shot using the Word 2000 normal.dot in place of the new one that Word 2003 created. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "akkrug" wrote in message ... Do I need to do anything special to use the NORMAL.DOT from my old pc other than just changing the name of the file to NORMAL.TEM and copying it to the 3 folders where I found it on the new pc? I will definitely re-name the existing templates so they don't get overwritten just in case. Thanks again for the help! Ken K. -- akkrug "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: There are several ways. If it were my PC, I would find the location of the new normal.dot, rename it as newnormal.dot, and copy my old normal.dot to that location so that Word would use it. I've forgotten the details, but I seem to recall a mostly painless transition (although, I transitioned from 2K to XP to 2003, rather than in a single jump from 2K to 2003 directly). If that doesn't work for your purposes for some reason, you can use the Organizer to copy styles and macros to the new normal.dot. Choose Tools - Templates and Add-ins - Organizer. The right side shows your current (new) normal.dot. The left side shows the current document. In the left side, click Close File. It becomes Open File. Click it, navigate to your old normal.dot, and open it. Now you can use the Styles, Macro, etc. tabs to copy items from your old template to the new. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "akkrug" wrote in message ... I recently got a new pc that is running Windows XP. Prior to this I was running Office 2000 on a Windows 2000 pc. Does anyone know how I go about getting the styles and macros from my old NORMAL.DOT and other templates into Word 2003. It looks a little different! Thanks for the help!! Ken K. -- akkrug |
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Conversion to Word 2003 from Word 2000
I'm cautiously optimistic thanks to the Microsoft MVP's!
Thanks again and everyone have a great day!! Ken K. - 2191 -- akkrug "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: Do the exclamation marks mean that you've achieved success? -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "akkrug" wrote in message ... Thanks Everyone!!!! -- akkrug "Graham Mayor" wrote: Normal.dot in Word 2003 is by default a hidden file in a hidden folder, the location of which is defined to tools options file locations user templates. Ensure that your search includes hidden files. Don't under any circumstances rename files the identity of which you are uncertain of. The *only* file involved here is normal.dot. You can copy your old normal.dot from the Word 2000 PC to the user templates folder as described above to replace the existing normal.dot (though it would be better if you first renamed the original Word 2003 normal.dot to normal.old or whatever) -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org akkrug wrote: That's what had me stumped. I can't find Normal.dot anywhere on my new pc. The only Normal*.* file I found was Normal.tem and it was located in the following directories: c:\program files\microsoft office\templates\1033\css c:\program files\microsoft office\templates\1033\pages c:\program files\microsoft office\templates\1033\webs Should I just try copying Normal.dot from my old pc (Word 2000) to the new pc with the dot extension or should I rename it to Normal.tem first? Thanks for the help!! Ken K. - 2191 You're looking for normal.dot... not normal.tem. In Word, choose Tools - Options - File Locations, and note the User Templates location. That's the folder where Word looks for Normal.dot... and it should contain the version of Normal.dot with the most recent changes. So, that's the version most likely created afresh by Word 2003. If you find multiple copies of Normal.dot... where are they located? Note the file dates as well. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "akkrug" wrote in message ... Will I need to copy the converted Normal.tem to the 3 folders I found it in when I searched for Normal*.* on my new pc? Thanks for the help with this!! Ken K. - 2191 -- akkrug "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: When upgrading from Word X to Word X+n, Word is designed to use any existing version of Normal.dot, and to convert (if necessary) whatever can be converted. I don't recall any 2000-2003 changes that should give Word 2003 any problems. So... I would make a backup copy of the Word 2000 Normal.dot (just in case), then feed it to Word 2003 and see if there are any problems. At the very worst, you can always delete the "converted" normal.dot and use the Organizer to copy styles, macros, etc. from the backup up version to Word 2003's pristine normal.dot. However, I would just give it a shot using the Word 2000 normal.dot in place of the new one that Word 2003 created. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "akkrug" wrote in message ... Do I need to do anything special to use the NORMAL.DOT from my old pc other than just changing the name of the file to NORMAL.TEM and copying it to the 3 folders where I found it on the new pc? I will definitely re-name the existing templates so they don't get overwritten just in case. Thanks again for the help! Ken K. -- akkrug "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote: There are several ways. If it were my PC, I would find the location of the new normal.dot, rename it as newnormal.dot, and copy my old normal.dot to that location so that Word would use it. I've forgotten the details, but I seem to recall a mostly painless transition (although, I transitioned from 2K to XP to 2003, rather than in a single jump from 2K to 2003 directly). If that doesn't work for your purposes for some reason, you can use the Organizer to copy styles and macros to the new normal.dot. Choose Tools - Templates and Add-ins - Organizer. The right side shows your current (new) normal.dot. The left side shows the current document. In the left side, click Close File. It becomes Open File. Click it, navigate to your old normal.dot, and open it. Now you can use the Styles, Macro, etc. tabs to copy items from your old template to the new. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "akkrug" wrote in message ... I recently got a new pc that is running Windows XP. Prior to this I was running Office 2000 on a Windows 2000 pc. Does anyone know how I go about getting the styles and macros from my old NORMAL.DOT and other templates into Word 2003. It looks a little different! Thanks for the help!! Ken K. -- akkrug |
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