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Those weird and wacky MS Word messages
Word 97 which I've been using since 1998. I saved an unsaved document, and got this message, which I've never seen befo "Do you also want to save changes to the Document Template?" How is it that, having saved documents a couple of million times before in Word 97, I never got this message until now? And what the heck does it mean? Just wondering |
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Tools--Options, Save tab. If Prompt to save Normal template is checked.
Most likely, it wasn't checked before. ******************* ~Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com www.MyExpertsOnline.com "Larry" wrote in message ... Word 97 which I've been using since 1998. I saved an unsaved document, and got this message, which I've never seen befo "Do you also want to save changes to the Document Template?" How is it that, having saved documents a couple of million times before in Word 97, I never got this message until now? And what the heck does it mean? Just wondering |
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Just a bit more background:
The reason the prompt is available is that silently changing things in the Normal.dot template is a favorite trick of macro viruses. You should leave the option turned on at all times. If you get the prompt and you don't know what changed, you should answer No and the changes won't be saved. There are a few problems with that scenario. For one thing, many users have no idea what Normal.dot is, let alone what they might have done during an editing session to change it. (Some examples a adding or modifying a style and checking the "Add to template" box in the dialog; making a new AutoCorrect or AutoText entry; creating or modifying a toolbar button or a keyboard shortcut; or changing a font setting in the Format Font dialog and clicking the Default button.) Even if you're aware of the things that can change the template, you may not remember everything you did during a long session. Finally -- thankfully! -- the #$% hackers and script kiddies seem to have found that it's easier or more satisfyingly destructive to make "regular" viruses rather than macro viruses, so there are fewer macro attacks than there used to be. Also, the major antivirus apps are pretty good at spotting infected documents and quarantining them before they can even be opened. One other thing: if the document is based on a template other than Normal.dot and you did something that changed that template (for example, adding a custom toolbar), you'll be prompted to save the template regardless of the setting of the option for Normal.dot. It's just the same as the prompt you get if you edit a document and then click Close without saving. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 10:48:42 -0400, "Anne Troy" wrote: Tools--Options, Save tab. If Prompt to save Normal template is checked. Most likely, it wasn't checked before. ******************* ~Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com www.MyExpertsOnline.com "Larry" wrote in message ... Word 97 which I've been using since 1998. I saved an unsaved document, and got this message, which I've never seen befo "Do you also want to save changes to the Document Template?" How is it that, having saved documents a couple of million times before in Word 97, I never got this message until now? And what the heck does it mean? Just wondering |
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Lets say Normal.dot has a lot of changes from the original. How can one get
the Normal.dot back from it's original default setting when Word was first installed? Using Word 2002(XP)... Mark "Jay Freedman" wrote in message news Just a bit more background: The reason the prompt is available is that silently changing things in the Normal.dot template is a favorite trick of macro viruses. You should leave the option turned on at all times. If you get the prompt and you don't know what changed, you should answer No and the changes won't be saved. There are a few problems with that scenario. For one thing, many users have no idea what Normal.dot is, let alone what they might have done during an editing session to change it. (Some examples a adding or modifying a style and checking the "Add to template" box in the dialog; making a new AutoCorrect or AutoText entry; creating or modifying a toolbar button or a keyboard shortcut; or changing a font setting in the Format Font dialog and clicking the Default button.) Even if you're aware of the things that can change the template, you may not remember everything you did during a long session. Finally -- thankfully! -- the #$% hackers and script kiddies seem to have found that it's easier or more satisfyingly destructive to make "regular" viruses rather than macro viruses, so there are fewer macro attacks than there used to be. Also, the major antivirus apps are pretty good at spotting infected documents and quarantining them before they can even be opened. One other thing: if the document is based on a template other than Normal.dot and you did something that changed that template (for example, adding a custom toolbar), you'll be prompted to save the template regardless of the setting of the option for Normal.dot. It's just the same as the prompt you get if you edit a document and then click Close without saving. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 10:48:42 -0400, "Anne Troy" wrote: Tools--Options, Save tab. If Prompt to save Normal template is checked. Most likely, it wasn't checked before. ******************* ~Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com www.MyExpertsOnline.com "Larry" wrote in message .. . Word 97 which I've been using since 1998. I saved an unsaved document, and got this message, which I've never seen befo "Do you also want to save changes to the Document Template?" How is it that, having saved documents a couple of million times before in Word 97, I never got this message until now? And what the heck does it mean? Just wondering |
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Are you saying you want to return Normal.dot to its out-of-the-box default
condition? Easy. Just rename it and let Word create a new one. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm -- 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. "MarkC" wrote in message ... Lets say Normal.dot has a lot of changes from the original. How can one get the Normal.dot back from it's original default setting when Word was first installed? Using Word 2002(XP)... Mark "Jay Freedman" wrote in message news Just a bit more background: The reason the prompt is available is that silently changing things in the Normal.dot template is a favorite trick of macro viruses. You should leave the option turned on at all times. If you get the prompt and you don't know what changed, you should answer No and the changes won't be saved. There are a few problems with that scenario. For one thing, many users have no idea what Normal.dot is, let alone what they might have done during an editing session to change it. (Some examples a adding or modifying a style and checking the "Add to template" box in the dialog; making a new AutoCorrect or AutoText entry; creating or modifying a toolbar button or a keyboard shortcut; or changing a font setting in the Format Font dialog and clicking the Default button.) Even if you're aware of the things that can change the template, you may not remember everything you did during a long session. Finally -- thankfully! -- the #$% hackers and script kiddies seem to have found that it's easier or more satisfyingly destructive to make "regular" viruses rather than macro viruses, so there are fewer macro attacks than there used to be. Also, the major antivirus apps are pretty good at spotting infected documents and quarantining them before they can even be opened. One other thing: if the document is based on a template other than Normal.dot and you did something that changed that template (for example, adding a custom toolbar), you'll be prompted to save the template regardless of the setting of the option for Normal.dot. It's just the same as the prompt you get if you edit a document and then click Close without saving. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 10:48:42 -0400, "Anne Troy" wrote: Tools--Options, Save tab. If Prompt to save Normal template is checked. Most likely, it wasn't checked before. ******************* ~Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com www.MyExpertsOnline.com "Larry" wrote in message .. . Word 97 which I've been using since 1998. I saved an unsaved document, and got this message, which I've never seen befo "Do you also want to save changes to the Document Template?" How is it that, having saved documents a couple of million times before in Word 97, I never got this message until now? And what the heck does it mean? Just wondering |
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Thanks!
MC "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Are you saying you want to return Normal.dot to its out-of-the-box default condition? Easy. Just rename it and let Word create a new one. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm -- 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. "MarkC" wrote in message ... Lets say Normal.dot has a lot of changes from the original. How can one get the Normal.dot back from it's original default setting when Word was first installed? Using Word 2002(XP)... Mark "Jay Freedman" wrote in message news Just a bit more background: The reason the prompt is available is that silently changing things in the Normal.dot template is a favorite trick of macro viruses. You should leave the option turned on at all times. If you get the prompt and you don't know what changed, you should answer No and the changes won't be saved. There are a few problems with that scenario. For one thing, many users have no idea what Normal.dot is, let alone what they might have done during an editing session to change it. (Some examples a adding or modifying a style and checking the "Add to template" box in the dialog; making a new AutoCorrect or AutoText entry; creating or modifying a toolbar button or a keyboard shortcut; or changing a font setting in the Format Font dialog and clicking the Default button.) Even if you're aware of the things that can change the template, you may not remember everything you did during a long session. Finally -- thankfully! -- the #$% hackers and script kiddies seem to have found that it's easier or more satisfyingly destructive to make "regular" viruses rather than macro viruses, so there are fewer macro attacks than there used to be. Also, the major antivirus apps are pretty good at spotting infected documents and quarantining them before they can even be opened. One other thing: if the document is based on a template other than Normal.dot and you did something that changed that template (for example, adding a custom toolbar), you'll be prompted to save the template regardless of the setting of the option for Normal.dot. It's just the same as the prompt you get if you edit a document and then click Close without saving. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 10:48:42 -0400, "Anne Troy" wrote: Tools--Options, Save tab. If Prompt to save Normal template is checked. Most likely, it wasn't checked before. ******************* ~Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com www.MyExpertsOnline.com "Larry" wrote in message .. . Word 97 which I've been using since 1998. I saved an unsaved document, and got this message, which I've never seen befo "Do you also want to save changes to the Document Template?" How is it that, having saved documents a couple of million times before in Word 97, I never got this message until now? And what the heck does it mean? Just wondering |
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Anne and Jay, Sometimes I have the "prompt to save Normal" feature on, most of the time not, but even if it's on that doesn't answer my question. I was not closing Word, I was saving a document. Why should there be any prompt regarding the saving of changes in the Normal template when I was simply saving a document? Moreover, the same thing just happened again now. I was saving an unsaved document, and got the same prompt, "Do you _also_ want to save changes to the Document Template?" (Note that "also.") Further, the "Prompt to save Normal template" feature is NOT checked right now. Yet I got this weird prompt. What does saving a document have to do with saving changes in Normal. It makes no sense. Larry "Jay Freedman" wrote in message news Just a bit more background: The reason the prompt is available is that silently changing things in the Normal.dot template is a favorite trick of macro viruses. You should leave the option turned on at all times. If you get the prompt and you don't know what changed, you should answer No and the changes won't be saved. There are a few problems with that scenario. For one thing, many users have no idea what Normal.dot is, let alone what they might have done during an editing session to change it. (Some examples a adding or modifying a style and checking the "Add to template" box in the dialog; making a new AutoCorrect or AutoText entry; creating or modifying a toolbar button or a keyboard shortcut; or changing a font setting in the Format Font dialog and clicking the Default button.) Even if you're aware of the things that can change the template, you may not remember everything you did during a long session. Finally -- thankfully! -- the #$% hackers and script kiddies seem to have found that it's easier or more satisfyingly destructive to make "regular" viruses rather than macro viruses, so there are fewer macro attacks than there used to be. Also, the major antivirus apps are pretty good at spotting infected documents and quarantining them before they can even be opened. One other thing: if the document is based on a template other than Normal.dot and you did something that changed that template (for example, adding a custom toolbar), you'll be prompted to save the template regardless of the setting of the option for Normal.dot. It's just the same as the prompt you get if you edit a document and then click Close without saving. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 10:48:42 -0400, "Anne Troy" wrote: Tools--Options, Save tab. If Prompt to save Normal template is checked. Most likely, it wasn't checked before. ******************* ~Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com www.MyExpertsOnline.com "Larry" wrote in message ... Word 97 which I've been using since 1998. I saved an unsaved document, and got this message, which I've never seen befo "Do you also want to save changes to the Document Template?" How is it that, having saved documents a couple of million times before in Word 97, I never got this message until now? And what the heck does it mean? Just wondering |
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Hi Larry,
Something we haven't nailed down yet: When you're working on the document where this happens, is the document based on Normal.dot or on some other template? The reason I ask is that if it's Normal.dot that changed, you should be seeing a message with different wording: "Changes have been made that affect the global template, Normal. Do you want to save those changes?" You can see this illustrated at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...514521033.aspx. The message you quoted is the one you get when the base of the document is some *other* template, in which you've made some change such as a modified style or a new autotext. The "prompt to save Normal.dot" option has no effect on this message. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:37:01 -0400, "Larry" wrote: Anne and Jay, Sometimes I have the "prompt to save Normal" feature on, most of the time not, but even if it's on that doesn't answer my question. I was not closing Word, I was saving a document. Why should there be any prompt regarding the saving of changes in the Normal template when I was simply saving a document? Moreover, the same thing just happened again now. I was saving an unsaved document, and got the same prompt, "Do you _also_ want to save changes to the Document Template?" (Note that "also.") Further, the "Prompt to save Normal template" feature is NOT checked right now. Yet I got this weird prompt. What does saving a document have to do with saving changes in Normal. It makes no sense. Larry "Jay Freedman" wrote in message news Just a bit more background: The reason the prompt is available is that silently changing things in the Normal.dot template is a favorite trick of macro viruses. You should leave the option turned on at all times. If you get the prompt and you don't know what changed, you should answer No and the changes won't be saved. There are a few problems with that scenario. For one thing, many users have no idea what Normal.dot is, let alone what they might have done during an editing session to change it. (Some examples a adding or modifying a style and checking the "Add to template" box in the dialog; making a new AutoCorrect or AutoText entry; creating or modifying a toolbar button or a keyboard shortcut; or changing a font setting in the Format Font dialog and clicking the Default button.) Even if you're aware of the things that can change the template, you may not remember everything you did during a long session. Finally -- thankfully! -- the #$% hackers and script kiddies seem to have found that it's easier or more satisfyingly destructive to make "regular" viruses rather than macro viruses, so there are fewer macro attacks than there used to be. Also, the major antivirus apps are pretty good at spotting infected documents and quarantining them before they can even be opened. One other thing: if the document is based on a template other than Normal.dot and you did something that changed that template (for example, adding a custom toolbar), you'll be prompted to save the template regardless of the setting of the option for Normal.dot. It's just the same as the prompt you get if you edit a document and then click Close without saving. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 10:48:42 -0400, "Anne Troy" wrote: Tools--Options, Save tab. If Prompt to save Normal template is checked. Most likely, it wasn't checked before. ******************* ~Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com www.MyExpertsOnline.com "Larry" wrote in message ... Word 97 which I've been using since 1998. I saved an unsaved document, and got this message, which I've never seen befo "Do you also want to save changes to the Document Template?" How is it that, having saved documents a couple of million times before in Word 97, I never got this message until now? And what the heck does it mean? Just wondering |
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Jay, if this happens again I'll check and see if the document is
attached to a template other than Normal. I don't think it was, but I could be wrong. However, even if it was, it still wouldn't make sense. Again, I was not closing the document, I was only saving it, so there was no reason for a prompt to save changes in the document template. Larry Jay Freedman wrote: Hi Larry, Something we haven't nailed down yet: When you're working on the document where this happens, is the document based on Normal.dot or on some other template? The reason I ask is that if it's Normal.dot that changed, you should be seeing a message with different wording: "Changes have been made that affect the global template, Normal. Do you want to save those changes?" You can see this illustrated at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...514521033.aspx. The message you quoted is the one you get when the base of the document is some *other* template, in which you've made some change such as a modified style or a new autotext. The "prompt to save Normal.dot" option has no effect on this message. Anne and Jay, Sometimes I have the "prompt to save Normal" feature on, most of the time not, but even if it's on that doesn't answer my question. I was not closing Word, I was saving a document. Why should there be any prompt regarding the saving of changes in the Normal template when I was simply saving a document? Moreover, the same thing just happened again now. I was saving an unsaved document, and got the same prompt, "Do you _also_ want to save changes to the Document Template?" (Note that "also.") Further, the "Prompt to save Normal template" feature is NOT checked right now. Yet I got this weird prompt. What does saving a document have to do with saving changes in Normal. It makes no sense. Larry "Jay Freedman" wrote in message news Just a bit more background: The reason the prompt is available is that silently changing things in the Normal.dot template is a favorite trick of macro viruses. You should leave the option turned on at all times. If you get the prompt and you don't know what changed, you should answer No and the changes won't be saved. There are a few problems with that scenario. For one thing, many users have no idea what Normal.dot is, let alone what they might have done during an editing session to change it. (Some examples a adding or modifying a style and checking the "Add to template" box in the dialog; making a new AutoCorrect or AutoText entry; creating or modifying a toolbar button or a keyboard shortcut; or changing a font setting in the Format Font dialog and clicking the Default button.) Even if you're aware of the things that can change the template, you may not remember everything you did during a long session. Finally -- thankfully! -- the #$% hackers and script kiddies seem to have found that it's easier or more satisfyingly destructive to make "regular" viruses rather than macro viruses, so there are fewer macro attacks than there used to be. Also, the major antivirus apps are pretty good at spotting infected documents and quarantining them before they can even be opened. One other thing: if the document is based on a template other than Normal.dot and you did something that changed that template (for example, adding a custom toolbar), you'll be prompted to save the template regardless of the setting of the option for Normal.dot. It's just the same as the prompt you get if you edit a document and then click Close without saving. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 10:48:42 -0400, "Anne Troy" wrote: Tools--Options, Save tab. If Prompt to save Normal template is checked. Most likely, it wasn't checked before. ******************* ~Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com www.MyExpertsOnline.com "Larry" wrote in message ... Word 97 which I've been using since 1998. I saved an unsaved document, and got this message, which I've never seen befo "Do you also want to save changes to the Document Template?" How is it that, having saved documents a couple of million times before in Word 97, I never got this message until now? And what the heck does it mean? Just wondering |
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When you save a document, you will get that prompt if you have made changes
to the template since the previous save (for example, by modifying a style and checking the "Add to template" box). -- 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. "Larry" wrote in message ... Jay, if this happens again I'll check and see if the document is attached to a template other than Normal. I don't think it was, but I could be wrong. However, even if it was, it still wouldn't make sense. Again, I was not closing the document, I was only saving it, so there was no reason for a prompt to save changes in the document template. Larry Jay Freedman wrote: Hi Larry, Something we haven't nailed down yet: When you're working on the document where this happens, is the document based on Normal.dot or on some other template? The reason I ask is that if it's Normal.dot that changed, you should be seeing a message with different wording: "Changes have been made that affect the global template, Normal. Do you want to save those changes?" You can see this illustrated at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...514521033.aspx. The message you quoted is the one you get when the base of the document is some *other* template, in which you've made some change such as a modified style or a new autotext. The "prompt to save Normal.dot" option has no effect on this message. Anne and Jay, Sometimes I have the "prompt to save Normal" feature on, most of the time not, but even if it's on that doesn't answer my question. I was not closing Word, I was saving a document. Why should there be any prompt regarding the saving of changes in the Normal template when I was simply saving a document? Moreover, the same thing just happened again now. I was saving an unsaved document, and got the same prompt, "Do you _also_ want to save changes to the Document Template?" (Note that "also.") Further, the "Prompt to save Normal template" feature is NOT checked right now. Yet I got this weird prompt. What does saving a document have to do with saving changes in Normal. It makes no sense. Larry "Jay Freedman" wrote in message news Just a bit more background: The reason the prompt is available is that silently changing things in the Normal.dot template is a favorite trick of macro viruses. You should leave the option turned on at all times. If you get the prompt and you don't know what changed, you should answer No and the changes won't be saved. There are a few problems with that scenario. For one thing, many users have no idea what Normal.dot is, let alone what they might have done during an editing session to change it. (Some examples a adding or modifying a style and checking the "Add to template" box in the dialog; making a new AutoCorrect or AutoText entry; creating or modifying a toolbar button or a keyboard shortcut; or changing a font setting in the Format Font dialog and clicking the Default button.) Even if you're aware of the things that can change the template, you may not remember everything you did during a long session. Finally -- thankfully! -- the #$% hackers and script kiddies seem to have found that it's easier or more satisfyingly destructive to make "regular" viruses rather than macro viruses, so there are fewer macro attacks than there used to be. Also, the major antivirus apps are pretty good at spotting infected documents and quarantining them before they can even be opened. One other thing: if the document is based on a template other than Normal.dot and you did something that changed that template (for example, adding a custom toolbar), you'll be prompted to save the template regardless of the setting of the option for Normal.dot. It's just the same as the prompt you get if you edit a document and then click Close without saving. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 10:48:42 -0400, "Anne Troy" wrote: Tools--Options, Save tab. If Prompt to save Normal template is checked. Most likely, it wasn't checked before. ******************* ~Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com www.MyExpertsOnline.com "Larry" wrote in message ... Word 97 which I've been using since 1998. I saved an unsaved document, and got this message, which I've never seen befo "Do you also want to save changes to the Document Template?" How is it that, having saved documents a couple of million times before in Word 97, I never got this message until now? And what the heck does it mean? Just wondering |
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Suzanne, that was a promising lead, but it didn't pan out when I tested
it I attached a document to a template other than Normal, saved the doc, made changes in the doc and didn't save them, then made changes in the template and didn't save them, then went back to the doc and gave the Save command. No message appeared. Larry Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: When you save a document, you will get that prompt if you have made changes to the template since the previous save (for example, by modifying a style and checking the "Add to template" box). "Larry" wrote in message ... Jay, if this happens again I'll check and see if the document is attached to a template other than Normal. I don't think it was, but I could be wrong. However, even if it was, it still wouldn't make sense. Again, I was not closing the document, I was only saving it, so there was no reason for a prompt to save changes in the document template. Larry Jay Freedman wrote: Hi Larry, Something we haven't nailed down yet: When you're working on the document where this happens, is the document based on Normal.dot or on some other template? The reason I ask is that if it's Normal.dot that changed, you should be seeing a message with different wording: "Changes have been made that affect the global template, Normal. Do you want to save those changes?" You can see this illustrated at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...514521033.aspx. The message you quoted is the one you get when the base of the document is some *other* template, in which you've made some change such as a modified style or a new autotext. The "prompt to save Normal.dot" option has no effect on this message. Anne and Jay, Sometimes I have the "prompt to save Normal" feature on, most of the time not, but even if it's on that doesn't answer my question. I was not closing Word, I was saving a document. Why should there be any prompt regarding the saving of changes in the Normal template when I was simply saving a document? Moreover, the same thing just happened again now. I was saving an unsaved document, and got the same prompt, "Do you _also_ want to save changes to the Document Template?" (Note that "also.") Further, the "Prompt to save Normal template" feature is NOT checked right now. Yet I got this weird prompt. What does saving a document have to do with saving changes in Normal. It makes no sense. Larry "Jay Freedman" wrote in message news Just a bit more background: The reason the prompt is available is that silently changing things in the Normal.dot template is a favorite trick of macro viruses. You should leave the option turned on at all times. If you get the prompt and you don't know what changed, you should answer No and the changes won't be saved. There are a few problems with that scenario. For one thing, many users have no idea what Normal.dot is, let alone what they might have done during an editing session to change it. (Some examples a adding or modifying a style and checking the "Add to template" box in the dialog; making a new AutoCorrect or AutoText entry; creating or modifying a toolbar button or a keyboard shortcut; or changing a font setting in the Format Font dialog and clicking the Default button.) Even if you're aware of the things that can change the template, you may not remember everything you did during a long session. Finally -- thankfully! -- the #$% hackers and script kiddies seem to have found that it's easier or more satisfyingly destructive to make "regular" viruses rather than macro viruses, so there are fewer macro attacks than there used to be. Also, the major antivirus apps are pretty good at spotting infected documents and quarantining them before they can even be opened. One other thing: if the document is based on a template other than Normal.dot and you did something that changed that template (for example, adding a custom toolbar), you'll be prompted to save the template regardless of the setting of the option for Normal.dot. It's just the same as the prompt you get if you edit a document and then click Close without saving. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 10:48:42 -0400, "Anne Troy" wrote: Tools--Options, Save tab. If Prompt to save Normal template is checked. Most likely, it wasn't checked before. ******************* ~Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com www.MyExpertsOnline.com "Larry" wrote in message ... Word 97 which I've been using since 1998. I saved an unsaved document, and got this message, which I've never seen befo "Do you also want to save changes to the Document Template?" How is it that, having saved documents a couple of million times before in Word 97, I never got this message until now? And what the heck does it mean? Just wondering |
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I think it depends on the changes you make, and I'm not sure you went
through the exact process to prompt the message. If you make a change in the document that will propagate back to the template--for instance, changing a style and checking "add to template"--you should get this message on saving the doc. I'm not sure there are any other types of changes that could prompt it. Whether you have gone into the template and made changes there should be irrelevant. Daiya On 7/22/05 3:50 PM, "Larry" wrote: Suzanne, that was a promising lead, but it didn't pan out when I tested it I attached a document to a template other than Normal, saved the doc, made changes in the doc and didn't save them, then made changes in the template and didn't save them, then went back to the doc and gave the Save command. No message appeared. Larry Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: When you save a document, you will get that prompt if you have made changes to the template since the previous save (for example, by modifying a style and checking the "Add to template" box). "Larry" wrote in message ... Jay, if this happens again I'll check and see if the document is attached to a template other than Normal. I don't think it was, but I could be wrong. However, even if it was, it still wouldn't make sense. Again, I was not closing the document, I was only saving it, so there was no reason for a prompt to save changes in the document template. Larry Jay Freedman wrote: Hi Larry, Something we haven't nailed down yet: When you're working on the document where this happens, is the document based on Normal.dot or on some other template? The reason I ask is that if it's Normal.dot that changed, you should be seeing a message with different wording: "Changes have been made that affect the global template, Normal. Do you want to save those changes?" You can see this illustrated at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...514521033.aspx. The message you quoted is the one you get when the base of the document is some *other* template, in which you've made some change such as a modified style or a new autotext. The "prompt to save Normal.dot" option has no effect on this message. |