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Save Changes to the Global Template? Keeps Popping Up
I keep getting the prompt asking if I want to save Normal.dot. I've
reviewed the FAQ at addbalance.com on this issue. I currently have Word set up so that the only template being accessed is Normal.dot. I've checked for COM add-ins and have none. I have noticed however, that the file size of Normal.dot increases by 2 kb nearly every time I close out of Word after getting the prompt about saving changes to the template. I always answer No, but the file size of Normal.dot grows so it seems like some kind of information may be getting written to that file regardless. The pop up has become very annoying and I don't know what else to try in order to get it stopped. I'm using Word 2003. I do have a 3rd party application that opens Word to create documents, and it's only when Word docs are opened with this program that I have the problems with the Normal.dot popup prompt. However, 15 others in my office use the same 3rd party program, without any problem whatsoever. It seems to me like there must be some kind of setting in Word that is causing this behavior. Roger |
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It is some setting in your third-party program. If it changes or adds menus,
toolbars, or keyboard shortcuts, it is probably making changes to normal.dot. My guess is that the others in your workgroup do not have the option checked to prompt before saving changes to normal.dot. This does not just happen. And there is no setting in Word, itself, that automatically changes normal.dot every time Word is opened (so long as you have a normal.dot). -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Roger Marrs" wrote in message ... I keep getting the prompt asking if I want to save Normal.dot. I've reviewed the FAQ at addbalance.com on this issue. I currently have Word set up so that the only template being accessed is Normal.dot. I've checked for COM add-ins and have none. I have noticed however, that the file size of Normal.dot increases by 2 kb nearly every time I close out of Word after getting the prompt about saving changes to the template. I always answer No, but the file size of Normal.dot grows so it seems like some kind of information may be getting written to that file regardless. The pop up has become very annoying and I don't know what else to try in order to get it stopped. I'm using Word 2003. I do have a 3rd party application that opens Word to create documents, and it's only when Word docs are opened with this program that I have the problems with the Normal.dot popup prompt. However, 15 others in my office use the same 3rd party program, without any problem whatsoever. It seems to me like there must be some kind of setting in Word that is causing this behavior. Roger |
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Save Changes to the Global Template? Keeps Popping Up
See “Word prompts me to save changes to the Normal.dot template”
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...514521033.aspx -- 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. "Roger Marrs" wrote in message ... I keep getting the prompt asking if I want to save Normal.dot. I've reviewed the FAQ at addbalance.com on this issue. I currently have Word set up so that the only template being accessed is Normal.dot. I've checked for COM add-ins and have none. I have noticed however, that the file size of Normal.dot increases by 2 kb nearly every time I close out of Word after getting the prompt about saving changes to the template. I always answer No, but the file size of Normal.dot grows so it seems like some kind of information may be getting written to that file regardless. The pop up has become very annoying and I don't know what else to try in order to get it stopped. I'm using Word 2003. I do have a 3rd party application that opens Word to create documents, and it's only when Word docs are opened with this program that I have the problems with the Normal.dot popup prompt. However, 15 others in my office use the same 3rd party program, without any problem whatsoever. It seems to me like there must be some kind of setting in Word that is causing this behavior. Roger |
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Save Changes to the Global Template? Keeps Popping Up
Mon, 10 Apr 2006 17:13:08 -0500 from Charles Kenyon
: It is some setting in your third-party program. Or it's the time change, as I discovered. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com/ |
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Save Changes to the Global Template? Keeps Popping Up
The third-party program doesn't integrate with Word in any way, other than
providing the user the option to use Word as the document editor, rather than the built-in generic rtf editor. The programs document processor then opens the documents in Word for editing. The vendor intentionally avoids any integration with Word beyond the bare minimum necessary to enable Word to be used as the editor. However, I did narrow the problem down to the "Trust all installed add-ins and templates" check box in the Macro Security dialog. If I clear that check box then when starting Word I get prompted to enable or disable three macros: Normal.dot; an add-in for Conferral (a web conferencing program); and a global template file we use in our office. If I leave the "Trust all..." check box cleared, but set the macro security back to low, the problem returns. I can enable each of those macros without encountering the problem with the Normal.dot popup prompt. I went through the article link provided by Susan Barnhill, but none of the solutions suggested in that article enabled me to find the offending file or add-in. I don't have any COM add-ins, there are not any templates in the Office Startup folder, the macros that I am prompted about aren't the source of the problem. We use Norton CE so I searched for the OFFICEAV.DLL file and it wasn't found on my drive. It seems like there must be a macro that, if allowed to run, creates the problem, but I'm not being prompted to enable the offending macro when security is set to Medium. Any other ideas? and add-ins "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... It is some setting in your third-party program. If it changes or adds menus, toolbars, or keyboard shortcuts, it is probably making changes to normal.dot. My guess is that the others in your workgroup do not have the option checked to prompt before saving changes to normal.dot. This does not just happen. And there is no setting in Word, itself, that automatically changes normal.dot every time Word is opened (so long as you have a normal.dot). -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Roger Marrs" wrote in message ... I keep getting the prompt asking if I want to save Normal.dot. I've reviewed the FAQ at addbalance.com on this issue. I currently have Word set up so that the only template being accessed is Normal.dot. I've checked for COM add-ins and have none. I have noticed however, that the file size of Normal.dot increases by 2 kb nearly every time I close out of Word after getting the prompt about saving changes to the template. I always answer No, but the file size of Normal.dot grows so it seems like some kind of information may be getting written to that file regardless. The pop up has become very annoying and I don't know what else to try in order to get it stopped. I'm using Word 2003. I do have a 3rd party application that opens Word to create documents, and it's only when Word docs are opened with this program that I have the problems with the Normal.dot popup prompt. However, 15 others in my office use the same 3rd party program, without any problem whatsoever. It seems to me like there must be some kind of setting in Word that is causing this behavior. Roger |
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I'd take a hard look at the Conferral add-in.
-- 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. "Roger Marrs" wrote in message ... The third-party program doesn't integrate with Word in any way, other than providing the user the option to use Word as the document editor, rather than the built-in generic rtf editor. The programs document processor then opens the documents in Word for editing. The vendor intentionally avoids any integration with Word beyond the bare minimum necessary to enable Word to be used as the editor. However, I did narrow the problem down to the "Trust all installed add-ins and templates" check box in the Macro Security dialog. If I clear that check box then when starting Word I get prompted to enable or disable three macros: Normal.dot; an add-in for Conferral (a web conferencing program); and a global template file we use in our office. If I leave the "Trust all..." check box cleared, but set the macro security back to low, the problem returns. I can enable each of those macros without encountering the problem with the Normal.dot popup prompt. I went through the article link provided by Susan Barnhill, but none of the solutions suggested in that article enabled me to find the offending file or add-in. I don't have any COM add-ins, there are not any templates in the Office Startup folder, the macros that I am prompted about aren't the source of the problem. We use Norton CE so I searched for the OFFICEAV.DLL file and it wasn't found on my drive. It seems like there must be a macro that, if allowed to run, creates the problem, but I'm not being prompted to enable the offending macro when security is set to Medium. Any other ideas? and add-ins "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... It is some setting in your third-party program. If it changes or adds menus, toolbars, or keyboard shortcuts, it is probably making changes to normal.dot. My guess is that the others in your workgroup do not have the option checked to prompt before saving changes to normal.dot. This does not just happen. And there is no setting in Word, itself, that automatically changes normal.dot every time Word is opened (so long as you have a normal.dot). -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Roger Marrs" wrote in message ... I keep getting the prompt asking if I want to save Normal.dot. I've reviewed the FAQ at addbalance.com on this issue. I currently have Word set up so that the only template being accessed is Normal.dot. I've checked for COM add-ins and have none. I have noticed however, that the file size of Normal.dot increases by 2 kb nearly every time I close out of Word after getting the prompt about saving changes to the template. I always answer No, but the file size of Normal.dot grows so it seems like some kind of information may be getting written to that file regardless. The pop up has become very annoying and I don't know what else to try in order to get it stopped. I'm using Word 2003. I do have a 3rd party application that opens Word to create documents, and it's only when Word docs are opened with this program that I have the problems with the Normal.dot popup prompt. However, 15 others in my office use the same 3rd party program, without any problem whatsoever. It seems to me like there must be some kind of setting in Word that is causing this behavior. Roger |
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Strange, but Word is working just fine now. Conferral didn't provide any
configuration options to disable the .dll file. So I attempted to disable the .dll that was showing up on the enable/disable marcos prompt by moving it to a different folder. That didn't solve the problem, so I moved the .dll file back to its original location. However, Word now seems to be playing nicely with my third-party app without any problems at all. Thanks to all for their efforts to help me fix this annoying situation. Roger "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I'd take a hard look at the Conferral add-in. -- 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. "Roger Marrs" wrote in message ... The third-party program doesn't integrate with Word in any way, other than providing the user the option to use Word as the document editor, rather than the built-in generic rtf editor. The programs document processor then opens the documents in Word for editing. The vendor intentionally avoids any integration with Word beyond the bare minimum necessary to enable Word to be used as the editor. However, I did narrow the problem down to the "Trust all installed add-ins and templates" check box in the Macro Security dialog. If I clear that check box then when starting Word I get prompted to enable or disable three macros: Normal.dot; an add-in for Conferral (a web conferencing program); and a global template file we use in our office. If I leave the "Trust all..." check box cleared, but set the macro security back to low, the problem returns. I can enable each of those macros without encountering the problem with the Normal.dot popup prompt. I went through the article link provided by Susan Barnhill, but none of the solutions suggested in that article enabled me to find the offending file or add-in. I don't have any COM add-ins, there are not any templates in the Office Startup folder, the macros that I am prompted about aren't the source of the problem. We use Norton CE so I searched for the OFFICEAV.DLL file and it wasn't found on my drive. It seems like there must be a macro that, if allowed to run, creates the problem, but I'm not being prompted to enable the offending macro when security is set to Medium. Any other ideas? and add-ins "Charles Kenyon" wrote in message ... It is some setting in your third-party program. If it changes or adds menus, toolbars, or keyboard shortcuts, it is probably making changes to normal.dot. My guess is that the others in your workgroup do not have the option checked to prompt before saving changes to normal.dot. This does not just happen. And there is no setting in Word, itself, that automatically changes normal.dot every time Word is opened (so long as you have a normal.dot). -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Roger Marrs" wrote in message ... I keep getting the prompt asking if I want to save Normal.dot. I've reviewed the FAQ at addbalance.com on this issue. I currently have Word set up so that the only template being accessed is Normal.dot. I've checked for COM add-ins and have none. I have noticed however, that the file size of Normal.dot increases by 2 kb nearly every time I close out of Word after getting the prompt about saving changes to the template. I always answer No, but the file size of Normal.dot grows so it seems like some kind of information may be getting written to that file regardless. The pop up has become very annoying and I don't know what else to try in order to get it stopped. I'm using Word 2003. I do have a 3rd party application that opens Word to create documents, and it's only when Word docs are opened with this program that I have the problems with the Normal.dot popup prompt. However, 15 others in my office use the same 3rd party program, without any problem whatsoever. It seems to me like there must be some kind of setting in Word that is causing this behavior. Roger |
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