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Normal.dot versus online dot files
Can someone please explain the difference between Normal.dot and online
templates - each with the exact same styles. Or point me to a Web site that can explain the difference. Please see my concern below. I work in an office where we have Normal.dot set up with the styles we use in our engineering documents. We also have online Word templates set up with the same styles so the engineers can enter their information and the formatting would be applied. If the online templates contain the styles needed to format the engineering documents, why do we need Normal.dot to have the same styles. Why do we need Normal.dot at all??? Any explanation you can offer would ge greatly appreciated. -- Thanks, getravel |
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On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 19:21:28 -0800, getravel
wrote: Can someone please explain the difference between Normal.dot and online templates - each with the exact same styles. Or point me to a Web site that can explain the difference. Please see my concern below. I work in an office where we have Normal.dot set up with the styles we use in our engineering documents. We also have online Word templates set up with the same styles so the engineers can enter their information and the formatting would be applied. If the online templates contain the styles needed to format the engineering documents, why do we need Normal.dot to have the same styles. Why do we need Normal.dot at all??? Any explanation you can offer would ge greatly appreciated. What you're calling "online templates" supply the formatting for specific types of documents. (They don't have to be online; they could be stored locally on each computer.) Normal.dot supplies the formatting for the "blank document" that Word creates by default if you don't choose another template. It also loads like an add-in for all other documents. Word can't operate without Normal.dot; if you delete the file, Word will automatically create a new one. For more explanation of this, see http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...latesStore.htm, http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/temp...ons/index.html, and http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/P...cle.asp?ID=151. The main reason to keep the styles the same in both types of templates is to prevent problems that occur when you copy/paste material from one document to another, in which styles have the same name but different definitions. See http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/shar...matChange.html for a description of this problem. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Also, although the styles may have the same names, they don't necessarily
have the same formatting. But the main purpose of Normal.dot in this case is to store your customizations of *your* copy of Word: any AutoText entries you may add or customizations you may make to toolbars or menus, the default view or Zoom, the way the program looks when you open it. -- 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. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 19:21:28 -0800, getravel wrote: Can someone please explain the difference between Normal.dot and online templates - each with the exact same styles. Or point me to a Web site that can explain the difference. Please see my concern below. I work in an office where we have Normal.dot set up with the styles we use in our engineering documents. We also have online Word templates set up with the same styles so the engineers can enter their information and the formatting would be applied. If the online templates contain the styles needed to format the engineering documents, why do we need Normal.dot to have the same styles. Why do we need Normal.dot at all??? Any explanation you can offer would ge greatly appreciated. What you're calling "online templates" supply the formatting for specific types of documents. (They don't have to be online; they could be stored locally on each computer.) Normal.dot supplies the formatting for the "blank document" that Word creates by default if you don't choose another template. It also loads like an add-in for all other documents. Word can't operate without Normal.dot; if you delete the file, Word will automatically create a new one. For more explanation of this, see http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...latesStore.htm, http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/temp...ons/index.html, and http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/P...cle.asp?ID=151. The main reason to keep the styles the same in both types of templates is to prevent problems that occur when you copy/paste material from one document to another, in which styles have the same name but different definitions. See http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/shar...matChange.html for a description of this problem. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Normal.dot versus online dot files
Normal.dot is an individual user file that stores (some) personalisations.
You cannot work without it and it must never be shared. Documents templates provide the formatting for individual document types. The two work together with the document template having priority. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org getravel wrote: Can someone please explain the difference between Normal.dot and online templates - each with the exact same styles. Or point me to a Web site that can explain the difference. Please see my concern below. I work in an office where we have Normal.dot set up with the styles we use in our engineering documents. We also have online Word templates set up with the same styles so the engineers can enter their information and the formatting would be applied. If the online templates contain the styles needed to format the engineering documents, why do we need Normal.dot to have the same styles. Why do we need Normal.dot at all??? Any explanation you can offer would ge greatly appreciated. |
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Normal.dot is a part of the Word program. It should never be shared. You
should be using document templates to transmit your styles. These can be shared in a workgroup templates folder. For more on the different kinds of templates, tabs on the file new dialog, and locations of templates folders see http://addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm. -- 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. "getravel" wrote in message ... Can someone please explain the difference between Normal.dot and online templates - each with the exact same styles. Or point me to a Web site that can explain the difference. Please see my concern below. I work in an office where we have Normal.dot set up with the styles we use in our engineering documents. We also have online Word templates set up with the same styles so the engineers can enter their information and the formatting would be applied. If the online templates contain the styles needed to format the engineering documents, why do we need Normal.dot to have the same styles. Why do we need Normal.dot at all??? Any explanation you can offer would ge greatly appreciated. -- Thanks, getravel |
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Thank you everyone for the excellent information. I fully understand the
differences and the uses for each. Now, I'm explaining to my coworkers the differences and uses. Thank you once again. -- Thanks, getravel (Mike) "getravel" wrote: Can someone please explain the difference between Normal.dot and online templates - each with the exact same styles. Or point me to a Web site that can explain the difference. Please see my concern below. I work in an office where we have Normal.dot set up with the styles we use in our engineering documents. We also have online Word templates set up with the same styles so the engineers can enter their information and the formatting would be applied. If the online templates contain the styles needed to format the engineering documents, why do we need Normal.dot to have the same styles. Why do we need Normal.dot at all??? Any explanation you can offer would ge greatly appreciated. -- Thanks, getravel |
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