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Template Problem?
I am working with W XP and Word 2003. Whenever I start a new document
in Word I get a blank page that has a footer that contains the file name, full path, and the date of printing. I think that at one time I set up a template with this information in the footer. This has been working fine as anytime I am asked about a paper document I know where it is stored and when it was printed. Now I am trying to print a full page of Avery 8160 labels. When I do this the last row of labels print on a second sheet. I am guessing this is because the footer information is causing the page break. I have tried deleting the fields from the footer but this does not help. I would appreciate any help available. Thanks. |
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On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 16:09:56 -0800 (PST), trvlnmny
wrote: I am working with W XP and Word 2003. Whenever I start a new document in Word I get a blank page that has a footer that contains the file name, full path, and the date of printing. I think that at one time I set up a template with this information in the footer. This has been working fine as anytime I am asked about a paper document I know where it is stored and when it was printed. Now I am trying to print a full page of Avery 8160 labels. When I do this the last row of labels print on a second sheet. I am guessing this is because the footer information is causing the page break. I have tried deleting the fields from the footer but this does not help. I would appreciate any help available. Thanks. Your suspicion is correct -- the problem is caused by having a footer in the Normal.dot template, which is always used as the base for label documents when you go through the Labels dialog. The part that's not obvious is that once you create a header or footer in any template or document, you can never delete the paragraph mark even if you select the whole footer and press Delete. That throws off the spacing for the labels. To fix this, find your Normal.dot template (probably in the folder %appdata%\Microsoft\Templates, but check the location in Tools Options File Locations User Templates) and rename it to something like CustomNormal.dot. Restart Word, and it will create a pristine Normal.dot that has no footer at all. -- 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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On Jan 9, 11:14*pm, Jay Freedman wrote:
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 16:09:56 -0800 (PST), trvlnmny wrote: I am working with W XP and Word 2003. Whenever I start a new document in Word I get a blank page that has a footer that contains the file name, full path, and the date of printing. I think that at one time I set up a template with this information in the footer. This has been working fine as anytime I am asked about a paper document I know where it is stored and when it was printed. Now I am trying to print a full page of Avery 8160 labels. When I do this the last row of labels print on a second sheet. I am guessing this is because the footer information is causing the page break. I have tried deleting the fields from the footer but this does not help. I would appreciate any help available. Thanks. Your suspicion is correct -- the problem is caused by having a footer in the Normal.dot template, which is always used as the base for label documents when you go through the Labels dialog. The part that's not obvious is that once you create a header or footer in any template or document, you can never delete the paragraph mark even if you select the whole footer and press Delete. That throws off the spacing for the labels. To fix this, find your Normal.dot template (probably in the folder %appdata%\Microsoft\Templates, but check the location in Tools Options File Locations User Templates) and rename it to something like CustomNormal.dot. Restart Word, and it will create a pristine Normal.dot that has no footer at all. -- 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.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Jay, That did it, thanks for your help. It does lead me to a second question. How do I now open new documents and use the CustomNormal template. Thanks again. |
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trvlnmny wrote:
Jay, That did it, thanks for your help. It does lead me to a second question. How do I now open new documents and use the CustomNormal template. Thanks again. When you click File New or the New button on the toolbar, it opens the New Document task pane. In there, under Templates, click the link for "On my computer", which opens a dialog showing the templates stored in your Templates folder. (That's where the CustomNormal.dot template should be; if it's somewhere else, move it there.) Select the template and click OK (or just double-click the template, which does the same thing). You can replace the rather useless button on the toolbar with one that goes directly to the dialog. Open Tools Customize, set the category to All Commands, find the FileNewDialog command in the right-hand list, and drag it to the toolbar. Then drag the old button off the toolbar to get rid of it. -- 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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On Jan 10, 5:33*pm, "Jay Freedman" wrote:
trvlnmny wrote: Jay, That did it, thanks for your help. It does lead me to a second question. How do I now open new documents and use the CustomNormal template. Thanks again. When you click File New or the New button on the toolbar, it opens the New Document task pane. In there, under Templates, click the link for "On my computer", which opens a dialog showing the templates stored in your Templates folder. (That's where the CustomNormal.dot template should be; if it's somewhere else, move it there.) Select the template and click OK (or just double-click the template, which does the same thing). You can replace the rather useless button on the toolbar with one that goes directly to the dialog. Open Tools Customize, set the category to All Commands, find the FileNewDialog command in the right-hand list, and drag it to the toolbar. Then drag the old button off the toolbar to get rid of it. -- 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. Jay, Thank you for the quick rteply. I am on the right track now. I don't really know where I am going but I have my head down and and I'm travelling at full speed. |
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Word will automatically create a new normal.dot as soon as one is needed
(and that is not normally until you make a change - such as the default font or page margins - that needs to be saved to normal.dot). -- Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP "trvlnmny" wrote in message ... On Jan 9, 11:14 pm, Jay Freedman wrote: On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 16:09:56 -0800 (PST), trvlnmny wrote: I am working with W XP and Word 2003. Whenever I start a new document in Word I get a blank page that has a footer that contains the file name, full path, and the date of printing. I think that at one time I set up a template with this information in the footer. This has been working fine as anytime I am asked about a paper document I know where it is stored and when it was printed. Now I am trying to print a full page of Avery 8160 labels. When I do this the last row of labels print on a second sheet. I am guessing this is because the footer information is causing the page break. I have tried deleting the fields from the footer but this does not help. I would appreciate any help available. Thanks. Your suspicion is correct -- the problem is caused by having a footer in the Normal.dot template, which is always used as the base for label documents when you go through the Labels dialog. The part that's not obvious is that once you create a header or footer in any template or document, you can never delete the paragraph mark even if you select the whole footer and press Delete. That throws off the spacing for the labels. To fix this, find your Normal.dot template (probably in the folder %appdata%\Microsoft\Templates, but check the location in Tools Options File Locations User Templates) and rename it to something like CustomNormal.dot. Restart Word, and it will create a pristine Normal.dot that has no footer at all. -- 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.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Jay, That did it, thanks for your help. It does lead me to a second question. How do I now open new documents and use the CustomNormal template. Thanks again. |
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