I just recently upgraded to Word 2003 and have noticed that normal.dot appears at the top of the recently used file list all the time. Also, word is very slow to close as it always flashes to a blank document (normal.dot I think) a couple of times then closes altogether.

I think this started happening when I changed the location of where word looks for normal.dot. I have changed it back to the original location but the same thing is still happening.

Thanks for any help
Scott

Scott Schaffer
ITSA
Olive Waller Zinkhan & Waller

Start by checking the box for "Prompt to save Normal template" on the Save
tab of Tools | Options so that Word will have to ask you before it can save
Normal.dot. Then look for the poorly written add-in (for that's almost
certainly the culprit) that is causing this behavior. Common offenders are
the Office Plug-in in Norton AntiVirus and the Microsoft Works Suite Add-in
for Word. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...sInstalled.htm and “Word
prompts me to save changes to the Normal.dot template” at
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
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"Scott Schaffer" wrote in message
...
I just recently upgraded to Word 2003 and have noticed that normal.dot
appears at the top of the recently used file list all the time. Also, word
is very slow to close as it always flashes to a blank document (normal.dot I
think) a couple of times then closes altogether.

I think this started happening when I changed the location of where word
looks for normal.dot. I have changed it back to the original location but
the same thing is still happening.

Thanks for any help
Scott

Scott Schaffer
ITSA
Olive Waller Zinkhan & Waller

Found it or them.

Omnipage and paperport both installed some add-ins that seem to be causing the problem. The articles you gave links for were quite helpful, as were you.

Thank you very much.
Scott Schaffer

Scott Schaffer
ITSA
Olive Waller Zinkhan & Waller

Suzanne S. 01/20/06 11:14am
Start by checking the box for "Prompt to save Normal template" on the Save
tab of Tools | Options so that Word will have to ask you before it can save
Normal.dot. Then look for the poorly written add-in (for that's almost
certainly the culprit) that is causing this behavior. Common offenders are
the Office Plug-in in Norton AntiVirus and the Microsoft Works Suite Add-in
for Word. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...sInstalled.htm and “Word
prompts me to save changes to the Normal.dot template” at
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.

"Scott Schaffer" wrote in message
...
I just recently upgraded to Word 2003 and have noticed that normal.dot
appears at the top of the recently used file list all the time. Also, word
is very slow to close as it always flashes to a blank document (normal.dot I
think) a couple of times then closes altogether.

I think this started happening when I changed the location of where word
looks for normal.dot. I have changed it back to the original location but
the same thing is still happening.

Thanks for any help
Scott

Scott Schaffer
ITSA
Olive Waller Zinkhan & Waller

Glad I could help.

--
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.

"Scott Schaffer" wrote in message
...
Found it or them.

Omnipage and paperport both installed some add-ins that seem to be causing
the problem. The articles you gave links for were quite helpful, as were
you.

Thank you very much.
Scott Schaffer

Scott Schaffer
ITSA
Olive Waller Zinkhan & Waller

Suzanne S. 01/20/06 11:14am
Start by checking the box for "Prompt to save Normal template" on the Save
tab of Tools | Options so that Word will have to ask you before it can
save
Normal.dot. Then look for the poorly written add-in (for that's almost
certainly the culprit) that is causing this behavior. Common offenders are
the Office Plug-in in Norton AntiVirus and the Microsoft Works Suite
Add-in
for Word. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...sInstalled.htm and
“Word
prompts me to save changes to the Normal.dot template” at
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.

"Scott Schaffer" wrote in message
...
I just recently upgraded to Word 2003 and have noticed that normal.dot
appears at the top of the recently used file list all the time. Also, word
is very slow to close as it always flashes to a blank document (normal.dot
I
think) a couple of times then closes altogether.

I think this started happening when I changed the location of where word
looks for normal.dot. I have changed it back to the original location but
the same thing is still happening.

Thanks for any help
Scott

Scott Schaffer
ITSA
Olive Waller Zinkhan & Waller