[Willy]

Somehow my format settings got distorted and I need to get back to the
original. I am using Office XP-Word 2000. Have tried restore & reinstalling
Office XP. No good.

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Without Word running, locate and rename the Normal.dot template and then
restart Word.

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Willy" wrote in message
...
Somehow my format settings got distorted and I need to get back to the
original. I am using Office XP-Word 2000. Have tried restore &
reinstalling
Office XP. No good.

[Willy]

Doug,
I am a little rusty! Where do I find this template? I looked in Explore at
the Word templates and could not identify it.
Thanks! Willy

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

Without Word running, locate and rename the Normal.dot template and then
restart Word.

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Willy" wrote in message
...
Somehow my format settings got distorted and I need to get back to the
original. I am using Office XP-Word 2000. Have tried restore &
reinstalling
Office XP. No good.

[Jay Freedman]

It's in a hidden folder, which is why you can't see it now.

One way is to use the Tools Folder Options View dialog in Windows
Explorer and click the option to show hidden folders and files. Then search
C:\Documents and Settings for Normal.dot. It should be in C:\Documents and
Settings\your name\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates.

The quicker way is to enter this in the address bar of Windows Explorer:

%appdata%\Microsoft\Templates

and hit Enter. That will open the folder where Normal.dot lives, even if you
haven't enabled hidden folders.

--
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.

Willy wrote:
Doug,
I am a little rusty! Where do I find this template? I looked in
Explore at the Word templates and could not identify it.
Thanks! Willy

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

Without Word running, locate and rename the Normal.dot template and
then restart Word.

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Willy" wrote in message
...
Somehow my format settings got distorted and I need to get back to
the original. I am using Office XP-Word 2000. Have tried restore &
reinstalling
Office XP. No good.

[Willy]

Jay, Found itwith your help and renamed it. When reopening Word, I got the
same template layout. In the upper left corner where the font type and size
would be is "Final Showing Markup"

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

It's in a hidden folder, which is why you can't see it now.

One way is to use the Tools Folder Options View dialog in Windows
Explorer and click the option to show hidden folders and files. Then search
C:\Documents and Settings for Normal.dot. It should be in C:\Documents and
Settings\your name\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates.

The quicker way is to enter this in the address bar of Windows Explorer:

%appdata%\Microsoft\Templates

and hit Enter. That will open the folder where Normal.dot lives, even if you
haven't enabled hidden folders.

--
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.

Willy wrote:
Doug,
I am a little rusty! Where do I find this template? I looked in
Explore at the Word templates and could not identify it.
Thanks! Willy

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

Without Word running, locate and rename the Normal.dot template and
then restart Word.

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Willy" wrote in message
...
Somehow my format settings got distorted and I need to get back to
the original. I am using Office XP-Word 2000. Have tried restore &
reinstalling
Office XP. No good.

[Graham Mayor]

Although now superfluous, note that "%appdata%\Microsoft\Templates" will not
work if the user templates folder location has been redefined .

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Jay Freedman wrote:
It's in a hidden folder, which is why you can't see it now.

One way is to use the Tools Folder Options View dialog in Windows
Explorer and click the option to show hidden folders and files. Then
search C:\Documents and Settings for Normal.dot. It should be in
C:\Documents and Settings\your name\Application
Data\Microsoft\Templates.
The quicker way is to enter this in the address bar of Windows
Explorer:
%appdata%\Microsoft\Templates

and hit Enter. That will open the folder where Normal.dot lives, even
if you haven't enabled hidden folders.


Willy wrote:
Doug,
I am a little rusty! Where do I find this template? I looked in
Explore at the Word templates and could not identify it.
Thanks! Willy

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

Without Word running, locate and rename the Normal.dot template and
then restart Word.

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of
my services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Willy" wrote in message
...
Somehow my format settings got distorted and I need to get back to
the original. I am using Office XP-Word 2000. Have tried restore &
reinstalling
Office XP. No good.

[Jay Freedman]

My assumption is that if the user has redefined the User Templates
setting, then (a) they're likely to know where they said to put it and
(b) it probably isn't in a hidden folder so a file search will find
it.

On Thu, 17 May 2007 08:32:45 +0300, "Graham Mayor"
wrote:

Although now superfluous, note that "%appdata%\Microsoft\Templates" will not
work if the user templates folder location has been redefined .

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Jay Freedman wrote:
It's in a hidden folder, which is why you can't see it now.

One way is to use the Tools Folder Options View dialog in Windows
Explorer and click the option to show hidden folders and files. Then
search C:\Documents and Settings for Normal.dot. It should be in
C:\Documents and Settings\your name\Application
Data\Microsoft\Templates.
The quicker way is to enter this in the address bar of Windows
Explorer:
%appdata%\Microsoft\Templates

and hit Enter. That will open the folder where Normal.dot lives, even
if you haven't enabled hidden folders.


Willy wrote:
Doug,
I am a little rusty! Where do I find this template? I looked in
Explore at the Word templates and could not identify it.
Thanks! Willy

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

Without Word running, locate and rename the Normal.dot template and
then restart Word.

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of
my services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Willy" wrote in message
...
Somehow my format settings got distorted and I need to get back to
the original. I am using Office XP-Word 2000. Have tried restore &
reinstalling
Office XP. No good.


--
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.

[Graham Mayor]

Unless the company IT department moved it?

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Jay Freedman wrote:
My assumption is that if the user has redefined the User Templates
setting, then (a) they're likely to know where they said to put it and
(b) it probably isn't in a hidden folder so a file search will find
it.

On Thu, 17 May 2007 08:32:45 +0300, "Graham Mayor"
wrote:

Although now superfluous, note that "%appdata%\Microsoft\Templates"
will not work if the user templates folder location has been
redefined .

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Jay Freedman wrote:
It's in a hidden folder, which is why you can't see it now.

One way is to use the Tools Folder Options View dialog in
Windows Explorer and click the option to show hidden folders and
files. Then search C:\Documents and Settings for Normal.dot. It
should be in C:\Documents and Settings\your name\Application
Data\Microsoft\Templates.
The quicker way is to enter this in the address bar of Windows
Explorer:
%appdata%\Microsoft\Templates

and hit Enter. That will open the folder where Normal.dot lives,
even if you haven't enabled hidden folders.


Willy wrote:
Doug,
I am a little rusty! Where do I find this template? I looked in
Explore at the Word templates and could not identify it.
Thanks! Willy

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

Without Word running, locate and rename the Normal.dot template
and then restart Word.

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of
my services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Willy" wrote in message
...
Somehow my format settings got distorted and I need to get back
to the original. I am using Office XP-Word 2000. Have tried
restore & reinstalling
Office XP. No good.