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Custom Styles and Macros have vanished
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I haven't done anything -- to my knowledge -- that would have caused this. It's as if Word was uninstalled and then subsequently reinstalled, or the settings set to some default. I had a few custome Styles that appeared in the ribbon. Moreover, I had a few Macros that I had recorded, the whole of which were visible when I clicked the "Delevoper" tab and then clicked on the Macro button. All gone. If anybody could point me in right direction, it would be much appreciated. |
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Custom Styles and Macros have vanished
These would have been stored in Normal.dotm--unless you specified a
different template when you created the custom styles and macros. Did you delete or rename that file? Are you (perhaps) starting Word either using the /a switch or in Safe mode? Either of those would suppress Normal.dotm from being opened. If you stored the macros and styles in a different template (or in a document), then they would show up only when editing a document based on that template (or when editing that document). -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Gregory Leck" wrote in message ... Word 2007 I haven't done anything -- to my knowledge -- that would have caused this. It's as if Word was uninstalled and then subsequently reinstalled, or the settings set to some default. I had a few custome Styles that appeared in the ribbon. Moreover, I had a few Macros that I had recorded, the whole of which were visible when I clicked the "Delevoper" tab and then clicked on the Macro button. All gone. If anybody could point me in right direction, it would be much appreciated. |
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Thank you for your reply.
I have to admit that even though I purchased Office a few months ago, I'm just now in the process of getting under the hood, so to speak. Previously, I used WordPerfect (since ver. 7.0). To my knowledge I did not delete nor rename Normal.dotm. Last Thursday, we experienced several power outages. After the first two power failures, I unplugged the computer. Word was probably running during the first power outage. Any chance that Normal.dotm was corrupted and summarily written over during a reboot? "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message ... These would have been stored in Normal.dotm--unless you specified a different template when you created the custom styles and macros. Did you delete or rename that file? Are you (perhaps) starting Word either using the /a switch or in Safe mode? Either of those would suppress Normal.dotm from being opened. If you stored the macros and styles in a different template (or in a document), then they would show up only when editing a document based on that template (or when editing that document). -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Gregory Leck" wrote in message ... Word 2007 I haven't done anything -- to my knowledge -- that would have caused this. It's as if Word was uninstalled and then subsequently reinstalled, or the settings set to some default. I had a few custome Styles that appeared in the ribbon. Moreover, I had a few Macros that I had recorded, the whole of which were visible when I clicked the "Delevoper" tab and then clicked on the Macro button. All gone. If anybody could point me in right direction, it would be much appreciated. |
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Yes. This might happen if the AutoRecover feature is not being used or if it
had not yet had time to kick in (default interval is 10 minutes) between the last time you saved and the plug pull. So, yes. There is a chance that pulling the plug rather than closing Word normally could have caused the problem. Note that Word is not alone in this respect... there are a number of programs that can lose important files if they are not closed judiciously. If you don't have one... I would recommend buying a UPS. Even a short-backup-time cheapo (under $50) would give you enough time to close programs safely before losing power. My power is exceedingly unreliable, so I wouldn't think of working without one. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Gregory Leck" wrote in message ... Thank you for your reply. I have to admit that even though I purchased Office a few months ago, I'm just now in the process of getting under the hood, so to speak. Previously, I used WordPerfect (since ver. 7.0). To my knowledge I did not delete nor rename Normal.dotm. Last Thursday, we experienced several power outages. After the first two power failures, I unplugged the computer. Word was probably running during the first power outage. Any chance that Normal.dotm was corrupted and summarily written over during a reboot? "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message ... These would have been stored in Normal.dotm--unless you specified a different template when you created the custom styles and macros. Did you delete or rename that file? Are you (perhaps) starting Word either using the /a switch or in Safe mode? Either of those would suppress Normal.dotm from being opened. If you stored the macros and styles in a different template (or in a document), then they would show up only when editing a document based on that template (or when editing that document). -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Gregory Leck" wrote in message ... Word 2007 I haven't done anything -- to my knowledge -- that would have caused this. It's as if Word was uninstalled and then subsequently reinstalled, or the settings set to some default. I had a few custome Styles that appeared in the ribbon. Moreover, I had a few Macros that I had recorded, the whole of which were visible when I clicked the "Delevoper" tab and then clicked on the Macro button. All gone. If anybody could point me in right direction, it would be much appreciated. |
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Herb Tyson [MVP] wrote:
If you don't have one... I would recommend buying a UPS. Even a short-backup-time cheapo (under $50) would give you enough time to close programs safely before losing power. My power is exceedingly unreliable, so I wouldn't think of working without one. We have an unreliable and uneven power supply which can damage electronic components, so I agree 100%. I had a cheapo one for several years and you tend to take it for granted, so when the power went out (again) last week and the ******* thing didn't catch the power outage and my computer crashed, I thought it time to replace it with something better. The one I have now is somewhat larger and will accommodate all my computer equipment, and has an easily replaceable battery - but it is a bit fussy which USB port it is connected to and doesn't like being connected to a hub. If your PC has a serial port (fast disappearing on current PCs) then a serially connected UPS may be a more reliable option (if you can find one) as it uses a port that you are unlikely to use for anything else. I now have to obtain a bus mounted USB2 card to replace the port that the current UPS uses  .-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org |
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My UPS has some sort of cable (serial, I think), along with its PowerChute
software, but I've never tried using it because I have never been able to convince myself that I want my UPS thinking for me when the power goes out. If I'm at the computer, I can handle shutdown myself. If I'm away from the computer, there won't be any files open that will be harmed by a hard shutdown. It is quite rare, however, for us to have a power outage long enough to require shutdown (at least an unexpected one--during electrical storms or in advance of a hurricane, you pretty much expect this and prepare for it). A UPS has saved me from a lot of swearing at the increasingly frequent split-second blips, though. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Herb Tyson [MVP] wrote: If you don't have one... I would recommend buying a UPS. Even a short-backup-time cheapo (under $50) would give you enough time to close programs safely before losing power. My power is exceedingly unreliable, so I wouldn't think of working without one. We have an unreliable and uneven power supply which can damage electronic components, so I agree 100%. I had a cheapo one for several years and you tend to take it for granted, so when the power went out (again) last week and the ******* thing didn't catch the power outage and my computer crashed, I thought it time to replace it with something better. The one I have now is somewhat larger and will accommodate all my computer equipment, and has an easily replaceable battery - but it is a bit fussy which USB port it is connected to and doesn't like being connected to a hub. If your PC has a serial port (fast disappearing on current PCs) then a serially connected UPS may be a more reliable option (if you can find one) as it uses a port that you are unlikely to use for anything else. I now have to obtain a bus mounted USB2 card to replace the port that the current UPS uses .-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org |
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Our power supply tends to go out for periods of half an hour or more. On the
last occasion, which led to the replacement of the UPS, the power was out for an hour, then on for half an hour then off again for a further twenty minutes. I don't sit at my computer all the time, so I need it to be shut down cleanly. The connection to the PC allows the UPS to shut down the PC after a pre-determined time. It saves all open files (that have been saved once) and closes the applications before shutting Windows. On my current settings this occurs after five minutes. It could cause harm to the PC to simply pull the plug (which would be the effect of the hard shut down you describe) Better to allow it to shut down windows cleanly - and of course if you are sitting at the PC you can attend to those files that need to be saved first. In my case if I am sitting at the keyboard when the alarm goes, I simply click the sleep button on the keyboard which is configured to hibernate the PC. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: My UPS has some sort of cable (serial, I think), along with its PowerChute software, but I've never tried using it because I have never been able to convince myself that I want my UPS thinking for me when the power goes out. If I'm at the computer, I can handle shutdown myself. If I'm away from the computer, there won't be any files open that will be harmed by a hard shutdown. It is quite rare, however, for us to have a power outage long enough to require shutdown (at least an unexpected one--during electrical storms or in advance of a hurricane, you pretty much expect this and prepare for it). A UPS has saved me from a lot of swearing at the increasingly frequent split-second blips, though. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Herb Tyson [MVP] wrote: If you don't have one... I would recommend buying a UPS. Even a short-backup-time cheapo (under $50) would give you enough time to close programs safely before losing power. My power is exceedingly unreliable, so I wouldn't think of working without one. We have an unreliable and uneven power supply which can damage electronic components, so I agree 100%. I had a cheapo one for several years and you tend to take it for granted, so when the power went out (again) last week and the ******* thing didn't catch the power outage and my computer crashed, I thought it time to replace it with something better. The one I have now is somewhat larger and will accommodate all my computer equipment, and has an easily replaceable battery - but it is a bit fussy which USB port it is connected to and doesn't like being connected to a hub. If your PC has a serial port (fast disappearing on current PCs) then a serially connected UPS may be a more reliable option (if you can find one) as it uses a port that you are unlikely to use for anything else. I now have to obtain a bus mounted USB2 card to replace the port that the current UPS uses .-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org |
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Oh, and I guess I should include that dotm file in my regular backups!
"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message ... Yes. This might happen if the AutoRecover feature is not being used or if it had not yet had time to kick in (default interval is 10 minutes) between the last time you saved and the plug pull. So, yes. There is a chance that pulling the plug rather than closing Word normally could have caused the problem. Note that Word is not alone in this respect... there are a number of programs that can lose important files if they are not closed judiciously. If you don't have one... I would recommend buying a UPS. Even a short-backup-time cheapo (under $50) would give you enough time to close programs safely before losing power. My power is exceedingly unreliable, so I wouldn't think of working without one. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Gregory Leck" wrote in message ... Thank you for your reply. I have to admit that even though I purchased Office a few months ago, I'm just now in the process of getting under the hood, so to speak. Previously, I used WordPerfect (since ver. 7.0). To my knowledge I did not delete nor rename Normal.dotm. Last Thursday, we experienced several power outages. After the first two power failures, I unplugged the computer. Word was probably running during the first power outage. Any chance that Normal.dotm was corrupted and summarily written over during a reboot? "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message ... These would have been stored in Normal.dotm--unless you specified a different template when you created the custom styles and macros. Did you delete or rename that file? Are you (perhaps) starting Word either using the /a switch or in Safe mode? Either of those would suppress Normal.dotm from being opened. If you stored the macros and styles in a different template (or in a document), then they would show up only when editing a document based on that template (or when editing that document). -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Gregory Leck" wrote in message ... Word 2007 I haven't done anything -- to my knowledge -- that would have caused this. It's as if Word was uninstalled and then subsequently reinstalled, or the settings set to some default. I had a few custome Styles that appeared in the ribbon. Moreover, I had a few Macros that I had recorded, the whole of which were visible when I clicked the "Delevoper" tab and then clicked on the Macro button. All gone. If anybody could point me in right direction, it would be much appreciated. |
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Only if you value it. ;-)
-- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Gregory Leck" wrote in message ... Oh, and I guess I should include that dotm file in my regular backups! |
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I managed to find the location of the dotm file. It's in a hidden folder (took me a few hours to figure that out). I found a file called normal.dotm.old. I removed the .old extension from that file and modified the name of the existing normal.dotm file. Word 2007 now reveals my modified styles in addition to the macros I created. So amazingly enough, I didn't lose any of my valued creations!
One last thing: One of my posts didn't show up so I would just like to reiterate to the good folks he No, I didn't unplug my computer while it was on! This has been a great learning experience! "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message ... Only if you value it. ;-) -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Gregory Leck" wrote in message ... Oh, and I guess I should include that dotm file in my regular backups! |
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The mystery now is WHAT exactly did you install that backed up your
normal.dotm file as normal.dotm.old. While I've done that a number of times myself, I haven't run across anything else that does it "for" me. In any event, it's good to see that you got your investment back. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Gregory Leck" wrote in message ... I managed to find the location of the dotm file. It's in a hidden folder (took me a few hours to figure that out). I found a file called normal.dotm.old. I removed the .old extension from that file and modified the name of the existing normal.dotm file. Word 2007 now reveals my modified styles in addition to the macros I created. So amazingly enough, I didn't lose any of my valued creations! One last thing: One of my posts didn't show up so I would just like to reiterate to the good folks he No, I didn't unplug my computer while it was on! This has been a great learning experience! "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote in message ... Only if you value it. ;-) -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Gregory Leck" wrote in message ... Oh, and I guess I should include that dotm file in my regular backups! |
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