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How do I delete a created document that reappears on the blank pag
A former staff person created a letter to her son on the blank page,
document1. We cannot get rid of this letter and recover the original blank page on opening the program or opening another blank page. I even removed the software and reinstalled several weeks later and it came back with the letter on opening the program. According to her there was no password used on the letter. |
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How do I delete a created document that reappears on the blankpag
See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm .
dalemett wrote: A former staff person created a letter to her son on the blank page, document1. We cannot get rid of this letter and recover the original blank page on opening the program or opening another blank page. I even removed the software and reinstalled several weeks later and it came back with the letter on opening the program. According to her there was no password used on the letter. |
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How do I delete a created document that reappears on the blank pag
That blank page that opens as Document1 is your Normal template. All you
need to do is find the file called "Normal.dot" and delete it. "dalemett" wrote: A former staff person created a letter to her son on the blank page, document1. We cannot get rid of this letter and recover the original blank page on opening the program or opening another blank page. I even removed the software and reinstalled several weeks later and it came back with the letter on opening the program. According to her there was no password used on the letter. |
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See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm
-- 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. "dalemett" wrote in message ... A former staff person created a letter to her son on the blank page, document1. We cannot get rid of this letter and recover the original blank page on opening the program or opening another blank page. I even removed the software and reinstalled several weeks later and it came back with the letter on opening the program. According to her there was no password used on the letter. |
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How do I delete a created document that reappears on the blank
Hi, Suzanne,
I'm curious why you feel so strongly about this. I always thought that deleting the Normal.dot template was a fairly innocuous thing to do, since Word will automatically create a new Normal.dot next time you start. I must have been wrong, it seems. Fred "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: No! Not delete! Rename at most. -- 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. "Idaho Word Man" wrote in message ... That blank page that opens as Document1 is your Normal template. All you need to do is find the file called "Normal.dot" and delete it. "dalemett" wrote: A former staff person created a letter to her son on the blank page, document1. We cannot get rid of this letter and recover the original blank page on opening the program or opening another blank page. I even removed the software and reinstalled several weeks later and it came back with the letter on opening the program. According to her there was no password used on the letter. |
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Normal.dot by default stores all your user customizations (macros, AutoText
entries, formatted AutoCorrect entries, toolbar and menu customizations, style modifications, etc.). If you had customized Word as heavily as I have, you would be extremely fearful of losing Normal.dot (and careful to keep it backed up). If you just rename it, you can retrieve at least some of those customizations through the Organizer. And if turns out that Normal.dot was not the problem after all, you can delete the new one and revert to the old one. Are you saying that you have never added or deleted a toolbar button, created an AutoText entry, modified a style and saved these changes to Normal.dot? If so, you're either a very sophisticated user who stores everything in document templates and global add-ins, or you have barely scratched the surface of Word's possibilities. -- 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. "Idaho Word Man" wrote in message news Hi, Suzanne, I'm curious why you feel so strongly about this. I always thought that deleting the Normal.dot template was a fairly innocuous thing to do, since Word will automatically create a new Normal.dot next time you start. I must have been wrong, it seems. Fred "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: No! Not delete! Rename at most. -- 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. "Idaho Word Man" wrote in message ... That blank page that opens as Document1 is your Normal template. All you need to do is find the file called "Normal.dot" and delete it. "dalemett" wrote: A former staff person created a letter to her son on the blank page, document1. We cannot get rid of this letter and recover the original blank page on opening the program or opening another blank page. I even removed the software and reinstalled several weeks later and it came back with the letter on opening the program. According to her there was no password used on the letter. |
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How do I delete a created document that reappears on the blank
Yes, I've done all the things you listed, but the original poster seemed to
be a fairly unsophisticated user (she didn't appear to know what Normal.dot was). I didn't think I would hurt her too much by having her delete it. Fred "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Normal.dot by default stores all your user customizations (macros, AutoText entries, formatted AutoCorrect entries, toolbar and menu customizations, style modifications, etc.). If you had customized Word as heavily as I have, you would be extremely fearful of losing Normal.dot (and careful to keep it backed up). If you just rename it, you can retrieve at least some of those customizations through the Organizer. And if turns out that Normal.dot was not the problem after all, you can delete the new one and revert to the old one. Are you saying that you have never added or deleted a toolbar button, created an AutoText entry, modified a style and saved these changes to Normal.dot? If so, you're either a very sophisticated user who stores everything in document templates and global add-ins, or you have barely scratched the surface of Word's possibilities. -- 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. "Idaho Word Man" wrote in message news Hi, Suzanne, I'm curious why you feel so strongly about this. I always thought that deleting the Normal.dot template was a fairly innocuous thing to do, since Word will automatically create a new Normal.dot next time you start. I must have been wrong, it seems. Fred "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: No! Not delete! Rename at most. -- 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. "Idaho Word Man" wrote in message ... That blank page that opens as Document1 is your Normal template. All you need to do is find the file called "Normal.dot" and delete it. "dalemett" wrote: A former staff person created a letter to her son on the blank page, document1. We cannot get rid of this letter and recover the original blank page on opening the program or opening another blank page. I even removed the software and reinstalled several weeks later and it came back with the letter on opening the program. According to her there was no password used on the letter. |
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The "unsophisticated user" who doesn't know what Normal.dot is is precisely
the one most likely to be dismayed when all her customizations are lost. If you don't know that these customizations are saved in Normal.dot, then you are less likely to be chary of deleting it, especially if someone authoritative-sounding tells you to. -- 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. "Idaho Word Man" wrote in message ... Yes, I've done all the things you listed, but the original poster seemed to be a fairly unsophisticated user (she didn't appear to know what Normal.dot was). I didn't think I would hurt her too much by having her delete it. Fred "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Normal.dot by default stores all your user customizations (macros, AutoText entries, formatted AutoCorrect entries, toolbar and menu customizations, style modifications, etc.). If you had customized Word as heavily as I have, you would be extremely fearful of losing Normal.dot (and careful to keep it backed up). If you just rename it, you can retrieve at least some of those customizations through the Organizer. And if turns out that Normal.dot was not the problem after all, you can delete the new one and revert to the old one. Are you saying that you have never added or deleted a toolbar button, created an AutoText entry, modified a style and saved these changes to Normal.dot? If so, you're either a very sophisticated user who stores everything in document templates and global add-ins, or you have barely scratched the surface of Word's possibilities. -- 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. "Idaho Word Man" wrote in message news Hi, Suzanne, I'm curious why you feel so strongly about this. I always thought that deleting the Normal.dot template was a fairly innocuous thing to do, since Word will automatically create a new Normal.dot next time you start. I must have been wrong, it seems. Fred "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: No! Not delete! Rename at most. -- 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. "Idaho Word Man" wrote in message ... That blank page that opens as Document1 is your Normal template. All you need to do is find the file called "Normal.dot" and delete it. "dalemett" wrote: A former staff person created a letter to her son on the blank page, document1. We cannot get rid of this letter and recover the original blank page on opening the program or opening another blank page. I even removed the software and reinstalled several weeks later and it came back with the letter on opening the program. According to her there was no password used on the letter. |
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