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Troubleshooting unwanted changes to Normal.doc/dot- from Outlook- please help!
I work in a corporate IT environment. We use Office2003 on WinXPsp2. I have
MS Word set up as my default email editor in MS Outlook. When I open outlook and close it without creating any emails (without accessing Word as the editor) I have no problems. When I open word and use it, then close it I have no problems. However, when I open Outlook and create any email (regardless of whether it is saved, etc.), then close Outlook (the individual email already having been sent, saved, or deleted) I get the following dialogue box: ------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft Office Word Changes have been made that affect the global template, Normal. Do you want to save those changes? [Show Help] [Yes] [No] [Cancel] ------------------------------------------------------------- {it really says "Normal." I would have expected it to say "Normal.dot", but maybe that pulls from the folder view setting where I hide known file extensions?} Regardless of my yes/no/cancel response, this dialogue box comes up every_single_time I close Outlook after using email. This is getting really annoying. I've confirmed that the normal.dot template is local (not shared on a server) by finding it in MS Office templates, deleting it, then opening Word and verifying that Word recreates it in that directory. Does anyone have any ideas what might cause Outlook to think it needs to change the normal template every time? Thank you, Keith |
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Troubleshooting unwanted changes to Normal.doc/dot- from Outlook- please help!
The default template is called Normal. Normal.dot is its filename.
The formatting requirements for Word documents and e-mail messages are entirely different and this will produce different toolbar configurations which Word sees as a change to Normal.dot that you may wish to save and gives you the opportunity to save them. The only alternative is to save them automatically, which you would find worse. The simple solution is not to use Word as e-mail editor. Outlook has a perfectly reasonable e-mail editor of its own. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "ker_01" wrote in message ... I work in a corporate IT environment. We use Office2003 on WinXPsp2. I have MS Word set up as my default email editor in MS Outlook. When I open outlook and close it without creating any emails (without accessing Word as the editor) I have no problems. When I open word and use it, then close it I have no problems. However, when I open Outlook and create any email (regardless of whether it is saved, etc.), then close Outlook (the individual email already having been sent, saved, or deleted) I get the following dialogue box: ------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft Office Word Changes have been made that affect the global template, Normal. Do you want to save those changes? [Show Help] [Yes] [No] [Cancel] ------------------------------------------------------------- {it really says "Normal." I would have expected it to say "Normal.dot", but maybe that pulls from the folder view setting where I hide known file extensions?} Regardless of my yes/no/cancel response, this dialogue box comes up every_single_time I close Outlook after using email. This is getting really annoying. I've confirmed that the normal.dot template is local (not shared on a server) by finding it in MS Office templates, deleting it, then opening Word and verifying that Word recreates it in that directory. Does anyone have any ideas what might cause Outlook to think it needs to change the normal template every time? Thank you, Keith |
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Where is the spell checker in the Outlook editor?
"Graham Mayor" wrote: ....The simple solution is not to use Word as e-mail editor. Outlook has a perfectly reasonable e-mail editor of its own. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "ker_01" wrote in message ... I work in a corporate IT environment. We use Office2003 on WinXPsp2. I have MS Word set up as my default email editor in MS Outlook. When I open outlook and close it without creating any emails (without accessing Word as the editor) I have no problems. When I open word and use it, then close it I have no problems. However, when I open Outlook and create any email (regardless of whether it is saved, etc.), then close Outlook (the individual email already having been sent, saved, or deleted) I get the following dialogue box: ------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft Office Word Changes have been made that affect the global template, Normal. Do you want to save those changes? [Show Help] [Yes] [No] [Cancel] ------------------------------------------------------------- {it really says "Normal." I would have expected it to say "Normal.dot", but maybe that pulls from the folder view setting where I hide known file extensions?} Regardless of my yes/no/cancel response, this dialogue box comes up every_single_time I close Outlook after using email. This is getting really annoying. I've confirmed that the normal.dot template is local (not shared on a server) by finding it in MS Office templates, deleting it, then opening Word and verifying that Word recreates it in that directory. Does anyone have any ideas what might cause Outlook to think it needs to change the normal template every time? Thank you, Keith |
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Troubleshooting unwanted changes to Normal.doc/dot- from Outlo
Tools Spelling or F7
or You can set up the option to automatically spell check before sending. Tools Options Spelling -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org DougS wrote: Where is the spell checker in the Outlook editor? "Graham Mayor" wrote: ....The simple solution is not to use Word as e-mail editor. Outlook has a perfectly reasonable e-mail editor of its own. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "ker_01" wrote in message ... I work in a corporate IT environment. We use Office2003 on WinXPsp2. I have MS Word set up as my default email editor in MS Outlook. When I open outlook and close it without creating any emails (without accessing Word as the editor) I have no problems. When I open word and use it, then close it I have no problems. However, when I open Outlook and create any email (regardless of whether it is saved, etc.), then close Outlook (the individual email already having been sent, saved, or deleted) I get the following dialogue box: ------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft Office Word Changes have been made that affect the global template, Normal. Do you want to save those changes? [Show Help] [Yes] [No] [Cancel] ------------------------------------------------------------- {it really says "Normal." I would have expected it to say "Normal.dot", but maybe that pulls from the folder view setting where I hide known file extensions?} Regardless of my yes/no/cancel response, this dialogue box comes up every_single_time I close Outlook after using email. This is getting really annoying. I've confirmed that the normal.dot template is local (not shared on a server) by finding it in MS Office templates, deleting it, then opening Word and verifying that Word recreates it in that directory. Does anyone have any ideas what might cause Outlook to think it needs to change the normal template every time? Thank you, Keith |
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Troubleshooting unwanted changes to Normal.doc/dot- from Outlo
Please accept my apologies. My question was tongue-in-cheek because while
setting up an email user recently we found that they had to use WOrd as the editor to gain access to the spellchecker features. Apparently that was on an earlier version of Outlook. I did notice however, that you lose the underline misspelled words and auto correct. If it aint one thing, it's another. Cheers. "Graham Mayor" wrote: Tools Spelling or F7 or You can set up the option to automatically spell check before sending. Tools Options Spelling -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org DougS wrote: Where is the spell checker in the Outlook editor? "Graham Mayor" wrote: ....The simple solution is not to use Word as e-mail editor. Outlook has a perfectly reasonable e-mail editor of its own. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "ker_01" wrote in message ... I work in a corporate IT environment. We use Office2003 on WinXPsp2. I have MS Word set up as my default email editor in MS Outlook. When I open outlook and close it without creating any emails (without accessing Word as the editor) I have no problems. When I open word and use it, then close it I have no problems. However, when I open Outlook and create any email (regardless of whether it is saved, etc.), then close Outlook (the individual email already having been sent, saved, or deleted) I get the following dialogue box: ------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft Office Word Changes have been made that affect the global template, Normal. Do you want to save those changes? [Show Help] [Yes] [No] [Cancel] ------------------------------------------------------------- {it really says "Normal." I would have expected it to say "Normal.dot", but maybe that pulls from the folder view setting where I hide known file extensions?} Regardless of my yes/no/cancel response, this dialogue box comes up every_single_time I close Outlook after using email. This is getting really annoying. I've confirmed that the normal.dot template is local (not shared on a server) by finding it in MS Office templates, deleting it, then opening Word and verifying that Word recreates it in that directory. Does anyone have any ideas what might cause Outlook to think it needs to change the normal template every time? Thank you, Keith |
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