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I sync many of my Word documents with a Palm via Docs to Go, and the process
insists on trying to change the version of English, resulting in Word asking me if I want to save changes to normal.dot every time I close it. In fact I don't want it messing with it, as I have it set to NZ English, and it tries to change it to US English every time. At the moment I just tell it no each time, but is there a way to lock the normal.dot so that nothing can mess with it? I have several macros, page size, margins, default font, and language, all set to what I want, and would like it to stay that way. Would making it read only do the trick, or something else please? Thanks very much. -- Peter in New Zealand. (Pull the plug out to reply.) Collector of old cameras, tropical fish fancier, good coffee nutter, and compulsive computer fiddler. |
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Hi Peter,
I sync many of my Word documents with a Palm via Docs to Go, and the process insists on trying to change the version of English, resulting in Word asking me if I want to save changes to normal.dot every time I close it. In fact I don't want it messing with it, as I have it set to NZ English, and it tries to change it to US English every time. At the moment I just tell it no each time, but is there a way to lock the normal.dot so that nothing can mess with it? I have several macros, page size, margins, default font, and language, all set to what I want, and would like it to stay that way. Would making it read only do the trick, or something else please? Thanks very much. Theoretically, you could change the Read-Only file property (right-click in Windows Explorer). That might cause other, regularly appearing error messages, however. You should contact the company that provides Docs to Go and tell them you don't like them messing with your Normal.dot. It's rude :-) And there are people in the world who don't use US English. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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"Cindy M." wrote in message news:VA.00000c83.00c2c311@speedy... Hi Peter, I sync many of my Word documents with a Palm via Docs to Go, and the process insists on trying to change the version of English, resulting in Word asking me if I want to save changes to normal.dot every time I close it. In fact I don't want it messing with it, as I have it set to NZ English, and it tries to change it to US English every time. At the moment I just tell it no each time, but is there a way to lock the normal.dot so that nothing can mess with it? I have several macros, page size, margins, default font, and language, all set to what I want, and would like it to stay that way. Would making it read only do the trick, or something else please? Thanks very much. Theoretically, you could change the Read-Only file property (right-click in Windows Explorer). That might cause other, regularly appearing error messages, however. You should contact the company that provides Docs to Go and tell them you don't like them messing with your Normal.dot. It's rude :-) And there are people in the world who don't use US English. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Thank you for your thoughts Cindy. I agree about it being rude to mess with my normal.dot! After all the work getting things just how I want them - arrrgh! I have set the read only attribute, and it seems to keep it safe, although I have to dispose of an error window every time I close Word. I can live with that if I have to. I did post this issue on DataViz's forums, but never got a reply. Unfortunately, as my Palm is an older model, the latest version of Docs2Go that will run on it is a year or so old. They kindly keep it available for download for old guffers like me (at a price of course), but don't offer any "real" tech support for it apart from the forums. Ah well (sigh). Apart from that Dogs2Go is outstandingly reliable software, so I guess I'll stick with it unless anyone can offer any other suggestions. I do quite a lot of document work on the Palm using a folding keyboard - sort of poor man's laptop! grin Anyway, thank's again for taking the time to reply. -- Peter in New Zealand. (Pull the plug out to reply.) Collector of old cameras, tropical fish fancier, good coffee nutter, and compulsive computer fiddler. |
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Hi Peter,
Thank you for your thoughts Cindy. I agree about it being rude to mess with my normal.dot! After all the work getting things just how I want them - arrrgh! I have set the read only attribute, and it seems to keep it safe, although I have to dispose of an error window every time I close Word. I can live with that if I have to. I did post this issue on DataViz's forums, but never got a reply. Unfortunately, as my Palm is an older model, the latest version of Docs2Go that will run on it is a year or so old. They kindly keep it available for download for old guffers like me (at a price of course), but don't offer any "real" tech support for it apart from the forums. Ah. I was thinking through various macro scenarios, whether there was any way you could avoid the "simple" (read-only) route, but things get very complicated very quickly. If you "never" make changes to Normal.dot (or would only make them when you know you haven't synched), you could avoid the issue by simply telling Word there aren't any changes to be saved (little macro). The dangerous part is, you might discard changes you want to keep. Or, if you decide to force the save, you might saved synched changes you don't want. Just to let you know there is an alternative :-) Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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"Cindy M." wrote in message news:VA.00000ca4.019a73ce@speedy... Hi Peter, Thank you for your thoughts Cindy. I agree about it being rude to mess with my normal.dot! After all the work getting things just how I want them - arrrgh! I have set the read only attribute, and it seems to keep it safe, although I have to dispose of an error window every time I close Word. I can live with that if I have to. I did post this issue on DataViz's forums, but never got a reply. Unfortunately, as my Palm is an older model, the latest version of Docs2Go that will run on it is a year or so old. They kindly keep it available for download for old guffers like me (at a price of course), but don't offer any "real" tech support for it apart from the forums. Ah. I was thinking through various macro scenarios, whether there was any way you could avoid the "simple" (read-only) route, but things get very complicated very quickly. If you "never" make changes to Normal.dot (or would only make them when you know you haven't synched), you could avoid the issue by simply telling Word there aren't any changes to be saved (little macro). The dangerous part is, you might discard changes you want to keep. Or, if you decide to force the save, you might saved synched changes you don't want. Just to let you know there is an alternative :-) Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Yes, I can see how traps and pit falls could develop in that scenario. It's not that I don't appreciate Word - I have used it since ver. 6 days, then 97, then 2000. But, believe it or not (slight OT alert here) I have found that the more basic word processor Jarte, which is based on the Wordpad engine, is doing everything I need, and, using rtf format the files race to and fro between the computer and the Palm with nary a glitch. Mind you, it took a while to find it. Some of the "simpler" level of wp programs work better or worse than others with Docs to Go, and some that look very promising are utter disasters with it - not their fault of course. FWIW Jarte is now in the final beta stages of release 3, and looks to be a pretty good piece of software within the limitations of that level of word processing of course. Anyway, I just thought I would mention it here - sort of "tying off the thread" I suppose. My thanks to you good folk who responded to my original question - I appreciate your time and the fact that the huge level of experience and knowledge here is offered completely voluntarily. Kind regards, Peter -- Peter in New Zealand. (Pull the plug out to reply.) Collector of old cameras, tropical fish fancier, good coffee nutter, and compulsive computer fiddler. |
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