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Hi,
I have are a couple of problems with Word 2007. When I open Word 2007, it comes out with the word "Okay" on each blank page document and I do not know how to get it back to a blank page each time it is opened. Can anybody tell me how to get rid of the writing and just have a blank document again every time I open it? The second problem I have with Word 2007 is, every time I try to cut and paste anything into it, only part of the document I am pasting into it shows up. Can you help me rectify this please? I have tried back up and restoring, but this did not work. I will admit I downloaded a program to work directly within Word and I had to use the "add in's" within Word so that the program worked within it but I got rid of that program in the end and did a backup and restore. Before I installed that program, I could cut and paste anything into Word with no problems. Has anybody got any ideas on how I get it back to where I can cut and paste again in a word document? Cheers Wendy |
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"Wendy" wrote in message ... Hi, I have are a couple of problems with Word 2007. When I open Word 2007, it comes out with the word "Okay" on each blank page document and I do not know how to get it back to a blank page each time it is opened. Can anybody tell me how to get rid of the writing and just have a blank document again every time I open it? Have a look he http://word.mvps.org/fAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm |
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Thanks Gordon, I fathomed how to get a blank page again through the Website
you gave me but I am still having problems with the cut and pasting scenario. I looked on that website you gave me, but I could not see anywhere on it that tells me how to rectify this problem. Just to recap, in Word 2007, if I try to cut and paste any document or file into a Word document, it only shows part of the document pasted into Word. This never use to happen before and I had no trouble doing this. Can anybody tell me how I get my Word 2007 back to the status quo so I can then cut and paste documents or files into it like I could before? Wendy "Gordon" wrote in message ... "Wendy" wrote in message ... Hi, I have are a couple of problems with Word 2007. When I open Word 2007, it comes out with the word "Okay" on each blank page document and I do not know how to get it back to a blank page each time it is opened. Can anybody tell me how to get rid of the writing and just have a blank document again every time I open it? Have a look he http://word.mvps.org/fAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm |
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It sounds like Word was left running whilst this week's updates installed
which corrupted the Word Data Key. You need to run Regedit and navigate to the key and whilst DATA is selected, press DELETE. Word will create a new key when you restart. Word data Key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\W ord\Data -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Wendy" wrote in message ... Thanks Gordon, I fathomed how to get a blank page again through the Website you gave me but I am still having problems with the cut and pasting scenario. I looked on that website you gave me, but I could not see anywhere on it that tells me how to rectify this problem. Just to recap, in Word 2007, if I try to cut and paste any document or file into a Word document, it only shows part of the document pasted into Word. This never use to happen before and I had no trouble doing this. Can anybody tell me how I get my Word 2007 back to the status quo so I can then cut and paste documents or files into it like I could before? Wendy "Gordon" wrote in message ... "Wendy" wrote in message ... Hi, I have are a couple of problems with Word 2007. When I open Word 2007, it comes out with the word "Okay" on each blank page document and I do not know how to get it back to a blank page each time it is opened. Can anybody tell me how to get rid of the writing and just have a blank document again every time I open it? Have a look he http://word.mvps.org/fAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm |
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Thanks Terry for the advice, it sounds a bit complicated but I will have a
look. W. "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... It sounds like Word was left running whilst this week's updates installed which corrupted the Word Data Key. You need to run Regedit and navigate to the key and whilst DATA is selected, press DELETE. Word will create a new key when you restart. Word data Key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\W ord\Data -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Wendy" wrote in message ... Thanks Gordon, I fathomed how to get a blank page again through the Website you gave me but I am still having problems with the cut and pasting scenario. I looked on that website you gave me, but I could not see anywhere on it that tells me how to rectify this problem. Just to recap, in Word 2007, if I try to cut and paste any document or file into a Word document, it only shows part of the document pasted into Word. This never use to happen before and I had no trouble doing this. Can anybody tell me how I get my Word 2007 back to the status quo so I can then cut and paste documents or files into it like I could before? Wendy "Gordon" wrote in message ... "Wendy" wrote in message ... Hi, I have are a couple of problems with Word 2007. When I open Word 2007, it comes out with the word "Okay" on each blank page document and I do not know how to get it back to a blank page each time it is opened. Can anybody tell me how to get rid of the writing and just have a blank document again every time I open it? Have a look he http://word.mvps.org/fAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm |
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It's not difficult. Open the Run Dialog (WinKey+R) or use Start and select
RUN. Now type in regedit and press enter. That opens the registry editor. Then double-click on each item which will progressively take you to the Data key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Microsoft Office 12.0 Word Then single click on DATA to select it: press your DELETE key. Close the registry editor and restart Word. Terry "Wendy" wrote in message ... Thanks Terry for the advice, it sounds a bit complicated but I will have a look. W. "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... It sounds like Word was left running whilst this week's updates installed which corrupted the Word Data Key. You need to run Regedit and navigate to the key and whilst DATA is selected, press DELETE. Word will create a new key when you restart. Word data Key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\W ord\Data -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Wendy" wrote in message ... Thanks Gordon, I fathomed how to get a blank page again through the Website you gave me but I am still having problems with the cut and pasting scenario. I looked on that website you gave me, but I could not see anywhere on it that tells me how to rectify this problem. Just to recap, in Word 2007, if I try to cut and paste any document or file into a Word document, it only shows part of the document pasted into Word. This never use to happen before and I had no trouble doing this. Can anybody tell me how I get my Word 2007 back to the status quo so I can then cut and paste documents or files into it like I could before? Wendy "Gordon" wrote in message ... "Wendy" wrote in message ... Hi, I have are a couple of problems with Word 2007. When I open Word 2007, it comes out with the word "Okay" on each blank page document and I do not know how to get it back to a blank page each time it is opened. Can anybody tell me how to get rid of the writing and just have a blank document again every time I open it? Have a look he http://word.mvps.org/fAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm |
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It's not difficult. Open the Run Dialog (WinKey+R) or use Start and select
RUN. Now type in regedit and press enter. That opens the registry editor. Yes I did that and the registry editor opened In registry editor, I clicked on "Word""Data" and on the right hand side of "Data" there were three items: - 1. ab (default) REG_SZ 2. 011 then underneath it says 100 then it says Settings, REG_BINARY ba 00 72 30 01 00 00 96 01 00 00 04 00 00 00 1e... 3. 011 then underneath it says 100 then it says Toolbars, REG_BINARY 4a 00 00 00 a0 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 Then double-click on each item which will progressively take you to the Data key: I did that and on each one I double clicked on the first one as shown above and it brought up a small window which was titled "Edit String" then it said "Value Name" (default) than it said "Value Data" which showed a slim window with no writing in it, and I just clicked "OK" I double clicked on the second one (Settings) that brought up the settings configuration which showed a lot of binary numbers, then again I clicked "OK" Ditto with the third one (Toolbars) HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Microsoft Office 12.0 Word Then single click on DATA to select it: press your DELETE key. This is where I got lost Terry, I couldn't fathom out what you meant, anyway I tried the cut and paste thing again and that it is still the same and it is only putting the very last piece of the picture in the word document just as it did before. I am sorry, I am such a novice, perhaps you could explain it again in layman terms for me as I am worried about pressing the wrong thing. Thanks Terry W. "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... It's not difficult. Open the Run Dialog (WinKey+R) or use Start and select RUN. Now type in regedit and press enter. That opens the registry editor. Then double-click on each item which will progressively take you to the Data key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Microsoft Office 12.0 Word Then single click on DATA to select it: press your DELETE key. Close the registry editor and restart Word. Terry "Wendy" wrote in message ... Thanks Terry for the advice, it sounds a bit complicated but I will have a look. W. "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... It sounds like Word was left running whilst this week's updates installed which corrupted the Word Data Key. You need to run Regedit and navigate to the key and whilst DATA is selected, press DELETE. Word will create a new key when you restart. Word data Key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\W ord\Data -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Wendy" wrote in message ... Thanks Gordon, I fathomed how to get a blank page again through the Website you gave me but I am still having problems with the cut and pasting scenario. I looked on that website you gave me, but I could not see anywhere on it that tells me how to rectify this problem. Just to recap, in Word 2007, if I try to cut and paste any document or file into a Word document, it only shows part of the document pasted into Word. This never use to happen before and I had no trouble doing this. Can anybody tell me how I get my Word 2007 back to the status quo so I can then cut and paste documents or files into it like I could before? Wendy "Gordon" wrote in message ... "Wendy" wrote in message ... Hi, I have are a couple of problems with Word 2007. When I open Word 2007, it comes out with the word "Okay" on each blank page document and I do not know how to get it back to a blank page each time it is opened. Can anybody tell me how to get rid of the writing and just have a blank document again every time I open it? Have a look he http://word.mvps.org/fAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm |
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Select the word "Data" and delete it.
-- 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, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Wendy" wrote in message ... It's not difficult. Open the Run Dialog (WinKey+R) or use Start and select RUN. Now type in regedit and press enter. That opens the registry editor. Yes I did that and the registry editor opened In registry editor, I clicked on "Word""Data" and on the right hand side of "Data" there were three items: - 1. ab (default) REG_SZ 2. 011 then underneath it says 100 then it says Settings, REG_BINARY ba 00 72 30 01 00 00 96 01 00 00 04 00 00 00 1e... 3. 011 then underneath it says 100 then it says Toolbars, REG_BINARY 4a 00 00 00 a0 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 Then double-click on each item which will progressively take you to the Data key: I did that and on each one I double clicked on the first one as shown above and it brought up a small window which was titled "Edit String" then it said "Value Name" (default) than it said "Value Data" which showed a slim window with no writing in it, and I just clicked "OK" I double clicked on the second one (Settings) that brought up the settings configuration which showed a lot of binary numbers, then again I clicked "OK" Ditto with the third one (Toolbars) HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Microsoft Office 12.0 Word Then single click on DATA to select it: press your DELETE key. This is where I got lost Terry, I couldn't fathom out what you meant, anyway I tried the cut and paste thing again and that it is still the same and it is only putting the very last piece of the picture in the word document just as it did before. I am sorry, I am such a novice, perhaps you could explain it again in layman terms for me as I am worried about pressing the wrong thing. Thanks Terry W. "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... It's not difficult. Open the Run Dialog (WinKey+R) or use Start and select RUN. Now type in regedit and press enter. That opens the registry editor. Then double-click on each item which will progressively take you to the Data key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Microsoft Office 12.0 Word Then single click on DATA to select it: press your DELETE key. Close the registry editor and restart Word. Terry "Wendy" wrote in message ... Thanks Terry for the advice, it sounds a bit complicated but I will have a look. W. "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... It sounds like Word was left running whilst this week's updates installed which corrupted the Word Data Key. You need to run Regedit and navigate to the key and whilst DATA is selected, press DELETE. Word will create a new key when you restart. Word data Key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\W ord\Data -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Wendy" wrote in message ... Thanks Gordon, I fathomed how to get a blank page again through the Website you gave me but I am still having problems with the cut and pasting scenario. I looked on that website you gave me, but I could not see anywhere on it that tells me how to rectify this problem. Just to recap, in Word 2007, if I try to cut and paste any document or file into a Word document, it only shows part of the document pasted into Word. This never use to happen before and I had no trouble doing this. Can anybody tell me how I get my Word 2007 back to the status quo so I can then cut and paste documents or files into it like I could before? Wendy "Gordon" wrote in message ... "Wendy" wrote in message ... Hi, I have are a couple of problems with Word 2007. When I open Word 2007, it comes out with the word "Okay" on each blank page document and I do not know how to get it back to a blank page each time it is opened. Can anybody tell me how to get rid of the writing and just have a blank document again every time I open it? Have a look he http://word.mvps.org/fAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm |
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Why are you double-clicking anything in the right hand pane? My final
instruction was... "Then single click on DATA to select it: press your DELETE key" Nowhere did I say double-click anything in the right hand pane. Don't over-complicate this. Just select DATA and press DELETE (on your keyboard). Terry "Wendy" wrote in message ... It's not difficult. Open the Run Dialog (WinKey+R) or use Start and select RUN. Now type in regedit and press enter. That opens the registry editor. Yes I did that and the registry editor opened In registry editor, I clicked on "Word""Data" and on the right hand side of "Data" there were three items: - 1. ab (default) REG_SZ 2. 011 then underneath it says 100 then it says Settings, REG_BINARY ba 00 72 30 01 00 00 96 01 00 00 04 00 00 00 1e... 3. 011 then underneath it says 100 then it says Toolbars, REG_BINARY 4a 00 00 00 a0 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 Then double-click on each item which will progressively take you to the Data key: I did that and on each one I double clicked on the first one as shown above and it brought up a small window which was titled "Edit String" then it said "Value Name" (default) than it said "Value Data" which showed a slim window with no writing in it, and I just clicked "OK" I double clicked on the second one (Settings) that brought up the settings configuration which showed a lot of binary numbers, then again I clicked "OK" Ditto with the third one (Toolbars) HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Microsoft Office 12.0 Word Then single click on DATA to select it: press your DELETE key. This is where I got lost Terry, I couldn't fathom out what you meant, anyway I tried the cut and paste thing again and that it is still the same and it is only putting the very last piece of the picture in the word document just as it did before. I am sorry, I am such a novice, perhaps you could explain it again in layman terms for me as I am worried about pressing the wrong thing. Thanks Terry W. "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... It's not difficult. Open the Run Dialog (WinKey+R) or use Start and select RUN. Now type in regedit and press enter. That opens the registry editor. Then double-click on each item which will progressively take you to the Data key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Microsoft Office 12.0 Word Then single click on DATA to select it: press your DELETE key. Close the registry editor and restart Word. Terry "Wendy" wrote in message ... Thanks Terry for the advice, it sounds a bit complicated but I will have a look. W. "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... It sounds like Word was left running whilst this week's updates installed which corrupted the Word Data Key. You need to run Regedit and navigate to the key and whilst DATA is selected, press DELETE. Word will create a new key when you restart. Word data Key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\W ord\Data -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Wendy" wrote in message ... Thanks Gordon, I fathomed how to get a blank page again through the Website you gave me but I am still having problems with the cut and pasting scenario. I looked on that website you gave me, but I could not see anywhere on it that tells me how to rectify this problem. Just to recap, in Word 2007, if I try to cut and paste any document or file into a Word document, it only shows part of the document pasted into Word. This never use to happen before and I had no trouble doing this. Can anybody tell me how I get my Word 2007 back to the status quo so I can then cut and paste documents or files into it like I could before? Wendy "Gordon" wrote in message ... "Wendy" wrote in message ... Hi, I have are a couple of problems with Word 2007. When I open Word 2007, it comes out with the word "Okay" on each blank page document and I do not know how to get it back to a blank page each time it is opened. Can anybody tell me how to get rid of the writing and just have a blank document again every time I open it? Have a look he http://word.mvps.org/fAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm |
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I went into the registry, but I did not change anything within there, so no
damage has appeared. All I have done now, is exactly what you have asked me to do which is to delete "Data" in "Word" within the registry. I have done this three times and rebooted three times and after deleting the "Data" each time, it comes back when I reboot thus, still leaving the problem. Can you think what else it could be? Thank you W. "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... Why are you double-clicking anything in the right hand pane? My final instruction was... "Then single click on DATA to select it: press your DELETE key" Nowhere did I say double-click anything in the right hand pane. Don't over-complicate this. Just select DATA and press DELETE (on your keyboard). Terry "Wendy" wrote in message ... It's not difficult. Open the Run Dialog (WinKey+R) or use Start and select RUN. Now type in regedit and press enter. That opens the registry editor. Yes I did that and the registry editor opened In registry editor, I clicked on "Word""Data" and on the right hand side of "Data" there were three items: - 1. ab (default) REG_SZ 2. 011 then underneath it says 100 then it says Settings, REG_BINARY ba 00 72 30 01 00 00 96 01 00 00 04 00 00 00 1e... 3. 011 then underneath it says 100 then it says Toolbars, REG_BINARY 4a 00 00 00 a0 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 Then double-click on each item which will progressively take you to the Data key: I did that and on each one I double clicked on the first one as shown above and it brought up a small window which was titled "Edit String" then it said "Value Name" (default) than it said "Value Data" which showed a slim window with no writing in it, and I just clicked "OK" I double clicked on the second one (Settings) that brought up the settings configuration which showed a lot of binary numbers, then again I clicked "OK" Ditto with the third one (Toolbars) HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Microsoft Office 12.0 Word Then single click on DATA to select it: press your DELETE key. This is where I got lost Terry, I couldn't fathom out what you meant, anyway I tried the cut and paste thing again and that it is still the same and it is only putting the very last piece of the picture in the word document just as it did before. I am sorry, I am such a novice, perhaps you could explain it again in layman terms for me as I am worried about pressing the wrong thing. Thanks Terry W. "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... It's not difficult. Open the Run Dialog (WinKey+R) or use Start and select RUN. Now type in regedit and press enter. That opens the registry editor. Then double-click on each item which will progressively take you to the Data key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER Software Microsoft Office 12.0 Word Then single click on DATA to select it: press your DELETE key. Close the registry editor and restart Word. Terry "Wendy" wrote in message ... Thanks Terry for the advice, it sounds a bit complicated but I will have a look. W. "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... It sounds like Word was left running whilst this week's updates installed which corrupted the Word Data Key. You need to run Regedit and navigate to the key and whilst DATA is selected, press DELETE. Word will create a new key when you restart. Word data Key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\W ord\Data -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Wendy" wrote in message ... Thanks Gordon, I fathomed how to get a blank page again through the Website you gave me but I am still having problems with the cut and pasting scenario. I looked on that website you gave me, but I could not see anywhere on it that tells me how to rectify this problem. Just to recap, in Word 2007, if I try to cut and paste any document or file into a Word document, it only shows part of the document pasted into Word. This never use to happen before and I had no trouble doing this. Can anybody tell me how I get my Word 2007 back to the status quo so I can then cut and paste documents or files into it like I could before? Wendy "Gordon" wrote in message ... "Wendy" wrote in message ... Hi, I have are a couple of problems with Word 2007. When I open Word 2007, it comes out with the word "Okay" on each blank page document and I do not know how to get it back to a blank page each time it is opened. Can anybody tell me how to get rid of the writing and just have a blank document again every time I open it? Have a look he http://word.mvps.org/fAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm |
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That is correct reaction: when the Data Key is deleted, it is automatically
recreated when Word is restarted (but it will be fresh and uncorrupted). To resolve the other part of the problem, you need to find normal.dotm and rename it normal.bad. Presuming you are using Word 2007 in Vista, you will find the file in: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templa tes With Word closed, use Windows Explorer to get to the Templates folder above, select normal.dotm, right-click and choose Rename; then change it to normal.bad. Whilst in that folder, if you see ANY templates or files starting with a ~ character, delete them. Now test Word again. Terry "Wendy" wrote in message ... I went into the registry, but I did not change anything within there, so no damage has appeared. All I have done now, is exactly what you have asked me to do which is to delete "Data" in "Word" within the registry. I have done this three times and rebooted three times and after deleting the "Data" each time, it comes back when I reboot thus, still leaving the problem. Can you think what else it could be? Thank you W. |
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Brilliant Terry!!! Thank you very much indeed! It now works perfectly.
Just one thing, renaming the normal.dotm to normal.bad has left a file there in templates as a blank piece of paper with the filename "normal.bad" and created a new normal.dotm which I assume is the new uncorrupted file. What do I do with the normal.bad blank piece of paper file, do I delete it or just leave it there? I checked all the other templates and there were no others there with the ~ character. Thank you so much for your patience and help. W. "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... That is correct reaction: when the Data Key is deleted, it is automatically recreated when Word is restarted (but it will be fresh and uncorrupted). To resolve the other part of the problem, you need to find normal.dotm and rename it normal.bad. Presuming you are using Word 2007 in Vista, you will find the file in: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templa tes With Word closed, use Windows Explorer to get to the Templates folder above, select normal.dotm, right-click and choose Rename; then change it to normal.bad. Whilst in that folder, if you see ANY templates or files starting with a ~ character, delete them. Now test Word again. Terry "Wendy" wrote in message ... I went into the registry, but I did not change anything within there, so no damage has appeared. All I have done now, is exactly what you have asked me to do which is to delete "Data" in "Word" within the registry. I have done this three times and rebooted three times and after deleting the "Data" each time, it comes back when I reboot thus, still leaving the problem. Can you think what else it could be? Thank you W. |
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We recommend renaming rather than deleting as normal.dotm sometimes stores
special user create macros and styles which can be copied to the normal.bad to the normal.dotm using the Oganizer. If you ignore it for a few session until you are happy that nothing is missing, then delete it. Terry "Wendy" wrote in message ... Brilliant Terry!!! Thank you very much indeed! It now works perfectly. Just one thing, renaming the normal.dotm to normal.bad has left a file there in templates as a blank piece of paper with the filename "normal.bad" and created a new normal.dotm which I assume is the new uncorrupted file. What do I do with the normal.bad blank piece of paper file, do I delete it or just leave it there? I checked all the other templates and there were no others there with the ~ character. Thank you so much for your patience and help. W. "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... That is correct reaction: when the Data Key is deleted, it is automatically recreated when Word is restarted (but it will be fresh and uncorrupted). To resolve the other part of the problem, you need to find normal.dotm and rename it normal.bad. Presuming you are using Word 2007 in Vista, you will find the file in: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templa tes With Word closed, use Windows Explorer to get to the Templates folder above, select normal.dotm, right-click and choose Rename; then change it to normal.bad. Whilst in that folder, if you see ANY templates or files starting with a ~ character, delete them. Now test Word again. Terry "Wendy" wrote in message ... I went into the registry, but I did not change anything within there, so no damage has appeared. All I have done now, is exactly what you have asked me to do which is to delete "Data" in "Word" within the registry. I have done this three times and rebooted three times and after deleting the "Data" each time, it comes back when I reboot thus, still leaving the problem. Can you think what else it could be? Thank you W. |
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Will do Terry, once again thanks for all your help :-))
"Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... We recommend renaming rather than deleting as normal.dotm sometimes stores special user create macros and styles which can be copied to the normal.bad to the normal.dotm using the Oganizer. If you ignore it for a few session until you are happy that nothing is missing, then delete it. Terry "Wendy" wrote in message ... Brilliant Terry!!! Thank you very much indeed! It now works perfectly. Just one thing, renaming the normal.dotm to normal.bad has left a file there in templates as a blank piece of paper with the filename "normal.bad" and created a new normal.dotm which I assume is the new uncorrupted file. What do I do with the normal.bad blank piece of paper file, do I delete it or just leave it there? I checked all the other templates and there were no others there with the ~ character. Thank you so much for your patience and help. W. "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... That is correct reaction: when the Data Key is deleted, it is automatically recreated when Word is restarted (but it will be fresh and uncorrupted). To resolve the other part of the problem, you need to find normal.dotm and rename it normal.bad. Presuming you are using Word 2007 in Vista, you will find the file in: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templa tes With Word closed, use Windows Explorer to get to the Templates folder above, select normal.dotm, right-click and choose Rename; then change it to normal.bad. Whilst in that folder, if you see ANY templates or files starting with a ~ character, delete them. Now test Word again. Terry "Wendy" wrote in message ... I went into the registry, but I did not change anything within there, so no damage has appeared. All I have done now, is exactly what you have asked me to do which is to delete "Data" in "Word" within the registry. I have done this three times and rebooted three times and after deleting the "Data" each time, it comes back when I reboot thus, still leaving the problem. Can you think what else it could be? Thank you W. |
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Terry, may I ask another question please.
I am not going to tamper with this, so do not panic, these are just only questions. Am I right in saying that, if I select the normal.dotm word file from templates from within the office button and I change such things as "line spacing" or "change curly quotes to straight quotes" or any other such variation and I save it afterwards, does that mean that every subsequent word document I open will automatically have those changes in them? If so, would I also be right in saying that I should make a separate template in "Templates" specifically with these changes in them for that use? You may or may not know this but being a Microsoft Word expert, would you happen to know the exact format within a word document that professional writers and author's use generally? That includes all the punctuation, line spacing, font and anything else there is to know for the general formatting of a manuscipt? It does not matter if you do not know, I was just wondering if you did? W. "Wendy" wrote in message ... Will do Terry, once again thanks for all your help :-)) "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... We recommend renaming rather than deleting as normal.dotm sometimes stores special user create macros and styles which can be copied to the normal.bad to the normal.dotm using the Oganizer. If you ignore it for a few session until you are happy that nothing is missing, then delete it. Terry "Wendy" wrote in message ... Brilliant Terry!!! Thank you very much indeed! It now works perfectly. Just one thing, renaming the normal.dotm to normal.bad has left a file there in templates as a blank piece of paper with the filename "normal.bad" and created a new normal.dotm which I assume is the new uncorrupted file. What do I do with the normal.bad blank piece of paper file, do I delete it or just leave it there? I checked all the other templates and there were no others there with the ~ character. Thank you so much for your patience and help. W. "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... That is correct reaction: when the Data Key is deleted, it is automatically recreated when Word is restarted (but it will be fresh and uncorrupted). To resolve the other part of the problem, you need to find normal.dotm and rename it normal.bad. Presuming you are using Word 2007 in Vista, you will find the file in: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templa tes With Word closed, use Windows Explorer to get to the Templates folder above, select normal.dotm, right-click and choose Rename; then change it to normal.bad. Whilst in that folder, if you see ANY templates or files starting with a ~ character, delete them. Now test Word again. Terry "Wendy" wrote in message ... I went into the registry, but I did not change anything within there, so no damage has appeared. All I have done now, is exactly what you have asked me to do which is to delete "Data" in "Word" within the registry. I have done this three times and rebooted three times and after deleting the "Data" each time, it comes back when I reboot thus, still leaving the problem. Can you think what else it could be? Thank you W. |
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Many changes can be made permanently by editing normal.dotm. However, many
of the changes that you want to make can be done through the dialogs in Word - such as page settings, font set, paragraph spacing, line spacing, etc. and that is the easiest and safest way to change them (minimal risk of corrupting normal.dotm). Those examples can all be done in the Font and Paragraph dialogs by pressing the DEFAULT button in the dialogs after making the changes. Curly quotes (Smart Quotes) can be toggled off in the AutoCorrect Options dialog (Word Options | Proofing tab). However, most of these settings will only work for new document and not for existing documents. If you need to change existing documents, then this can be done in various ways dependant on the changes: attaching a new template to a document, running a Find & Replace or using a macro are some of the tools. But in the long-term, creating your own templates is often the best method because some changes to normal.dot (such as adding a header or footer, for example) can have unforeseen consequences with other Word functions. Terry "Wendy" wrote in message ... Terry, may I ask another question please. I am not going to tamper with this, so do not panic, these are just only questions. Am I right in saying that, if I select the normal.dotm word file from templates from within the office button and I change such things as "line spacing" or "change curly quotes to straight quotes" or any other such variation and I save it afterwards, does that mean that every subsequent word document I open will automatically have those changes in them? If so, would I also be right in saying that I should make a separate template in "Templates" specifically with these changes in them for that use? You may or may not know this but being a Microsoft Word expert, would you happen to know the exact format within a word document that professional writers and author's use generally? That includes all the punctuation, line spacing, font and anything else there is to know for the general formatting of a manuscipt? It does not matter if you do not know, I was just wondering if you did? W. "Wendy" wrote in message ... Will do Terry, once again thanks for all your help :-)) "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... We recommend renaming rather than deleting as normal.dotm sometimes stores special user create macros and styles which can be copied to the normal.bad to the normal.dotm using the Oganizer. If you ignore it for a few session until you are happy that nothing is missing, then delete it. Terry "Wendy" wrote in message ... Brilliant Terry!!! Thank you very much indeed! It now works perfectly. Just one thing, renaming the normal.dotm to normal.bad has left a file there in templates as a blank piece of paper with the filename "normal.bad" and created a new normal.dotm which I assume is the new uncorrupted file. What do I do with the normal.bad blank piece of paper file, do I delete it or just leave it there? I checked all the other templates and there were no others there with the ~ character. Thank you so much for your patience and help. W. "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... That is correct reaction: when the Data Key is deleted, it is automatically recreated when Word is restarted (but it will be fresh and uncorrupted). To resolve the other part of the problem, you need to find normal.dotm and rename it normal.bad. Presuming you are using Word 2007 in Vista, you will find the file in: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templa tes With Word closed, use Windows Explorer to get to the Templates folder above, select normal.dotm, right-click and choose Rename; then change it to normal.bad. Whilst in that folder, if you see ANY templates or files starting with a ~ character, delete them. Now test Word again. Terry "Wendy" wrote in message ... I went into the registry, but I did not change anything within there, so no damage has appeared. All I have done now, is exactly what you have asked me to do which is to delete "Data" in "Word" within the registry. I have done this three times and rebooted three times and after deleting the "Data" each time, it comes back when I reboot thus, still leaving the problem. Can you think what else it could be? Thank you W. |
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Okay Terry, that's exactly what I thought. Thanks for all the advice.
W. "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... Many changes can be made permanently by editing normal.dotm. However, many of the changes that you want to make can be done through the dialogs in Word - such as page settings, font set, paragraph spacing, line spacing, etc. and that is the easiest and safest way to change them (minimal risk of corrupting normal.dotm). Those examples can all be done in the Font and Paragraph dialogs by pressing the DEFAULT button in the dialogs after making the changes. Curly quotes (Smart Quotes) can be toggled off in the AutoCorrect Options dialog (Word Options | Proofing tab). However, most of these settings will only work for new document and not for existing documents. If you need to change existing documents, then this can be done in various ways dependant on the changes: attaching a new template to a document, running a Find & Replace or using a macro are some of the tools. But in the long-term, creating your own templates is often the best method because some changes to normal.dot (such as adding a header or footer, for example) can have unforeseen consequences with other Word functions. Terry "Wendy" wrote in message ... Terry, may I ask another question please. I am not going to tamper with this, so do not panic, these are just only questions. Am I right in saying that, if I select the normal.dotm word file from templates from within the office button and I change such things as "line spacing" or "change curly quotes to straight quotes" or any other such variation and I save it afterwards, does that mean that every subsequent word document I open will automatically have those changes in them? If so, would I also be right in saying that I should make a separate template in "Templates" specifically with these changes in them for that use? You may or may not know this but being a Microsoft Word expert, would you happen to know the exact format within a word document that professional writers and author's use generally? That includes all the punctuation, line spacing, font and anything else there is to know for the general formatting of a manuscipt? It does not matter if you do not know, I was just wondering if you did? W. "Wendy" wrote in message ... Will do Terry, once again thanks for all your help :-)) "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... We recommend renaming rather than deleting as normal.dotm sometimes stores special user create macros and styles which can be copied to the normal.bad to the normal.dotm using the Oganizer. If you ignore it for a few session until you are happy that nothing is missing, then delete it. Terry "Wendy" wrote in message ... Brilliant Terry!!! Thank you very much indeed! It now works perfectly. Just one thing, renaming the normal.dotm to normal.bad has left a file there in templates as a blank piece of paper with the filename "normal.bad" and created a new normal.dotm which I assume is the new uncorrupted file. What do I do with the normal.bad blank piece of paper file, do I delete it or just leave it there? I checked all the other templates and there were no others there with the ~ character. Thank you so much for your patience and help. W. "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... That is correct reaction: when the Data Key is deleted, it is automatically recreated when Word is restarted (but it will be fresh and uncorrupted). To resolve the other part of the problem, you need to find normal.dotm and rename it normal.bad. Presuming you are using Word 2007 in Vista, you will find the file in: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templa tes With Word closed, use Windows Explorer to get to the Templates folder above, select normal.dotm, right-click and choose Rename; then change it to normal.bad. Whilst in that folder, if you see ANY templates or files starting with a ~ character, delete them. Now test Word again. Terry "Wendy" wrote in message ... I went into the registry, but I did not change anything within there, so no damage has appeared. All I have done now, is exactly what you have asked me to do which is to delete "Data" in "Word" within the registry. I have done this three times and rebooted three times and after deleting the "Data" each time, it comes back when I reboot thus, still leaving the problem. Can you think what else it could be? Thank you W. |
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Terry,
In the word 2007 program, I can format how many spaces there should be after the end of a sentence and the full stop. So for example, when a sentence finishes, the next sentence will automatically start two spaces after the previous one if set like that in word. Can you tell me within the word program, if I can also do this with a comma? I would like to, every time I use a comma for punctuation, have the next word after the comma to start one space after it. Is this possible at all and if it is, could you tell me how it is done within the word program please. Thank you Wendy "Wendy" wrote in message ... Okay Terry, that's exactly what I thought. Thanks for all the advice. W. "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... Many changes can be made permanently by editing normal.dotm. However, many of the changes that you want to make can be done through the dialogs in Word - such as page settings, font set, paragraph spacing, line spacing, etc. and that is the easiest and safest way to change them (minimal risk of corrupting normal.dotm). Those examples can all be done in the Font and Paragraph dialogs by pressing the DEFAULT button in the dialogs after making the changes. Curly quotes (Smart Quotes) can be toggled off in the AutoCorrect Options dialog (Word Options | Proofing tab). However, most of these settings will only work for new document and not for existing documents. If you need to change existing documents, then this can be done in various ways dependant on the changes: attaching a new template to a document, running a Find & Replace or using a macro are some of the tools. But in the long-term, creating your own templates is often the best method because some changes to normal.dot (such as adding a header or footer, for example) can have unforeseen consequences with other Word functions. Terry "Wendy" wrote in message ... Terry, may I ask another question please. I am not going to tamper with this, so do not panic, these are just only questions. Am I right in saying that, if I select the normal.dotm word file from templates from within the office button and I change such things as "line spacing" or "change curly quotes to straight quotes" or any other such variation and I save it afterwards, does that mean that every subsequent word document I open will automatically have those changes in them? If so, would I also be right in saying that I should make a separate template in "Templates" specifically with these changes in them for that use? You may or may not know this but being a Microsoft Word expert, would you happen to know the exact format within a word document that professional writers and author's use generally? That includes all the punctuation, line spacing, font and anything else there is to know for the general formatting of a manuscipt? It does not matter if you do not know, I was just wondering if you did? W. "Wendy" wrote in message ... Will do Terry, once again thanks for all your help :-)) "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... We recommend renaming rather than deleting as normal.dotm sometimes stores special user create macros and styles which can be copied to the normal.bad to the normal.dotm using the Oganizer. If you ignore it for a few session until you are happy that nothing is missing, then delete it. Terry "Wendy" wrote in message ... Brilliant Terry!!! Thank you very much indeed! It now works perfectly. Just one thing, renaming the normal.dotm to normal.bad has left a file there in templates as a blank piece of paper with the filename "normal.bad" and created a new normal.dotm which I assume is the new uncorrupted file. What do I do with the normal.bad blank piece of paper file, do I delete it or just leave it there? I checked all the other templates and there were no others there with the ~ character. Thank you so much for your patience and help. W. "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... That is correct reaction: when the Data Key is deleted, it is automatically recreated when Word is restarted (but it will be fresh and uncorrupted). To resolve the other part of the problem, you need to find normal.dotm and rename it normal.bad. Presuming you are using Word 2007 in Vista, you will find the file in: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templa tes With Word closed, use Windows Explorer to get to the Templates folder above, select normal.dotm, right-click and choose Rename; then change it to normal.bad. Whilst in that folder, if you see ANY templates or files starting with a ~ character, delete them. Now test Word again. Terry "Wendy" wrote in message ... I went into the registry, but I did not change anything within there, so no damage has appeared. All I have done now, is exactly what you have asked me to do which is to delete "Data" in "Word" within the registry. I have done this three times and rebooted three times and after deleting the "Data" each time, it comes back when I reboot thus, still leaving the problem. Can you think what else it could be? Thank you W. |
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Neither is possible in Word ... automatically.
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Wendy wrote: Terry, In the word 2007 program, I can format how many spaces there should be after the end of a sentence and the full stop. So for example, when a sentence finishes, the next sentence will automatically start two spaces after the previous one if set like that in word. Can you tell me within the word program, if I can also do this with a comma? I would like to, every time I use a comma for punctuation, have the next word after the comma to start one space after it. Is this possible at all and if it is, could you tell me how it is done within the word program please. Thank you Wendy "Wendy" wrote in message ... Okay Terry, that's exactly what I thought. Thanks for all the advice. W. "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... Many changes can be made permanently by editing normal.dotm. However, many of the changes that you want to make can be done through the dialogs in Word - such as page settings, font set, paragraph spacing, line spacing, etc. and that is the easiest and safest way to change them (minimal risk of corrupting normal.dotm). Those examples can all be done in the Font and Paragraph dialogs by pressing the DEFAULT button in the dialogs after making the changes. Curly quotes (Smart Quotes) can be toggled off in the AutoCorrect Options dialog (Word Options | Proofing tab). However, most of these settings will only work for new document and not for existing documents. If you need to change existing documents, then this can be done in various ways dependant on the changes: attaching a new template to a document, running a Find & Replace or using a macro are some of the tools. But in the long-term, creating your own templates is often the best method because some changes to normal.dot (such as adding a header or footer, for example) can have unforeseen consequences with other Word functions. Terry "Wendy" wrote in message ... Terry, may I ask another question please. I am not going to tamper with this, so do not panic, these are just only questions. Am I right in saying that, if I select the normal.dotm word file from templates from within the office button and I change such things as "line spacing" or "change curly quotes to straight quotes" or any other such variation and I save it afterwards, does that mean that every subsequent word document I open will automatically have those changes in them? If so, would I also be right in saying that I should make a separate template in "Templates" specifically with these changes in them for that use? You may or may not know this but being a Microsoft Word expert, would you happen to know the exact format within a word document that professional writers and author's use generally? That includes all the punctuation, line spacing, font and anything else there is to know for the general formatting of a manuscipt? It does not matter if you do not know, I was just wondering if you did? W. "Wendy" wrote in message ... Will do Terry, once again thanks for all your help :-)) "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... We recommend renaming rather than deleting as normal.dotm sometimes stores special user create macros and styles which can be copied to the normal.bad to the normal.dotm using the Oganizer. If you ignore it for a few session until you are happy that nothing is missing, then delete it. Terry "Wendy" wrote in message ... Brilliant Terry!!! Thank you very much indeed! It now works perfectly. Just one thing, renaming the normal.dotm to normal.bad has left a file there in templates as a blank piece of paper with the filename "normal.bad" and created a new normal.dotm which I assume is the new uncorrupted file. What do I do with the normal.bad blank piece of paper file, do I delete it or just leave it there? I checked all the other templates and there were no others there with the ~ character. Thank you so much for your patience and help. W. "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... That is correct reaction: when the Data Key is deleted, it is automatically recreated when Word is restarted (but it will be fresh and uncorrupted). To resolve the other part of the problem, you need to find normal.dotm and rename it normal.bad. Presuming you are using Word 2007 in Vista, you will find the file in: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templa tes With Word closed, use Windows Explorer to get to the Templates folder above, select normal.dotm, right-click and choose Rename; then change it to normal.bad. Whilst in that folder, if you see ANY templates or files starting with a ~ character, delete them. Now test Word again. Terry "Wendy" wrote in message ... I went into the registry, but I did not change anything within there, so no damage has appeared. All I have done now, is exactly what you have asked me to do which is to delete "Data" in "Word" within the registry. I have done this three times and rebooted three times and after deleting the "Data" each time, it comes back when I reboot thus, still leaving the problem. Can you think what else it could be? Thank you W. |
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As Graham says. Also it is a waste of time unless you are using an 18th
Century typewriter type face because modern fonts auto-magically adjust the spacing between words and characters to best fit. Putting in double-spaces will be hit and miss: it also went out with typewriters. Terry "Wendy" wrote in message ... Terry, In the word 2007 program, I can format how many spaces there should be after the end of a sentence and the full stop. So for example, when a sentence finishes, the next sentence will automatically start two spaces after the previous one if set like that in word. Can you tell me within the word program, if I can also do this with a comma? I would like to, every time I use a comma for punctuation, have the next word after the comma to start one space after it. Is this possible at all and if it is, could you tell me how it is done within the word program please. Thank you Wendy "Wendy" wrote in message ... Okay Terry, that's exactly what I thought. Thanks for all the advice. W. "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... Many changes can be made permanently by editing normal.dotm. However, many of the changes that you want to make can be done through the dialogs in Word - such as page settings, font set, paragraph spacing, line spacing, etc. and that is the easiest and safest way to change them (minimal risk of corrupting normal.dotm). Those examples can all be done in the Font and Paragraph dialogs by pressing the DEFAULT button in the dialogs after making the changes. Curly quotes (Smart Quotes) can be toggled off in the AutoCorrect Options dialog (Word Options | Proofing tab). However, most of these settings will only work for new document and not for existing documents. If you need to change existing documents, then this can be done in various ways dependant on the changes: attaching a new template to a document, running a Find & Replace or using a macro are some of the tools. But in the long-term, creating your own templates is often the best method because some changes to normal.dot (such as adding a header or footer, for example) can have unforeseen consequences with other Word functions. Terry "Wendy" wrote in message ... Terry, may I ask another question please. I am not going to tamper with this, so do not panic, these are just only questions. Am I right in saying that, if I select the normal.dotm word file from templates from within the office button and I change such things as "line spacing" or "change curly quotes to straight quotes" or any other such variation and I save it afterwards, does that mean that every subsequent word document I open will automatically have those changes in them? If so, would I also be right in saying that I should make a separate template in "Templates" specifically with these changes in them for that use? You may or may not know this but being a Microsoft Word expert, would you happen to know the exact format within a word document that professional writers and author's use generally? That includes all the punctuation, line spacing, font and anything else there is to know for the general formatting of a manuscipt? It does not matter if you do not know, I was just wondering if you did? W. "Wendy" wrote in message ... Will do Terry, once again thanks for all your help :-)) "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... We recommend renaming rather than deleting as normal.dotm sometimes stores special user create macros and styles which can be copied to the normal.bad to the normal.dotm using the Oganizer. If you ignore it for a few session until you are happy that nothing is missing, then delete it. Terry "Wendy" wrote in message ... Brilliant Terry!!! Thank you very much indeed! It now works perfectly. Just one thing, renaming the normal.dotm to normal.bad has left a file there in templates as a blank piece of paper with the filename "normal.bad" and created a new normal.dotm which I assume is the new uncorrupted file. What do I do with the normal.bad blank piece of paper file, do I delete it or just leave it there? I checked all the other templates and there were no others there with the ~ character. Thank you so much for your patience and help. W. "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... That is correct reaction: when the Data Key is deleted, it is automatically recreated when Word is restarted (but it will be fresh and uncorrupted). To resolve the other part of the problem, you need to find normal.dotm and rename it normal.bad. Presuming you are using Word 2007 in Vista, you will find the file in: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templa tes With Word closed, use Windows Explorer to get to the Templates folder above, select normal.dotm, right-click and choose Rename; then change it to normal.bad. Whilst in that folder, if you see ANY templates or files starting with a ~ character, delete them. Now test Word again. Terry "Wendy" wrote in message ... I went into the registry, but I did not change anything within there, so no damage has appeared. All I have done now, is exactly what you have asked me to do which is to delete "Data" in "Word" within the registry. I have done this three times and rebooted three times and after deleting the "Data" each time, it comes back when I reboot thus, still leaving the problem. Can you think what else it could be? Thank you W. |
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On Jul 20, 10:15*am, "Terry Farrell" wrote:
It sounds like Word was left running whilst this week's updates installed which corrupted the Word Data Key. You need to run Regedit and navigate to the key and whilst DATA is selected, press DELETE. Word will create a new key when you restart. Word data Key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\W ord\Data -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Wendy" wrote in message ... Thanks Gordon, I fathomed how to get a blank page again through the Website you gave me but I am still having problems with the cut and pasting scenario. I looked on that website you gave me, but I could not see anywhere on it that tells me how to rectify this problem. Just to recap, in Word 2007, if I try to cut and paste any document or file into a Word document, it only shows part of the document pasted into Word. This never use to happen before and I had no trouble doing this. Can anybody tell me how I get my Word 2007 back to the status quo so I can then cut and paste documents or files into it like I could before? Wendy "Gordon" wrote in message ... "Wendy" wrote in message ... Hi, I have are a couple of problems with Word 2007. When I open Word 2007, it comes out with the word "Okay" on each blank page document and I do not know how to get it back to a blank page each time it is opened. *Can anybody tell me how to get rid of the writing and just have a blank document again every time I open it? Have a look he http://word.mvps.org/fAQs/AppErrors/...cNotBlank.htm- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Hi Terry, Thanks for your advise. I followed your steps and deleted the DATA as instructed and Word 2007 works again! I too had Word open on one of those nights when updates took place. |
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I wish there was an explanation as to why this key is so vulnerable. There
are hundreds of posts about it. And Microsoft has now created a tool for deleting that registry key without the need for users to run Regedit, they must know how frequently this is happening. See MSKB 940791 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940791 Terry "Day" wrote in message ... On Jul 20, 10:15 am, "Terry Farrell" wrote: It sounds like Word was left running whilst this week's updates installed which corrupted the Word Data Key. You need to run Regedit and navigate to the key and whilst DATA is selected, press DELETE. Word will create a new key when you restart. Word data Key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\W ord\Data -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "Wendy" wrote in message ... Thanks Gordon, I fathomed how to get a blank page again through the Website you gave me but I am still having problems with the cut and pasting scenario. I looked on that website you gave me, but I could not see anywhere on it that tells me how to rectify this problem. Just to recap, in Word 2007, if I try to cut and paste any document or file into a Word document, it only shows part of the document pasted into Word. This never use to happen before and I had no trouble doing this. Can anybody tell me how I get my Word 2007 back to the status quo so I can then cut and paste documents or files into it like I could before? Wendy "Gordon" wrote in message ... "Wendy" wrote in message ... Hi, I have are a couple of problems with Word 2007. When I open Word 2007, it comes out with the word "Okay" on each blank page document and I do not know how to get it back to a blank page each time it is opened. Can anybody tell me how to get rid of the writing and just have a blank document again every time I open it? Have a look he http://word.mvps.org/fAQs/AppErrors/...cNotBlank.htm- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Hi Terry, Thanks for your advise. I followed your steps and deleted the DATA as instructed and Word 2007 works again! I too had Word open on one of those nights when updates took place. |
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Problems with Microsoft Office Word 2007
For some advice on creating templates, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart1.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Wendy" wrote in message ... Okay Terry, that's exactly what I thought. Thanks for all the advice. W. "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... Many changes can be made permanently by editing normal.dotm. However, many of the changes that you want to make can be done through the dialogs in Word - such as page settings, font set, paragraph spacing, line spacing, etc. and that is the easiest and safest way to change them (minimal risk of corrupting normal.dotm). Those examples can all be done in the Font and Paragraph dialogs by pressing the DEFAULT button in the dialogs after making the changes. Curly quotes (Smart Quotes) can be toggled off in the AutoCorrect Options dialog (Word Options | Proofing tab). However, most of these settings will only work for new document and not for existing documents. If you need to change existing documents, then this can be done in various ways dependant on the changes: attaching a new template to a document, running a Find & Replace or using a macro are some of the tools. But in the long-term, creating your own templates is often the best method because some changes to normal.dot (such as adding a header or footer, for example) can have unforeseen consequences with other Word functions. Terry "Wendy" wrote in message ... Terry, may I ask another question please. I am not going to tamper with this, so do not panic, these are just only questions. Am I right in saying that, if I select the normal.dotm word file from templates from within the office button and I change such things as "line spacing" or "change curly quotes to straight quotes" or any other such variation and I save it afterwards, does that mean that every subsequent word document I open will automatically have those changes in them? If so, would I also be right in saying that I should make a separate template in "Templates" specifically with these changes in them for that use? You may or may not know this but being a Microsoft Word expert, would you happen to know the exact format within a word document that professional writers and author's use generally? That includes all the punctuation, line spacing, font and anything else there is to know for the general formatting of a manuscipt? It does not matter if you do not know, I was just wondering if you did? W. "Wendy" wrote in message ... Will do Terry, once again thanks for all your help :-)) "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... We recommend renaming rather than deleting as normal.dotm sometimes stores special user create macros and styles which can be copied to the normal.bad to the normal.dotm using the Oganizer. If you ignore it for a few session until you are happy that nothing is missing, then delete it. Terry "Wendy" wrote in message ... Brilliant Terry!!! Thank you very much indeed! It now works perfectly. Just one thing, renaming the normal.dotm to normal.bad has left a file there in templates as a blank piece of paper with the filename "normal.bad" and created a new normal.dotm which I assume is the new uncorrupted file. What do I do with the normal.bad blank piece of paper file, do I delete it or just leave it there? I checked all the other templates and there were no others there with the ~ character. Thank you so much for your patience and help. W. "Terry Farrell" wrote in message ... That is correct reaction: when the Data Key is deleted, it is automatically recreated when Word is restarted (but it will be fresh and uncorrupted). To resolve the other part of the problem, you need to find normal.dotm and rename it normal.bad. Presuming you are using Word 2007 in Vista, you will find the file in: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templa tes With Word closed, use Windows Explorer to get to the Templates folder above, select normal.dotm, right-click and choose Rename; then change it to normal.bad. Whilst in that folder, if you see ANY templates or files starting with a ~ character, delete them. Now test Word again. Terry "Wendy" wrote in message ... I went into the registry, but I did not change anything within there, so no damage has appeared. All I have done now, is exactly what you have asked me to do which is to delete "Data" in "Word" within the registry. I have done this three times and rebooted three times and after deleting the "Data" each time, it comes back when I reboot thus, still leaving the problem. Can you think what else it could be? Thank you W. |
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