Difficult to answer as the default template in Word is called normal.dot. It
seems you may have a autonew or autoopen macro or an add-in that created a
new document from the standard.dot template. You need to eliminate the macro
that does this or edit it so that it works correctly.
See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...peningWord.htm and probably
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm
--
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site
www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site
http://word.mvps.org
Nick Gower-Jones wrote:
Morning everyone. Apologies if this has been covered before, but I
did search for an answer to this in vain, so I'm going to ask.
I'm running Word 2002, and every time I open an existing document,
Word creates a new document based on a template called Standard.dot.
When I close the unwanted new document, I get asked whether I want to
save the changes to Standard.dot. Can I a) stop this new document
being created every time I open a file or b) switch this prompt off?
Sorry is this is a basic question, but I can't figure out what's
going on here.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help
Nick