A blank document saved as normal.dot is not normal.dot. Only Word can create
that. See the link in the original reply.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Helenh wrote:
Thanks for the advice. I tried this but for some reason it wouldn't
let me change the style, so I deleted the hyperlink style it was
using, it then reverted to normal and I recreated the hyperlink style
and saved the document again as the normal.dot... it works fine now.

Open the file normal.dot. Change the style of the first paragraph to
normal then save and close the template.
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Helenh wrote:
I've set templates up to work, however if you click on the icon for
new blank document it opens the template but defaults to a style
within it rather than the normal style.. any ideas how I can change
this icon to open the 'normal.dot' template?