Even though there's no visible text in normal.dot (in fact, there shouldn't
be anything visible), there are still styles in the Format Style dialog
(or task pane, depending on your version of Word). There is also one "empty"
paragraph mark, which you can see when you click the ¶ button on the
toolbar. Modify a style such as Body Text, and apply that style to the empty
paragraph by selecting its name in the style dropdown or in the task pane.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

greenhorn wrote:
Jay, my normal.dot is totally empty! What do I do now? (The
automatic uppercase seems to be resolved. Thanks.)

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

On Sun, 22 May 2005 14:40:03 -0700, greenhorn
wrote:

I keep trying to set my default line spacing to 1.5 lines instead of
'single', but Word keeps changing it back to 'single'. How do
establish a default line spacing that will stick? Also, how do I
get Word to stop changing mu lower case letter to an upper case
letter? AS a teacher, when I prepare word lists I don't want the
first word to be capitalized.

For the spacing, see
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...alTemplate.htm.
Pay attention, though, to the argument against changing settings in
the Normal style of the Normal.dot template -- many other styles
depend on that style, and you probably don't want all of them to
change to 1.5 line spacing. Instead, you can define or modify another
style -- such as Body Text -- and apply that style to the text you
want to affect.

The change of case for the first letter of a new paragraph is caused
by the "Capitalize first letter of sentences" option in Tools
AutoCorrect Options.See
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...AutoFormat.htm for more
information.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org