If you need ammunition, see “You cannot share the Normal.dot file among
multiple users in Word”
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=811468

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"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Normal.dot should not be used as a shared file. It is an individual user
file.

Sharing normal.dot is a recipe for disaster and in any case is
unnecessary.
Company standards can be imposed by using global templates and shared
document templates. I would urge you to take this up with the company.

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gooner wrote:
Thanks for that, I cannot believe how easy that is, I wouldn't have
thought it came down to just that. I haven't tried it yet as believe
it or not the company I am contrcting in uses one version of
normal.dot for the whole company on a network dir. I cannot rename
it at present as it is being used by someone, I will post back to let
you know.

Thanks for your time Graham

rgds

Damian

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Rename normal.dot to oldnormal.dot. The default entries will be
rebuilt.

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gooner wrote:
I have several users in the company that have lost their Autotext
entries for example:

Author
Date
Page Number etc etc.

I know how to input them manually using the insert and Field option
but to do this on so many PC's would be soooo time consuming. My
Autotext Field has the standard entries, is there a template I could
copy or a setings file that I can copy from my Office Dir on my PC
to all the other users PC's so that they get all of their standard
autotext entries back??

Thanks in Advance

Damian