"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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Normal.dot is a user file and 189kb is a particularly
small one at that. I don't see why you are concerning
yourself with this. However a better plan would be to
ensure that tools options save prompt to save
normal.dot is checked and then only required
additions will be saved to it.

Umm, no, that's not really very small. A typical
"empty" normal.dot will be in the order of less than
30k in the win2xxx series, smaller in earlier versions.
Also, "prompt to save" doesn't limit anything being
stored to normal.dot: It simply gives the user the
chance to say yes or no to a proposed change. You can
also forbid any changes to normal.dot if you want to.

HTH,

Pop



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PA wrote:
What are the potential problem areas that one should
look at to
trouble shoot a constantly growing Normal template
file, Normal.dot
I have a user whose file has grown from 45KB to
189KB in three days,
without having added any customizations to Word.
Word has been used
for the basics of word processing only.
Any guidance would be appreciated.
Paul