Hi, Suzanne,
I'm curious why you feel so strongly about this. I always thought that
deleting the Normal.dot template was a fairly innocuous thing to do, since
Word will automatically create a new Normal.dot next time you start. I must
have been wrong, it seems.
Fred

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

No! Not delete! Rename at most.

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"Idaho Word Man" wrote in message
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That blank page that opens as Document1 is your Normal template. All you
need to do is find the file called "Normal.dot" and delete it.

"dalemett" wrote:

A former staff person created a letter to her son on the blank page,
document1. We cannot get rid of this letter and recover the original
blank
page on opening the program or opening another blank page. I even
removed the
software and reinstalled several weeks later and it came back with the
letter
on opening the program. According to her there was no password used on
the
letter.