[andrswal]

I am an experienced office user.

I updated from 2003 in October last yeaer and still cannot get on with the
new office. I hate the ribbon structure but will try the suggested ribbon
solution elsewhere on this forum.

My main problem right now is that Word keeps replacing the normal.dotm. I
have developed the normal dot for many years and for the first 3 months it
worked fine with word 2007 under the .dotm mode but for the last 8 weeks
almost every day it replaces my normal.dotm with a new 16k normal.dotm. It
backs up mine and I can replace the new version but it is such a bind! I
tried making my normal.dotm read only but that doesnt stop word replacing it
either. Am I mising a tick box which says replace my normal.dotm everytime I
close down?

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hello Andrswal

andrswal wrote:
I am an experienced office user.

I updated from 2003 in October last yeaer and still cannot get on with the
new office. I hate the ribbon structure but will try the suggested ribbon
solution elsewhere on this forum.

My main problem right now is that Word keeps replacing the normal.dotm. I
have developed the normal dot for many years and for the first 3 months it
worked fine with word 2007 under the .dotm mode but for the last 8 weeks
almost every day it replaces my normal.dotm with a new 16k normal.dotm. It
backs up mine and I can replace the new version but it is such a bind! I
tried making my normal.dotm read only but that doesnt stop word replacing it
either. Am I mising a tick box which says replace my normal.dotm everytime I
close down?

hardly. From what I read, the most likely culprit would be a
mis-behaving Add-In. Any installed?

HTH
Robert
--
/"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MSFT |
\ / | MVP | Scientific Reports
X Against HTML | for | with Word?
/ \ in e-mail & news | Word | http://www.masteringword.eu/

[andrswal]

Thanks for your interest Robert,

the only active add ins are Personal name (its an outlook add in from
Microsoft looks to be standard)

and a new add in I put there today to try out the "ribbon Customizer"
suggested by someone else.

inactive there are loads most are "smart tags" the only non microsoft one is
adobe 8

"Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote:

Hello Andrswal

andrswal wrote:
I am an experienced office user.

I updated from 2003 in October last yeaer and still cannot get on with the
new office. I hate the ribbon structure but will try the suggested ribbon
solution elsewhere on this forum.

My main problem right now is that Word keeps replacing the normal.dotm. I
have developed the normal dot for many years and for the first 3 months it
worked fine with word 2007 under the .dotm mode but for the last 8 weeks
almost every day it replaces my normal.dotm with a new 16k normal.dotm. It
backs up mine and I can replace the new version but it is such a bind! I
tried making my normal.dotm read only but that doesnt stop word replacing it
either. Am I mising a tick box which says replace my normal.dotm everytime I
close down?

hardly. From what I read, the most likely culprit would be a
mis-behaving Add-In. Any installed?

HTH
Robert
--
/"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MSFT |
\ / | MVP | Scientific Reports
X Against HTML | for | with Word?
/ \ in e-mail & news | Word | http://www.masteringword.eu/