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Hi Suzanne-
Thanks for taking the time to respond! The list idea (maybe as checkboxes) is great, although I can understand where there may be some coding issues. But even if one _did not_ have to say Yes a 2nd time to saving a change they had *already* said Yes to saving (perhaps hours before), it would be helpful. Best Regards |:) "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I hadn't thought about the scenario you describe, but I think it is accurate and agree with your suggestion. What we've actually requested for a future version of Word that would be even more helpful would be a sort of Undo list for the prompt to save Normal.dot, that is, a list of the changes that will be saved if you say yes. When I leave Word running all day, I often forget whether I've actually made changes I want to keep or not (a lot of times I'll add a toolbar button and then remove it again while testing something to answer a user's question--no net change, but Word doesn't treat it that way). Not to mention the bug that makes Word keep prompting you to save Normal.dot for days after the time changes in the fall and spring; it will not quit until you finally give in! -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "CyberTaz" wrote in message ... Hi Graham- Thanks for taking the time to clarify! I appreciate your prompt and thorough response. I understand and agree with the point you make re exercising 'control' over saving changes to normal.dot, especially for intermediate to advanced users. I believe that is the 'missing link' I wasn't picking up on earlier in the thread. As a sidebar to the discussion: I have found that since the prompt to save appears as the change is being made even when the option is set as you suggest, it leads to confusion for less experienced users. They have already said Yes to saving _that_ change, and when they Exit and are prompted again they are afraid to say Yes for fear of saving something else by accident. It isn't clear that the prompt pertains to their default font change. Ergo, they say No at the final prompt and their intended change is discarded, as you point out. IMHO it would be helpful if there were separate prompts generated for changes that are to be saved in normal.dot triggered by how the prompt in the Save Options is set. If unchecked, "Changes will be saved..." & if checked, "Changes will be in effect for session only, permanent change must be saved on Exit...". Does this seem reasonable? Best Regards |:) On 3/26/05 12:20 PM, in article , "Graham Mayor" wrote: Now we are all getting confused There was nothing wrong with your original response, but for the necessity to ensure that the changes to the default are actually saved in normal.dot. The circumstances whereby normal.dot changes are saved are twofold: 1. If tools options prompt to save normal.dot is *unchecked* then normal.dot is saved automatically on exit. Most people do not have this option set, because it is a good plan to decide for yourself whether to allow such changes. 2. If the above option is *checked* then changes are not automatically saved, but may be saved at the prompt to save. I know of no other circumstances, not caused by a fault condition, that would cause changes to normal.dot to be saved automatically. If the changes are not saved to normal.dot then they are active only for the current session. However, it is possible to set Word to be the e-mail editor of Outlook and closing Word does not necessaily close it completely if it is the Outlook editor *and* has been used to edit a message from Outlook *and* Outlook remains open. You can see this if you press CTRL+ALT+DEL and check the running processes, for winword.exe would still be list. Under such circumstances you could close Word directly and you would get no prompt to save normal.dot and you could re-open Word and the default would still be as you had set it, because Outlook is holding normal.dot open throughout. You would thus only get a prompt to save normal.dot if you closed *both* Word *and* Outlook. If you then reject the option to save normal.dot the original setting is reverted to. -- |
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