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NOT Saving Templates
I've been using templates for years and suddenly Word is prompting me asking
if I want to make changes to the template. I know it must be my changing a style or something in the doc, but I DON'T want the template changed and I don't want that message to appear because I definitely don't want others to change the templates. How can I stop the message? -- REM |
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I'm also having this problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated....
"Bob M" wrote: I've been using templates for years and suddenly Word is prompting me asking if I want to make changes to the template. I know it must be my changing a style or something in the doc, but I DON'T want the template changed and I don't want that message to appear because I definitely don't want others to change the templates. How can I stop the message? -- REM |
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You can stop the message by turning it off. However, that means that the
changes will simply be saved without the message. The message "Changes have been made that affect the global template - normal. Do you wish to save those changes?" is an important warning. It suppplements your virus detector and handles other potential problems. Its display means that changes have been made, whether you intended to make changes or not. You can also get it when your template has been altered by a poorly written Add-In program or by a virus. The reason for the message being shown repeatedly is almost always a poorly written Add-In. The Norton AV Office Plug-In seems to be the most frequent offender recently, but that can change as some other poorly written program comes on the market. Other offenders include the MS Works Suite Add-In, EZ-Photo, Scansoft, and Adobe Acrobat. These all install Add-Ins that mess with your normal.dot when they shouldn't do so and don't need to do so. Some of these are .dot files, others are installed. See URL: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/CheckIfAddinsInstalled.htm for instructions on seeing what Add-Ins you have. (Having Add-Ins is not a bad thing. I run Word with 15 Add-Ins, most of which I wrote myself.) Start with the Add-Ins I've noted. If you have any of them, decide whether they are worth the annoyance they are causing you. Probably they are not. Disable any that are not worth the candle. Restart Word and see if your problem is gone. If not... If you start Word using Start = Run: Winword.exe /a you'll end up with Word out of the box loading without your saved normal.dot file, with no macros and no Add-Ins. You may notice that it loads much more quickly than you are used to seing. When you close it, you won't get the "normal.dot" prompt. Doing this may fix the problem, by itself, but probably will not. Generally, it is a diagnostic, not a fix. So, what you need to do is disable all of your Add-Ins (don't delete them). Start by moving .dot files out of your Word Startup folder, one-by-one, with Word closed. Restart Word and see if that Add-In caused the problem. If not, put it back in and take the next one out. (You can put them in a sub-folder of your Startup folder.) If none of them are the problem, move to the .com Add-Ins that have to be uninstalled. If your offender is not on my list, please write back and let us know which one caused your problems. Write to the company that put out the Add-In with a complaint, and possibly a bill for your time. Hope this helps, "Bob M" wrote in message ... I've been using templates for years and suddenly Word is prompting me asking if I want to make changes to the template. I know it must be my changing a style or something in the doc, but I DON'T want the template changed and I don't want that message to appear because I definitely don't want others to change the templates. How can I stop the message? -- REM |
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"Charles Kenyon" wrote: You can stop the message by turning it off. However, that means that the changes will simply be saved without the message. The message "Changes have been made that affect the global template - normal. Do you wish to save those changes?" is an important warning. It suppplements your virus detector and handles other potential problems. Its display means that changes have been made, whether you intended to make changes or not. You can also get it when your template has been altered by a poorly written Add-In program or by a virus. The reason for the message being shown repeatedly is almost always a poorly written Add-In. The Norton AV Office Plug-In seems to be the most frequent offender recently, but that can change as some other poorly written program comes on the market. Other offenders include the MS Works Suite Add-In, EZ-Photo, Scansoft, and Adobe Acrobat. These all install Add-Ins that mess with your normal.dot when they shouldn't do so and don't need to do so. Some of these are .dot files, others are installed. See URL: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/CheckIfAddinsInstalled.htm for instructions on seeing what Add-Ins you have. (Having Add-Ins is not a bad thing. I run Word with 15 Add-Ins, most of which I wrote myself.) Start with the Add-Ins I've noted. If you have any of them, decide whether they are worth the annoyance they are causing you. Probably they are not. Disable any that are not worth the candle. Restart Word and see if your problem is gone. If not... If you start Word using Start = Run: Winword.exe /a you'll end up with Word out of the box loading without your saved normal.dot file, with no macros and no Add-Ins. You may notice that it loads much more quickly than you are used to seing. When you close it, you won't get the "normal.dot" prompt. Doing this may fix the problem, by itself, but probably will not. Generally, it is a diagnostic, not a fix. So, what you need to do is disable all of your Add-Ins (don't delete them). Start by moving .dot files out of your Word Startup folder, one-by-one, with Word closed. Restart Word and see if that Add-In caused the problem. If not, put it back in and take the next one out. (You can put them in a sub-folder of your Startup folder.) If none of them are the problem, move to the .com Add-Ins that have to be uninstalled. If your offender is not on my list, please write back and let us know which one caused your problems. Write to the company that put out the Add-In with a complaint, and possibly a bill for your time. Hope this helps, "Bob M" wrote in message ... I've been using templates for years and suddenly Word is prompting me asking if I want to make changes to the template. I know it must be my changing a style or something in the doc, but I DON'T want the template changed and I don't want that message to appear because I definitely don't want others to change the templates. How can I stop the message? -- REM |
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