[binar]

Fellow Forum Members,
My manual I'm writing in WORD is linked to it's own NORMAL.DOT template file
I named MyManual.dot. In addition, it's located on a network drive G: in a
directory named "Project". However, and this has me confused, eventhough I
have gone to OPTIONS and have told WORD to link to the Normal.dot file in
G:Project named "MyManaul.dot" for some reason Word keeps on autogenerating a
standard Normal.dot file named "Normal.dot". Why does Word do this? I find
it confusing as heck as to why WORD requires a second DOT file in the same
folder my custom DOT file is located in? Any help will be greatly
appreciated. Thanks.

[Stefan Blom]

You simply cannot replace the blank document template in Word. If Word
cannot find normal.dot, it will always create a new one, sooner or
later.

What you can do is create a new documents from some other template,
such as your MyManual.dot template.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"binar" wrote in message
...
Fellow Forum Members,
My manual I'm writing in WORD is linked to it's own NORMAL.DOT
template file
I named MyManual.dot. In addition, it's located on a network drive
G: in a
directory named "Project". However, and this has me confused,
eventhough I
have gone to OPTIONS and have told WORD to link to the Normal.dot
file in
G:Project named "MyManaul.dot" for some reason Word keeps on
autogenerating a
standard Normal.dot file named "Normal.dot". Why does Word do this?
I find
it confusing as heck as to why WORD requires a second DOT file in
the same
folder my custom DOT file is located in? Any help will be greatly
appreciated. Thanks.

[Graham Mayor]

You cannot create normal.dot in this way. Only Word can create Normal.dot
which is a required system file and if not present Word will re-create it.
Use your own template as a document template.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



binar wrote:
Fellow Forum Members,
My manual I'm writing in WORD is linked to it's own NORMAL.DOT
template file I named MyManual.dot. In addition, it's located on a
network drive G: in a directory named "Project". However, and this
has me confused, eventhough I have gone to OPTIONS and have told WORD
to link to the Normal.dot file in G:Project named "MyManaul.dot" for
some reason Word keeps on autogenerating a standard Normal.dot file
named "Normal.dot". Why does Word do this? I find it confusing as
heck as to why WORD requires a second DOT file in the same folder my
custom DOT file is located in? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.