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Hi all,
can anybody help, please? System: MS Word 2003 on WinXP Prof 2002, SP 2, MS Office Prof 2003 Problem: with insert reference I can creat new categories for captions, and I can refer to these within the document. However, these new categories are saved in Normal.dot, not in the document. Hence, when I copy my document to different computer, I have either to create these categories anew or copy my old Normal.dot to this new computer. Is there a better way, such as fusing Normal.dot with a document or saving the new categories somehow with the document, making the document portable from computer to computer? Thank you, Siggi |
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siggi wrote:
Hi all, can anybody help, please? System: MS Word 2003 on WinXP Prof 2002, SP 2, MS Office Prof 2003 Problem: with insert reference I can creat new categories for captions, and I can refer to these within the document. However, these new categories are saved in Normal.dot, not in the document. Hence, when I copy my document to different computer, I have either to create these categories anew or copy my old Normal.dot to this new computer. Is there a better way, such as fusing Normal.dot with a document or saving the new categories somehow with the document, making the document portable from computer to computer? I don't know of any such better method. If the document in question must be "fool proof", you need the creation method in code. If not, maybe a simple readme.txt file (well, readme.doc, more likely :-)) with instructions on how to create the category first) will help (the users who read documentation). Greetinx Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Thank you, Robert, also for your reply in microsoft.public.de.word. Seems I
have to go back to my own system of referring to captions (that I concocted with the help of a friendly MS assistant at a time when MS hotlines were still free for everybody). My system is not as straightforward as the official one, but it is portable and resides within the document. Cheers, Siggi "Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote in ... siggi wrote: Hi all, can anybody help, please? System: MS Word 2003 on WinXP Prof 2002, SP 2, MS Office Prof 2003 Problem: with insert reference I can creat new categories for captions, and I can refer to these within the document. However, these new categories are saved in Normal.dot, not in the document. Hence, when I copy my document to different computer, I have either to create these categories anew or copy my old Normal.dot to this new computer. Is there a better way, such as fusing Normal.dot with a document or saving the new categories somehow with the document, making the document portable from computer to computer? I don't know of any such better method. If the document in question must be "fool proof", you need the creation method in code. If not, maybe a simple readme.txt file (well, readme.doc, more likely :-)) with instructions on how to create the category first) will help (the users who read documentation). Greetinx Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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It's actually worse than that: the caption labels are not stored in
Normal.dot but in the Registry. -- 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. "siggi" wrote in message ... Hi all, can anybody help, please? System: MS Word 2003 on WinXP Prof 2002, SP 2, MS Office Prof 2003 Problem: with insert reference I can creat new categories for captions, and I can refer to these within the document. However, these new categories are saved in Normal.dot, not in the document. Hence, when I copy my document to different computer, I have either to create these categories anew or copy my old Normal.dot to this new computer. Is there a better way, such as fusing Normal.dot with a document or saving the new categories somehow with the document, making the document portable from computer to computer? Thank you, Siggi |
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It's actually worse than that: the caption labels are not stored in Normal.dot but in the Registry. Strange, when I copy a Normal.dot file that holds the categories and labels over a Normal.dot file that does not, everything is ok again! What kind of registry are you talking about? Regedit? |
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I understood they were stored in the Windows Registry.
-- 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. "Siggi" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It's actually worse than that: the caption labels are not stored in Normal.dot but in the Registry. Strange, when I copy a Normal.dot file that holds the categories and labels over a Normal.dot file that does not, everything is ok again! What kind of registry are you talking about? Regedit? |
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I understood they were stored in the Windows Registry. Nope! Robert M. Franz in microsoft.public.de pointed me to this link that clearly states that they are stored in Normal.dot (sorry, the text is in German): http://mypage.bluewin.ch/reprobst/Wo...htm#Baustein07 This is my own experience, too, see my posting from 9/20/2006 above. Try it yourself and forget the registry. |
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Hi Suzanne
Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: I understood they were stored in the Windows Registry. ISTR discussions about this before. Do you have an MSFT site handy that sheds some light here? The fact that Word says it has to save normal.dot seems to be a good indication that this is actually the place where the categories are saved, though by no means I would bet money on it ... :-) Greetinx Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Apparently I'm wrong; I guess that the complaint was that it is virtually
impossible to transfer them to another machine since they can't be stored in a *document* template. -- 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. "Robert M. Franz (RMF)" wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: I understood they were stored in the Windows Registry. ISTR discussions about this before. Do you have an MSFT site handy that sheds some light here? The fact that Word says it has to save normal.dot seems to be a good indication that this is actually the place where the categories are saved, though by no means I would bet money on it ... :-) Greetinx Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Apparently I'm wrong; I guess that the complaint was that it is virtually impossible to transfer them to another machine since they can't be stored in a *document* template. That I remember, indeed! I'm still not entirely convinced which part it is now (normal.dot or Registry), but hey, we're not really liable to document this application! ;-) Greetinx Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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