I usually work in print view. Recently, when I open a new blank document and
start typing, when i get to the end of the page I can keep typing but no new
blank page appears with the extra typing on it - like it used to. If I go to
Normal or outline view, I can see the material.

In Word, open your normal.dot template, click on Format | Columns | One
| Apply to: Whole document | OK. Even if "One" already appears to be
selected, click on it anyway. Type a character or two and then delete
what you just typed. Save your normal.dot template. In Word 2002 and
2003, normal.dot should be a hidden file in the "C:\Documents and
Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates" folder.

Meetroid wrote:

I usually work in print view. Recently, when I open a new blank document and
start typing, when i get to the end of the page I can keep typing but no new
blank page appears with the extra typing on it - like it used to. If I go to
Normal or outline view, I can see the material.

Thanks for your post - Sorry to be an ignoramus - but I found the file using
Search because I couldn't see it when I looked in the OPEN dialog in WORD.
But when I double clicked on normal.dot in Explorer, it just opened a new Doc
NN file in WORD and not something named normal.dot

I did note that the last change to the normal.dot template was long before i
started having this problem. Can you tell me how to actually open
normal.dot? I'm using Word 2000

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:

In Word, open your normal.dot template, click on Format | Columns | One
| Apply to: Whole document | OK. Even if "One" already appears to be
selected, click on it anyway. Type a character or two and then delete
what you just typed. Save your normal.dot template. In Word 2002 and
2003, normal.dot should be a hidden file in the "C:\Documents and
Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates" folder.

Meetroid wrote:

I usually work in print view. Recently, when I open a new blank document and
start typing, when i get to the end of the page I can keep typing but no new
blank page appears with the extra typing on it - like it used to. If I go to
Normal or outline view, I can see the material.

The default action for .dot files is New, not Open. If you want to open
Normal.dot for editing from Explorer (as opposed to from within Word), you
have to right-click and choose Open.

--
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.

"Meetroid" wrote in message
...
Thanks for your post - Sorry to be an ignoramus - but I found the file
using
Search because I couldn't see it when I looked in the OPEN dialog in WORD.
But when I double clicked on normal.dot in Explorer, it just opened a new
Doc
NN file in WORD and not something named normal.dot

I did note that the last change to the normal.dot template was long before
i
started having this problem. Can you tell me how to actually open
normal.dot? I'm using Word 2000

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:

In Word, open your normal.dot template, click on Format | Columns | One
| Apply to: Whole document | OK. Even if "One" already appears to be
selected, click on it anyway. Type a character or two and then delete
what you just typed. Save your normal.dot template. In Word 2002 and
2003, normal.dot should be a hidden file in the "C:\Documents and
Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates" folder.

Meetroid wrote:

I usually work in print view. Recently, when I open a new blank
document and
start typing, when i get to the end of the page I can keep typing but
no new
blank page appears with the extra typing on it - like it used to. If
I go to
Normal or outline view, I can see the material.

That solved the problem - but why? Thanks a bunch. It was REALLY an
annoying problem and I didn't have a clue... And also Suzanne's hint about
how to open the dopey file (which I couldn't actually SEE from inside WORD).
You guys are TOP DOGS!

So double thanks a bunch...

C!

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:

In Word, open your normal.dot template, click on Format | Columns | One
| Apply to: Whole document | OK. Even if "One" already appears to be
selected, click on it anyway. Type a character or two and then delete
what you just typed. Save your normal.dot template. In Word 2002 and
2003, normal.dot should be a hidden file in the "C:\Documents and
Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates" folder.

Meetroid wrote:

I usually work in print view. Recently, when I open a new blank document and
start typing, when i get to the end of the page I can keep typing but no new
blank page appears with the extra typing on it - like it used to. If I go to
Normal or outline view, I can see the material.

For some bizarre reason, sometimes Word decides you have more than one
column in the document but formats the first column to the margin width,
leaving no room for an additional column.

--
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.

"Meetroid" wrote in message
...
That solved the problem - but why? Thanks a bunch. It was REALLY an
annoying problem and I didn't have a clue... And also Suzanne's hint
about
how to open the dopey file (which I couldn't actually SEE from inside
WORD).
You guys are TOP DOGS!

So double thanks a bunch...

C!

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:

In Word, open your normal.dot template, click on Format | Columns | One
| Apply to: Whole document | OK. Even if "One" already appears to be
selected, click on it anyway. Type a character or two and then delete
what you just typed. Save your normal.dot template. In Word 2002 and
2003, normal.dot should be a hidden file in the "C:\Documents and
Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates" folder.

Meetroid wrote:

I usually work in print view. Recently, when I open a new blank
document and
start typing, when i get to the end of the page I can keep typing but
no new
blank page appears with the extra typing on it - like it used to. If
I go to
Normal or outline view, I can see the material.