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normal.dot - where is it in vista
I need to change my normal.dot. I am using word2003. I can not locate it
in vista. i knew where it was in xp; did a search including hidden and system files and still couldn't find it. please advise. thank you |
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normal.dot - where is it in vista
PS i did go to the microsoft help page on it and it said to click the windows
button, then 'open' then open 'templates' i can not find anything that says 'open' after i click the windows button. I get a list of programs on the left, and on the right a lot of choices, none of which say 'open' "lschaefer33" wrote: I need to change my normal.dot. I am using word2003. I can not locate it in vista. i knew where it was in xp; did a search including hidden and system files and still couldn't find it. please advise. thank you |
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normal.dot - where is it in vista
On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 09:24:00 -0800, lschaefer33
wrote: I need to change my normal.dot. I am using word2003. I can not locate it in vista. i knew where it was in xp; did a search including hidden and system files and still couldn't find it. please advise. thank you Copy the following line and paste it into the address bar of the Computer application: %appdata%\Microsoft\Templates Then press Enter. That will take you to the default location of the Office templates. The same address works in both Windows XP and Windows Vista, because the %appdata% part points to the Application Data folder in XP and the AppData folder in Vista, both under the current user's profile. That way you don't have to know the exact location or the Windows version. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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normal.dot - where is it in vista
thank you for this information. I am not sure what you mean by 'address bar of the computer application" I was using explorer to try to find normal.dot. when i put %appdata%\Microsoft\Templates in the search field, it yields no results. Can you please provide further information? Thank you. Copy the following line and paste it into the address bar of the Computer application: %appdata%\Microsoft\Templates Then press Enter. That will take you to the default location of the Office templates. The same address works in both Windows XP and Windows Vista, because the %appdata% part points to the Application Data folder in XP and the AppData folder in Vista, both under the current user's profile. That way you don't have to know the exact location or the Windows version. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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normal.dot - where is it in vista
Microsoft has made it hard to describe these things because they keep changing
the names, and some things don't have visible labels any more, while other things look different depending on what options you have set. In Vista, if you have the default Start menu with a "Start Search" box at the bottom, click in that box and type Computer, then click the word Computer in the list of programs. If you have changed the Start menu to use the "Classic Start menu", there is no "Start Search" box, but there will be a Computer icon on the desktop to double-click. Either of these actions opens the file management window formerly known as "Windows Explorer" (not to be confused with the browser called Internet Explorer). In that window, the address bar is at the top, just to the right of the back and forward buttons. It is _not_ the Search box -- that's further to the right. Don't try to search for %appdata% or anything involving it, because the search engine doesn't understand that alias (technically, it's a reference to an environment variable). Just paste the expression into the address bar and press Enter. On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 19:19:01 -0800, lschaefer33 wrote: thank you for this information. I am not sure what you mean by 'address bar of the computer application" I was using explorer to try to find normal.dot. when i put %appdata%\Microsoft\Templates in the search field, it yields no results. Can you please provide further information? Thank you. Copy the following line and paste it into the address bar of the Computer application: %appdata%\Microsoft\Templates Then press Enter. That will take you to the default location of the Office templates. The same address works in both Windows XP and Windows Vista, because the %appdata% part points to the Application Data folder in XP and the AppData folder in Vista, both under the current user's profile. That way you don't have to know the exact location or the Windows version. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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