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blank documents contain characters in Word
I attempt to open a blank document and it opens an old document that I had
saved. Any advise? product: Word 2003 |
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This is a frequent question. Your normal.dot got corrupted. Close Word,
search for normal.dot, making sure that you have set Folder Options to Display Hidden Files. Delete the file and restart Word. It will create a new normal.dot. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm "srb" wrote in message ... I attempt to open a blank document and it opens an old document that I had saved. Any advise? product: Word 2003 |
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This is not, incidentally, the advice in the link you quote
*Rename* normal.dot rather than delete it, to preserve the personalisations it will contain. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Joe McGuire wrote: This is a frequent question. Your normal.dot got corrupted. Close Word, search for normal.dot, making sure that you have set Folder Options to Display Hidden Files. Delete the file and restart Word. It will create a new normal.dot. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm "srb" wrote in message ... I attempt to open a blank document and it opens an old document that I had saved. Any advise? product: Word 2003 |
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Thanks. My suggestion reduced a few pages of explanation to the barest
essence: the really short answer. My wife would marvel at my unaccustomed brevity. "Just give me the short answer!" is her anthem. But yes, renaming the "bad" normal.dot is probably the better way, particularly if the user had significantly customized the normal template. This would provide an opportunity to salvage some or perhaps all of it. The complete answer, of course, is contained in the link and probably in other papers as well. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... This is not, incidentally, the advice in the link you quote *Rename* normal.dot rather than delete it, to preserve the personalisations it will contain. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Joe McGuire wrote: This is a frequent question. Your normal.dot got corrupted. Close Word, search for normal.dot, making sure that you have set Folder Options to Display Hidden Files. Delete the file and restart Word. It will create a new normal.dot. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm "srb" wrote in message ... I attempt to open a blank document and it opens an old document that I had saved. Any advise? product: Word 2003 |
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The problem is that by quoting the solution the user is not likely to view
the link. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Joe McGuire wrote: Thanks. My suggestion reduced a few pages of explanation to the barest essence: the really short answer. My wife would marvel at my unaccustomed brevity. "Just give me the short answer!" is her anthem. But yes, renaming the "bad" normal.dot is probably the better way, particularly if the user had significantly customized the normal template. This would provide an opportunity to salvage some or perhaps all of it. The complete answer, of course, is contained in the link and probably in other papers as well. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... This is not, incidentally, the advice in the link you quote *Rename* normal.dot rather than delete it, to preserve the personalisations it will contain. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Joe McGuire wrote: This is a frequent question. Your normal.dot got corrupted. Close Word, search for normal.dot, making sure that you have set Folder Options to Display Hidden Files. Delete the file and restart Word. It will create a new normal.dot. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm "srb" wrote in message ... I attempt to open a blank document and it opens an old document that I had saved. Any advise? product: Word 2003 |
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Or, as I did the other day, adding what I thought was a supplement to the
link only to realize it was likely to be viewed as an answer and to prevent the person from going to the link. On 9/22/05 10:58 PM, "Graham Mayor" wrote: The problem is that by quoting the solution the user is not likely to view the link. |
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