Ok get this: So I thought I knew what I was doing at least with regard to
normal.dot. I believed I knew what it was the boss of. But I had no real
idea what NORMAL.DOT is all about, not really. Basically, it appears to be
King of S**t Mountain. You guys might laugh, but all of the super irritating
problems below I accidentally brought on myself by switching the "user
templates" default location folder. I did this in an effort to get Word to
see the "journal" template I'd tried to make -- the one with no formatting.
When I turned off Word and then opened it again, it made a new normal.dot of
its own, with none of the fancy whistles I'd just made, and of course it left
all my macros behind in the old normal.dot.

Now, all of this makes sense to me except the part where normal.dot is where
toolbar/button configurations are also kept. Did you all know that? What is
that about? Is that even ok?

Why does Word not have some bigass warning popop or something when you go to
retardedly change the default user template location? Like, "Hey jackass!
If you do that, you'll lose all your custom Word configurations unless you
backup normal.dot and put it in that other folder, because Word's too stupid
to bring it along for you."

Is it just me?

Because some people would have their knickers in a twist if a popup window
in a software program called them a jackass?

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Mockingbirdbat" wrote in message
...
Ok get this: So I thought I knew what I was doing at least with regard to
normal.dot. I believed I knew what it was the boss of. But I had no real
idea what NORMAL.DOT is all about, not really. Basically, it appears to
be
King of S**t Mountain. You guys might laugh, but all of the super
irritating
problems below I accidentally brought on myself by switching the "user
templates" default location folder. I did this in an effort to get Word
to
see the "journal" template I'd tried to make -- the one with no
formatting.
When I turned off Word and then opened it again, it made a new normal.dot
of
its own, with none of the fancy whistles I'd just made, and of course it
left
all my macros behind in the old normal.dot.

Now, all of this makes sense to me except the part where normal.dot is
where
toolbar/button configurations are also kept. Did you all know that? What
is
that about? Is that even ok?

Why does Word not have some bigass warning popop or something when you go
to
retardedly change the default user template location? Like, "Hey jackass!
If you do that, you'll lose all your custom Word configurations unless you
backup normal.dot and put it in that other folder, because Word's too
stupid
to bring it along for you."

Is it just me?

Almost everything that you do with a computer, except for perhaps depressing
the Shift key alone, causes something to happen. Where would you draw the
line about warning people about what was going to happen?

You press the 'a' key 'Hey Jackass this will insert an 'a' at the location
of the cursor. Are you sure that you really want to do this?'

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Mockingbirdbat" wrote in message
...
Ok get this: So I thought I knew what I was doing at least with regard to
normal.dot. I believed I knew what it was the boss of. But I had no real
idea what NORMAL.DOT is all about, not really. Basically, it appears to
be
King of S**t Mountain. You guys might laugh, but all of the super
irritating
problems below I accidentally brought on myself by switching the "user
templates" default location folder. I did this in an effort to get Word
to
see the "journal" template I'd tried to make -- the one with no
formatting.
When I turned off Word and then opened it again, it made a new normal.dot
of
its own, with none of the fancy whistles I'd just made, and of course it
left
all my macros behind in the old normal.dot.

Now, all of this makes sense to me except the part where normal.dot is
where
toolbar/button configurations are also kept. Did you all know that? What
is
that about? Is that even ok?

Why does Word not have some bigass warning popop or something when you go
to
retardedly change the default user template location? Like, "Hey jackass!
If you do that, you'll lose all your custom Word configurations unless you
backup normal.dot and put it in that other folder, because Word's too
stupid
to bring it along for you."

Is it just me?

Wow. I hope you're kidding, because otherwise I might think you were being
patronizing.

I"m also going to assume your questions (below) are rhetorical, and are just
part of the "joke."

Just in case I'm wrong, though -- will someone please let me know if I'm not
in the right forum? Because I"m looking for the one where people who use the
word processing program MS Word meet and talk about problems/solutions
related to working with said program, and have *discussions* based on their
experiences.

Thanks to all others who responded to last night's semi-hysterical posts.
I'm not usually so easily confused or frustrated, but I'm sure this is *not*
the forum where you talk about why your personal problems are keeping you
awake at 3 in the morning.

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

Almost everything that you do with a computer, except for perhaps depressing
the Shift key alone, causes something to happen. Where would you draw the
line about warning people about what was going to happen?

You press the 'a' key 'Hey Jackass this will insert an 'a' at the location
of the cursor. Are you sure that you really want to do this?'

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

"Mockingbirdbat" wrote in message
...
Ok get this: So I thought I knew what I was doing at least with regard to
normal.dot. I believed I knew what it was the boss of. But I had no real
idea what NORMAL.DOT is all about, not really. Basically, it appears to
be
King of S**t Mountain. You guys might laugh, but all of the super
irritating
problems below I accidentally brought on myself by switching the "user
templates" default location folder. I did this in an effort to get Word
to
see the "journal" template I'd tried to make -- the one with no
formatting.
When I turned off Word and then opened it again, it made a new normal.dot
of
its own, with none of the fancy whistles I'd just made, and of course it
left
all my macros behind in the old normal.dot.

Now, all of this makes sense to me except the part where normal.dot is
where
toolbar/button configurations are also kept. Did you all know that? What
is
that about? Is that even ok?

Why does Word not have some bigass warning popop or something when you go
to
retardedly change the default user template location? Like, "Hey jackass!
If you do that, you'll lose all your custom Word configurations unless you
backup normal.dot and put it in that other folder, because Word's too
stupid
to bring it along for you."

Is it just me?

Not me. I'd rather get busted before I accidentally make some kind of crazy,
global change in a program, than spend hours afterward trying to figure out
what I did so I can fix it.

Wouldn't it be awesome if you could turn on "jackass function" in a program
when you need to, and then turn it off when you've got the hang of it? Like
a boot camp for learning the program fast and hard.

I know - some people call this a "tutorial."

"JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote:

Because some people would have their knickers in a twist if a popup window
in a software program called them a jackass?

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Mockingbirdbat" wrote in message
...
Ok get this: So I thought I knew what I was doing at least with regard to
normal.dot. I believed I knew what it was the boss of. But I had no real
idea what NORMAL.DOT is all about, not really. Basically, it appears to
be
King of S**t Mountain. You guys might laugh, but all of the super
irritating
problems below I accidentally brought on myself by switching the "user
templates" default location folder. I did this in an effort to get Word
to
see the "journal" template I'd tried to make -- the one with no
formatting.
When I turned off Word and then opened it again, it made a new normal.dot
of
its own, with none of the fancy whistles I'd just made, and of course it
left
all my macros behind in the old normal.dot.

Now, all of this makes sense to me except the part where normal.dot is
where
toolbar/button configurations are also kept. Did you all know that? What
is
that about? Is that even ok?

Why does Word not have some bigass warning popop or something when you go
to
retardedly change the default user template location? Like, "Hey jackass!
If you do that, you'll lose all your custom Word configurations unless you
backup normal.dot and put it in that other folder, because Word's too
stupid
to bring it along for you."

Is it just me?

It's an amusing thought but I find that a lot of people don't always
appreciate my sense of humor.

(You should hear my great idea on how to stop shoplifters.)

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Mockingbirdbat" wrote in message
...
Not me. I'd rather get busted before I accidentally make some kind of
crazy,
global change in a program, than spend hours afterward trying to figure
out
what I did so I can fix it.

Wouldn't it be awesome if you could turn on "jackass function" in a
program
when you need to, and then turn it off when you've got the hang of it?
Like
a boot camp for learning the program fast and hard.

I know - some people call this a "tutorial."

"JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote:

Because some people would have their knickers in a twist if a popup
window
in a software program called them a jackass?

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Mockingbirdbat" wrote in
message
...
Ok get this: So I thought I knew what I was doing at least with regard
to
normal.dot. I believed I knew what it was the boss of. But I had no
real
idea what NORMAL.DOT is all about, not really. Basically, it appears
to
be
King of S**t Mountain. You guys might laugh, but all of the super
irritating
problems below I accidentally brought on myself by switching the "user
templates" default location folder. I did this in an effort to get
Word
to
see the "journal" template I'd tried to make -- the one with no
formatting.
When I turned off Word and then opened it again, it made a new
normal.dot
of
its own, with none of the fancy whistles I'd just made, and of course
it
left
all my macros behind in the old normal.dot.

Now, all of this makes sense to me except the part where normal.dot is
where
toolbar/button configurations are also kept. Did you all know that?
What
is
that about? Is that even ok?

Why does Word not have some bigass warning popop or something when you
go
to
retardedly change the default user template location? Like, "Hey
jackass!
If you do that, you'll lose all your custom Word configurations unless
you
backup normal.dot and put it in that other folder, because Word's too
stupid
to bring it along for you."

Is it just me?

Oh please -- I want to hear your idea. I find that people whose senses of
humor are often misunderstood are usually the people that can make me laugh
the hardest.

Where's the "Totally Irrelevant to Office or Even Really Computers for That
Matter Discussion Forum"?

--KK

"JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote:

It's an amusing thought but I find that a lot of people don't always
appreciate my sense of humor.

(You should hear my great idea on how to stop shoplifters.)

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Mockingbirdbat" wrote in message
...
Not me. I'd rather get busted before I accidentally make some kind of
crazy,
global change in a program, than spend hours afterward trying to figure
out
what I did so I can fix it.

Wouldn't it be awesome if you could turn on "jackass function" in a
program
when you need to, and then turn it off when you've got the hang of it?
Like
a boot camp for learning the program fast and hard.

I know - some people call this a "tutorial."

"JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote:

Because some people would have their knickers in a twist if a popup
window
in a software program called them a jackass?

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Mockingbirdbat" wrote in
message
...
Ok get this: So I thought I knew what I was doing at least with regard
to
normal.dot. I believed I knew what it was the boss of. But I had no
real
idea what NORMAL.DOT is all about, not really. Basically, it appears
to
be
King of S**t Mountain. You guys might laugh, but all of the super
irritating
problems below I accidentally brought on myself by switching the "user
templates" default location folder. I did this in an effort to get
Word
to
see the "journal" template I'd tried to make -- the one with no
formatting.
When I turned off Word and then opened it again, it made a new
normal.dot
of
its own, with none of the fancy whistles I'd just made, and of course
it
left
all my macros behind in the old normal.dot.

Now, all of this makes sense to me except the part where normal.dot is
where
toolbar/button configurations are also kept. Did you all know that?
What
is
that about? Is that even ok?

Why does Word not have some bigass warning popop or something when you
go
to
retardedly change the default user template location? Like, "Hey
jackass!
If you do that, you'll lose all your custom Word configurations unless
you
backup normal.dot and put it in that other folder, because Word's too
stupid
to bring it along for you."

Is it just me?

Those little sensors that (sometimes but not always) set off the alarms at
the store door need to emit a strong enough jolt to drop the thief right on
the spot. Non-lethal, you understand, but enough to drop them. I guarantee
you that shoplifters would stop stealing, clerks would make sure the tags
were removed, and the honest customer would double-check for those tags.

Some killjoy always mentions pacemakers (if you have one, you shouldn't be
stealing!) and lawsuits. I still maintain that my idea would work. ;-)

As for that "TITOOERCFTM" newsgroup, I don't know. I think that why blogs
were invented.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Mockingbirdbat" wrote in message
...
Oh please -- I want to hear your idea. I find that people whose senses of
humor are often misunderstood are usually the people that can make me
laugh
the hardest.

Where's the "Totally Irrelevant to Office or Even Really Computers for
That
Matter Discussion Forum"?

--KK

"JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote:

It's an amusing thought but I find that a lot of people don't always
appreciate my sense of humor.

(You should hear my great idea on how to stop shoplifters.)

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Mockingbirdbat" wrote in
message
...
Not me. I'd rather get busted before I accidentally make some kind of
crazy,
global change in a program, than spend hours afterward trying to figure
out
what I did so I can fix it.

Wouldn't it be awesome if you could turn on "jackass function" in a
program
when you need to, and then turn it off when you've got the hang of it?
Like
a boot camp for learning the program fast and hard.

I know - some people call this a "tutorial."

"JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote:

Because some people would have their knickers in a twist if a popup
window
in a software program called them a jackass?

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Mockingbirdbat" wrote in
message
...
Ok get this: So I thought I knew what I was doing at least with
regard
to
normal.dot. I believed I knew what it was the boss of. But I had
no
real
idea what NORMAL.DOT is all about, not really. Basically, it
appears
to
be
King of S**t Mountain. You guys might laugh, but all of the super
irritating
problems below I accidentally brought on myself by switching the
"user
templates" default location folder. I did this in an effort to get
Word
to
see the "journal" template I'd tried to make -- the one with no
formatting.
When I turned off Word and then opened it again, it made a new
normal.dot
of
its own, with none of the fancy whistles I'd just made, and of
course
it
left
all my macros behind in the old normal.dot.

Now, all of this makes sense to me except the part where normal.dot
is
where
toolbar/button configurations are also kept. Did you all know that?
What
is
that about? Is that even ok?

Why does Word not have some bigass warning popop or something when
you
go
to
retardedly change the default user template location? Like, "Hey
jackass!
If you do that, you'll lose all your custom Word configurations
unless
you
backup normal.dot and put it in that other folder, because Word's
too
stupid
to bring it along for you."

Is it just me?