We have all sorts of macros and styles and auto-text entries in our
Normal.dot. At the moment, we are sharing it. What i mean is that there are
two copies of Word and we specified the same template folder for both. That
is fine, except for if both copies are being used at one time. Then, we can't
save changes to normal.dot.

I understand that I could just use the Organizer to move individual macros
and styles to a separate Normal template for the second computer, but if I do
that, each time that a style or a macro gets modified on one machine, the
user would have to remember to manually copy it to the other Normal template.

Is there some way that I can have several machines all sharing the same
macros, styles, auto-text, etc. with any changes to these being shared on
all the machines?

Thanks in advance.

Martin

Normal.dot is designed to be personal, not shared. You can, though, share
other templates that are global (i.e. not connected to a specific document).

See http://addbalance.com/word/movetotemplate.htm for step-by-step
instructions on moving / sharing / copying / backing-up customizations
including AutoText, AutoCorrect, keyboard assignments, toolbars, macros,
etc.
--

Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"Martin" wrote in message
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We have all sorts of macros and styles and auto-text entries in our
Normal.dot. At the moment, we are sharing it. What i mean is that there
are
two copies of Word and we specified the same template folder for both.
That
is fine, except for if both copies are being used at one time. Then, we
can't
save changes to normal.dot.

I understand that I could just use the Organizer to move individual macros
and styles to a separate Normal template for the second computer, but if I
do
that, each time that a style or a macro gets modified on one machine, the
user would have to remember to manually copy it to the other Normal
template.

Is there some way that I can have several machines all sharing the same
macros, styles, auto-text, etc. with any changes to these being shared on
all the machines?

Thanks in advance.

Martin