normal.dot file

  • Thread starter Thread starter Nancy
  • Start date Start date
N

Nancy

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this
question or not, but hopefully someone will be able to
help. I'm trying to help out a friend, and am no turning
here for your help to help me help her (confusing, huh!).
Here's what she wrote me .. any help (email me please)
would be greatly appreciated!

i transferred the normal.dot file from my computer to my
amphion computer and went to save the file last week and
it will not save. if i open my normal.dot file, there is
nothing in it, yet it shows a file size. if i open the one
on my computer, i can open the file and see the whole
list. i can't figure this out. do you know if there is a
way to find out if the normal.dot file is where my things
are being saved. it is saving any changes i make and i
copied it just like i was told on the page you sent
before. i did the transfer from one computer to another,
so if it was saved to the normal.dot file, i can't figure
out why it wouldn't be there. i hate to not back it up and
risk losing that file too, as i have made so many changes
to it already. any ideas?
 
Ask a Word or Office newsgroup instead.

To direct you in a given direction, the normal.dot file is a Word template
container. It only keeps global changes to Styles, toolbars, templates and
Macros that you want loaded when any document is opened or created. It has
no text or objects by default. It also gets regenerated should you decide to
delete it (loosing any changes made previously). If what you are looking for
is a document, search for *.doc extensions instead.

You should consider making a backup of your dot template, specially if the
same template file is being shared accross an organisation/ workgroup. You
can also restrict modifications to a given group or user. To transfer a Word
template to another computer without the benefit of a network's single point
of access, replace the normal.dot file being used on the other computer.
Course, this implies careful procedure (imagine specifying a body text style
based on a specific font and that specific font doesn't exist on the target
system).
 
Back
Top