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A document has to be deleted each time Word is opened in order to use the new
document. I have to change the title each time too. I have deleted the
document every way I know how. What is causing this?
 
A document has to be deleted each time Word is opened in order to use the new
document. I have to change the title each time too. I have deleted the
document every way I know how. What is causing this?
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You will very likely do much better looking for help with a Word
problem in a Word newsgroup, rather than here in a Windows XP
newsgroup. Word newsgroups are where the Word experts hang out.
 
|A document has to be deleted each time Word is opened in order to use the new
| document. I have to change the title each time too. I have deleted the
| document every way I know how. What is causing this?

You problem is not a Windows Problem and you would get more help in a Word newsgroup.
But it sounds like you saved your document as the "normal.dot" template that opens when you ask for
a new document.

Solution to this is to do a search (make sure the search includes hidden files) for the file
'normal.dot'.
Then delete all copies you find.
Restart Word and it will make a new -blank- normal.dot file and you should be okay.
 
Blue_eyed1 said:
A document has to be deleted each time Word is opened in order to use
the new document. I have to change the title each time too. I have
deleted the document every way I know how. What is causing this?
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This question would be much better located in an Office or Word
newsgroup; it is not XP based. Please post Word questions in the Word
newsgroup.

It sounds like at some point you opened the normal.dot template instead
of using it to open a new document, typed into it, and saved it.

Method 1: Will definitely work.
That said, use Windows Explorer to find and delete ALL occurrences of
normal.dot on the hard drive/s.
When you start Word, a new, clean normal.dot will be created for you.
NOTE: If you have saved any macros etc. in normal.dot, they will be gone
and need to be recreated again. The program itself will be fine, just
things you saved in normal.dot will go missing since it becomes a new,
virgin file.

Method 2: Another way to do it but you have to know how to open
normal.dot for editing.
The other possibility is to use Word to open the TEMPLATE normal.dot,
delete the junk information in it, and resave it as a TEMPLATE. Note I
said template, not document; it's very important.

HTH,

Twayne
 
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