Re: OK here's what I did about my normal.dot.

From: CyberCafe (pkbk_at_badger.tds.net)
Date: 06/29/04 

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 00:53:39 -0500

Becky Young wrote:

> I don't know if this was right or wrong, but it worked. It took me since 5 a.m.
> today to do this and my work.
>
> My computer froze again today. While it was frozen with the Start menu up on
> the screen, I manipulated around behind everything and found normal.dot that I
> was working under - with all the macros I'd re-added - and saved it as
> normalold.dot.
>
> I went over to Program Files and deleted normal.dot. I had to do it like 2-3
> times for some reason, it wouldn't take. Then I renamed normalold.dot to
> normal.dot.
>
> So far it is working. I still don't know WHY it happened in the first place
> other than the clap of thunder that took out the lights last week - that is
> when this thing started thinking about messing up.
>
> I want to thank those of you who sent me links and tried to help me. Learning
> this stuff as I go has been pretty frustrating over the years, but every time I
> learn something, that's one more thing I don't have to panic over.
>
> Now my quest is to find out why I can't save that word MR#: and have it stick.
> Becky Young

I should have stuck my two cents in here before. The normal.dot template should
not be changed. The blank.doc is a carbon copy of the normal.dot template. You
should never save any formatting changes, macros, etc. back as a blank.dot or you
will never have a clean *** of paper again; you have to resave it with a new .dot
name such as blank2.dot. Once you save it with a .dot extension, it should
automatically bring up a carbon copy with a .doc extension in the same location as
the blank.doc (well actually you can specify which tab you want to store that new
.doc template).

I've seen people working, typing, directly into a .dot template because they are
totally confused as to what a .dot versus a .doc is.

Short and sweet, never work in a .dot template. You work in a copy of that
template, which is a .doc template and then save the new template as a .dot and it
will automatically create a .doc for you.

Barb