atw: FW: More on normal.dotm

 

These are the instructions I have written so far for getting a clean
normal.dotm, but there are still a lot of unknowns.  (Warren, was it you who
gave detailed instructions for this – what have I missed?)

 

1    Locate your default template location for Normal.dotm through Office,
Word Options, Advanced, File locations, User templates, and write down.

2    Close all remaining applications except Windows Explorer.

3    Go to your default template location in Windows Explorer,  and rename
normal.dotm to something totally different and memorable – this is important
so that you have an accessible backup copy if necessary.

4    Search your entire drive for additional copies and delete or rename.

5    Close Windows Explorer.

6    Empty the recycle bin on the desktop or open and delete all instances
of normal.dotm.

7    Launch Word.  A new version is placed in your default template
location.

 

Step 1 - Is there an easier way of finding the path?

 

Step 4 - There are loads of additional copies, many of which are associated
with internet explorer and resident on My Computer.  Does anyone know the
impact of deleting these?  

 

Step 6 – Everything gone; no Normal.dotm appears anywhere when a search of
the C: drive is done. So far so good.

 

Step 7 – Open Word.  Goodie, relief, a blank document opens clearly on
Normal.dotm.  Is this totally pristine? I still don’t know.

 

BUT BUT BUT a search of the C: drive or My Computer reveals no Normal.dotm
anywhere, including the default templates folder.  Where is it?  I open
Word, go into the Templates and Add-ins dialog box, it says the newly opened
document is attached to “normal”.  When I click Attach to go to the default
templates location, all my other templates are there, but no Normal.dotm.
If I go into Organiser, it calls the open template Normal.dotm.

 

I have an external hard drive on F: with a full backup of C.  I disconnect
this.  Word is still finding a Normal from somewhere, and is NOT putting it
into the default templates folder or anywhere else accessible/searchable on
my C: drive.

 

Clearly I cannot tell others how to do this until I understand it better.

 

 

Regards, Christine
0407 604010
03 6356 1007 

 

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