atw: Re: Normal.dotm, round 2

Hi Christine,
You are quite right in your thinking that you'll need to create a standalone set of materials. I work at a university with a close association with an RTO - the uni study centre is in the same building as the RTO and both use the same network. The entire student network is re-Ghosted each week. There are about 10 computer labs and each has its own master image, depending on the software required for the room. You may also find that all files created and stored on C drive are deleted when someone logs in or out.
I did a class on templates and styles a few weeks ago to a group of adults with probably very typical computer skills. They could get around a computer and create documents but I'd say you not only need bullet-proof instructions but also reassuring instructions. 

John
----- Original Message ----- From: "Christine Kent" <christine_kent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 11:28 AM
Subject: atw: Normal.dotm, round 2



Thanks Michael and Anna.

I have done the delete routine as I explained in my question, and ended up
with a new Normal.dot, dated today - so far, so good.
I should maybe have talked about the problem I am trying to solve as you may 
have creative solutions for the specific problem that I am not aware of.

The course materials I am developing for TAFE and RTOs are dependent on
students having un-modified and uncorrupted versions of the templates I am
asking them to use, one of which is Normal.

On the whole I can assume an appalling level of software incompetence in
both teachers and students, so I will include hopefully bullet-proof
instructions in the teacher's manual on how to get a clean copy of Normal
onto a PC - that is the instructions you have sent, with thanks.  It will
also work for those students studying by correspondence and so working on
their own computers.  That is the easy bit.
However, I do not know kind of problems they may have if they are working on 
networked computers and with hostile and/or incompetent techos.  Features
may be locked down, or computer resident materials may be overwritten. As I am not working on a network with a friendly network administrator, I cannot 
test out what is possible.  (One place I worked overwrote our entire C:
drive daily so we could not customise anything!)  So I want to supply them
(maybe technically infringing copyright) with clean copies of the required
templates, so they have some kind of chance of being able to work with a
clean copy.  I want to ensure that this copy has no evidence of me or the
publisher in it, and certainly no inadvertent modifications that are not
removed when you do the delete template, delete deleted template, open Word routine. I checked Microsoft downloads to see if they have something there, 
but didn't find anything.  Some colleges have 2000 and 2003 downloads -
obviously to solve the same problem.

Bright ideas?

ck


-----Original Message-----
From: Ana Young [mailto:ana_young2000@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, 16 November 2007 9:41 AM
To: christine_kent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: atw: Normal.dotm

Hi Christine.

1) Close all applications that use Word (that includes
Outlook)
2) Find the location of your Word templates (in Word
go to Tools>Options>File Locations)
3) Close Word again
4) Rename / delete your Normal.dot (using Explorer)
5) Restart Word. Word creates a new Normal.dot if it
cannot find it.

You may have to creat and save a doc for Word to
create the template.

Make a copy of this new one for future reference. It
is handy to have it.

Cheers,
Ana

--- Christine Kent <christine_kent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi Guys
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> I want to revert to an unmodified version of
> Normal.dotm.  How do I find it
> or otherwise revert to a clean version?
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> I have deleted it and opened Word which has
> recreated it with today’s date –
> is this a clean version?
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> I have the disks for a legal copy of Office 2007,
> but it seems that locating
> usable files on disks now exceeds my level of
> technical competence.
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> ck
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