[mso] Re: normal.dot won't recreate itself.

  • From: "Intelligence Corporate Services Ltd." <information@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:37:03 +0000

I'm grateful to those who tried to answer my question re. Word ceasing 
up but since I was never sent a password to the website in general I 
have no idea how to thank all the individuals who tried to help with my 
issue or how to engage with the site generally without a password.
All pointers welcome.

Best,

K.Duke

David Grugeon wrote:
> Normal.dot is only created when there is something to save in it.  If you
> make a change to, say, a toolbar or the default font while word is open and
> then close it, it will create the new Normal.dot.
>
> Best Regards
>  
> David Grugeon
> Grugeon Consulting
> (07) 3263 7786
>
> Original message:
>
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>> Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 10:36 PM
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>> Subject: [mso] normal.dot won't recreate itself.
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>> Dear Linda,
>> Firstly, many thanks in advance for any help you may be able to offer me
>> - I am tearing my hair out at the moment!
>>
>> I have thoroughly read the Word Troubleshooting tutorial on your
>> personal tutor website (it was very clear and user-friendly; thank you),
>> but here's the thing .... Word (I have Word 2003) has been slowing down
>> on my computer for some time.  Yesterday morning it started refusing to
>> save changes to documents; in fact closing any document brought up the
>> 'Microsoft Word has encountered a problem and needs to close' message.
>> It just crashed on exiting every time, (and 'Word is not responding'
>> came up when it tried to rescue save my work).  As of this morning this
>> happens when trying to even open Word.  I followed your tutorial (and
>> did a full virus scan with Avast and a defrag, possibly irrelevantly),
>> and while Word will open fine if I run 'winword.exe /a' as suggested, no
>> new normal.dot template comes into existence!  I deleted the normal.dot
>> (I had two) items I found when I searched for them and now no new one
>> gets made when I launch Word.  What's that all about?  I have Googled
>> and so on all day and night and found no solution.
>>
>> There were no Add-Ins.  I tried deleting the Data folder in the registry
>> key - No effect.  I did Detect and Repair - No effect.  I will only
>> uninstall and reinstall if absolutely necessary and if I think it will
>> actually work.  Since Word is launching fine from 'winword.exe /a' will
>> uninstalling and reinstalling even work?  I have a hell of a lot of work
>> on my computer (though not more than it's capable of handling), and
>> Excel etc. are fine so I'm afraid to wipe Office out.  Do you know what
>> might be happening here and if uninstalling is the way to go?
>>
>> Warm regards,
>>
>> Katherine Duke
>>
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