Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-6802995; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit At 13:07 01/05/2003 -0700, you wrote: >I wanted to set some autoshape defaults in my normal.dot file and when >I'm all done setting it what I want, it won't let me save to an "open >file". Can anyone tell me how to successfully change my normal.dot? Change it to normal1.dot Then go into the msword file and rename normal.dot to normal.old and normal1.dot to normal.dot There might be a prettier way but this one works. Lynne Connolly, GSOLFOT VANESSA from <http://www.awe-struck.net/>Awe-Struck books, 4 stars from RT! YORKSHIRE, from <http://www.novelbooksinc.com/>Novelbooks Inc<http://www.novelbooksinc.com/>. EPPIE award finalist, 2003 DEVONSHIRE Finalist Dorothy Parker Award 2003 http://www.geocities.com/lynne_connolly2001/ ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************