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MS Office Forum / Word / Long Documents / December 2003Tearing myself away from normal.dot
I've added a whole bunch of things to my normal.dot file over the years: macros, styles, autotexts, etc. But I've heard that it's not safe to put everything into normal.dot, in case of corruption. So, is the solution as simple as just copying and renaming normal.dot to, say, Mytemplate.dot? If so, how can I then make Mytemplate.dot become the standard global template from which all new blank documents inherit their styles? (In other words, Normal.dot and the new Mytemplate.dot will now possess identical style names, but I will want Mytemplate.dot's style definitions to prevail). Thank you! -Phil You shouldn't do the first thing you suggest and you can't do the second. Styles belong in document templates, one for each type of document you create; these templates can also store the macros, toolbars, and AutoText entries that are useful for creating those documents, along with the document layout (margins, page size and orientation, header/footer, any boilerplate text, etc). You can also store macros, toolbars, and AutoText entries in a global template loaded as an add-in. Just create MyTemplate.dot and put it in Word's Startup folder. It will be loaded when you start Word, and all its macros, toolbars, and AutoText (but not styles or document layout) will be available in all documents you create. For more, see http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Customization/CustomizeNormalTemplate.htm and http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Customization/CreateATemplatePart1.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word)  SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > I've added a whole bunch of things to my normal.dot file over the > years: macros, styles, autotexts, etc. But I've heard that it's not [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Thank you! > -Phil Normal.dot is more robust than you give it credit for. Keep a backup or two. I haved not lost a normal.dot since Office 95 - and mine has umpteen personalisations and a lot of macros and currently stands at 1.6mb Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>>< ><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP E-mail gmayor@mvps.org Web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>>< ><<> > I've added a whole bunch of things to my normal.dot file over the > years: macros, styles, autotexts, etc. But I've heard that it's not [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Thank you! > -Phil Agreed. I have never had to rename Normal.dot (knock on wood). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > Normal.dot is more robust than you give it credit for. Keep a backup or two. > I haved not lost a normal.dot since Office 95 - and mine has umpteen [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > Thank you! > > -Phil |
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