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MS Office Forum / Word / Menus and Toolbars / May 2005Normal.dot -- Seems to Disappear and Menu Settings Not Retained
Hi there, In Word 2002, I am trying to customize the toolbar so that the Outlining toolbar will show up each time I run Word. In the customizing window, I select the Outlining Toolbar with a check mark and then click on close. I have the option in Word selected to "prompt to save normal.dot." Word is not prompting me to save normal.dot when I exit. When I run Word again, my changes aren't there (the Outlining Toolbar is not showing). I also am noticing that there is NO normal.dot file saved in the folder where it's supposed to be at. In fact, I don't have any normal.dot on my hard drive at all. I'm not sure why it's not being saved, nor why Word is not asking me to save it each time I exit, which is what I asked Word to do. I have Adobe 6.0 Professional on my system, but I've removed pdfmaker.dot from the Office startup folder. Any clue on how I can proceed with this. At this point, I can't save any of my changes to Word. Please help. Thanks very much. ....Jason Hold down the shift key when clicking on the File Menu and select Save All.  SignatureCharles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. > Hi there, > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > ....Jason Thanks, Charles, for your help. In my Word version (2002), I can't seem to find a "Save All" command in the file menu, just save or save as. Am I missing something here. Please let me know what you think. Thanks much. ....Jason > Hold down the shift key when clicking on the File Menu and select Save > All. [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] >> >> ....Jason You need to hold down the Shift key when you click on File. SignatureCharles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. > Thanks, Charles, for your help. In my Word version (2002), I can't seem to > find a "Save All" command in the file menu, just save or save as. Am I [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] >>> >>> ....Jason OK, I found out how to get a Save All menu item listed. But still no success in saving my Outlining Toolbar. I write up a test file, which includes text on the page as well as the Outlining toolbar visible at the top of the screen. Then I do a save all. Word is NOT asking me, like it's supposed to, whether I want to save normal. Dot. Then, when I rerun Word, the Outlining toolbar is gone. Any ideas?? Thanks much. ....Jason > Hold down the shift key when clicking on the File Menu and select Save > All. [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] >> >> ....Jason No ideas on what is happening. You could save your toolbar to a custom global template. See http://addbalance.com/word/movetotemplate.htm for step-by-step instructions on moving / sharing / copying / backing-up customizations including AutoText, AutoCorrect, keyboard assignments, toolbars, macros, etc. SignatureCharles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. > OK, I found out how to get a Save All menu item listed. But still no > success in saving my Outlining Toolbar. I write up a test file, which [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] >>> >>> ....Jason Charles has covered everything, but to clarify: Normal.dot is a hidden system file in the folder configures at tools > options > file locations > user templates. You will need to set Windows Explorer to display hidden files in order to see it. Acrobat 6 should not affect normal.dot, though it can displace toolbars from add-ins with its own. Methods of controlling the Acrobat toolbar can be found at http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adobe_acrobat_toolbar.htm The Outlining toolbar will normally only be displayed when the Outline view is selected. You can force the Outlining toolbar on with an autonew macro containing the following line: CommandBars("Outlining").Visible = True See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm Signature<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> > Hi there, > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > ....Jason Great summary. I got it. I've actually now created a macro, which includes a button bar and a keyboard command, that will bring up the Outlining toolbar in any document. I preferred that to an AutoExec macro. I thought my normal.dot wasn't working correctly since I was never able to save the Outlining toolbar each time I would re-run Word. I now realize that the Outlining toolbar can't be saved that way. It seems to be only toolbar that can't be saved from session to session. But creating the macro, putting it on the row of buttons at the top of Word, customizing the image, and also assigning the keyboard command to it -- all this did the trick! > Charles has covered everything, but to clarify: > [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] >> >> ....Jason |
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