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Ben Wylie - 29 Jan 2005 02:19 GMT

Which Normal.dot file will the system account use?

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Doug Robbins - 29 Jan 2005 11:39 GMT

Not sure what you mean by "system account" but it will be the one in the
user templates location defined under Tools>Options>File Locations. By
default that would be C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application
Data\Microsoft\Templates, but it could have been changed.

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> Which Normal.dot file will the system account use?
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Ben Wylie - 29 Jan 2005 13:17 GMT

Thanks for the reply.
This is the situation:
I run my own internal mail server on our network.
What i am setting up is a system where if you email a particular address,
the mail server recognises it, extracts attachments from the email, opens
any .doc files and converts them to .htm files and sticks them onto my
webpage.
I have set everything up, so i have the extracted .doc file and ready to use
a macro to convert it, but I don't know where to put the Macro.

The user I log on as is Administrator, but my Mailserver is running as
System. So anything it does is as System, and that includes running Word and
converting files. The question is, what Normal.dot file will word use if it
is SYSTEM which is running it? There is no documents and settings folder for
SYSTEM.

Will it just use the same one for Administrator?

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Ben

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Charles Kenyon - 31 Jan 2005 17:54 GMT

First, don't put the macro in normal.dot. Put it in a custom global
template. Put that template in the startup folder for system. To find out or
assign that folder, open Word as SYSTEM and check under Tools > Options >
File Locations for the startup folder. BTW, you can use the same method to
find the user templates folder, which is where normal.dot would be stored.

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