Open the file normal.dot. Change the style of the first paragraph to normal
then save and close the template.
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/BlankDocNotBlank.htm

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> I've set templates up to work, however if you click on the icon for
> new blank document it opens the template but defaults to a style
> within it rather than the normal style.. any ideas how I can change
> this icon to open the 'normal.dot' template?
Helenh - 18 Jan 2006 13:06 GMT
Thanks for the advice. I tried this but for some reason it wouldn't let me
change the style, so I deleted the hyperlink style it was using, it then
reverted to normal and I recreated the hyperlink style and saved the document
again as the normal.dot... it works fine now.

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Helen
> Open the file normal.dot. Change the style of the first paragraph to normal
> then save and close the template.
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> > within it rather than the normal style.. any ideas how I can change
> > this icon to open the 'normal.dot' template?
Graham Mayor - 18 Jan 2006 14:13 GMT
A blank document saved as normal.dot is not normal.dot. Only Word can create
that. See the link in the original reply.

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> Thanks for the advice. I tried this but for some reason it wouldn't
> let me change the style, so I deleted the hyperlink style it was
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>>> within it rather than the normal style.. any ideas how I can change
>>> this icon to open the 'normal.dot' template?