Re: Download Templates
- From: John McGhie <john@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:55:40 -0700
OK, you have the "View Settings don't persist" but, and Microsoft is working
on that one. You do not have the other one, which is to do with Spaces.
Yes, Normal.dotm must be in XML, and it must be a .dotm. A .dotm is an XML
template in which customisations are permitted. .dotx is the same thing
with customisations disabled (intended, on the Windows side, to prevent a
file getting any macros in it.)
You can't change the file type of Normal: if you do, Word can't use it. You
can have as many other templates as you like, but Normal.dotm sets many of
the start-up settings for Word.
I am wondering if any bad vibes have been inherited from an earlier version.
Have you ever had an earlier version on that machine?
Do a search for any other instances of Normal an drag them to the desktop.
Then quit Word, find Normal.dotm, and drag it up there too. Re-start Word
and allow it to create a new Normal, and let's see what happens. It is
possible for Normal to corrupt, a nd when it does, some settings can turn
themselves read-only.
I have no idea what the cursor problem is: that's not being done by Word,
which has no choice in cursor colours. What haxies are you running?
Cheers
On 15/04/08 3:02 AM, in article ee88e7a.43@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"DeltaNick" <deltanick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It's hard to learn because the Word Help is not finished yet. We are
'encouraging' them to improve it ... Generically, the process is exactly the
same as on Windows: set your Normal.dotm the way you want to see new
documents, and that's what you will get, each time ... Microsoft actually
intends it to work just this way. There is a bug in the mechanism currently
that fails to save the view positions correctly, and another in the
operating system affecting some users ... Since you didn't specify your
version information, I can't tell whether yours is one of the systems
affected ... We're waiting on fixes to both bugs. <<
John,
Thank you. I am using Tiger version 10.4.11, I have Leopard, but have not yet
installed it, hoping for OS "fluctuation" to settle first. When I loaded
Office, I updated it, so I'm at version 12.0.1.
Can I set another format as the Global "Normal"? Does it have to be
"Normal.dotm"? What if I want to use another of the available formats (.dot,
.xml, etc.) as the Global Normal file?
Is there a way to set the blinking, on-screen cursor back to black (mine is
blue)?
DeltaNick
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