Re: MS Word 2003 - Default File Save name?
From: Eric G (eg50(remove)_at_intermarine.se)
Date: 12/22/04
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Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 16:12:16 +0100
Hello Jay,
How right you were - right there in the Normal.dot, Properties, under the
Summary tab, in the Title field sits a lonly "1". As how it got there, I
can't explain either. And I, who thought I kept the normal.dot nice and
tidy, with regular backups and everything, I didn't even notice it.
Well, you solved my problem - thank you very much for your help, it's much
appreciated.
Best regards,
Eric G
Stockholm, Sweden.
"Jay Freedman" <jay.freedman@verizon.net> wrote in message
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| Hi Eric,
|
| The "first few words" suggestion is actually Word's second choice, used
only
| if the Title field of the File > Properties dialog is empty. In your case,
I
| suspect that the Title field of your Normal.dot contains the character
"1",
| this is being propagated into each new document, and it's being used to
| suggest the file name.
|
| To fix this, open Normal.dot itself -- use File > Open, set the file type
| dropdown to "Word Template", navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\<your
| login name>\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates, and select Normal.dot.
Go
| to File > Properties and clear the Title box. Save and close the template.
|
| As for how the "1" got there, this is probably a variation of the problem
| described at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/BlankDocNotBlank.htm --
| although we still don't really know why that happens.
|
| --
| Regards,
| Jay Freedman
| Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
|
| Eric G wrote:
| > MS Word 2003 SP1 & XPP SP2
| >
| >
| >
| > Hello,
| >
| > When saving a new document in Word, Word used to suggest the first
| > couple of words in the document as a file name. Now Word has started
| > to suggest "1.doc" as my new file name, irrespective of what the
| > documents first couple of words are.
| >
| > On removing (actually temporarily renaming) the "normal.dot" and
| > restarting Word, a new "normal.dot" is created and Word once again
| > uses the first couple of words as the name of the new file to be
| > saved.
| >
| > My problem is that I have so many setting, macros and other
| > information stored in my old "normal.dot", that I would like to keep
| > this old version (that was newly created when I started with the 2003
| > version of Word). But this with suggesting "1.dot" for every new file
| > name is rather annoying.
| >
| > My questions:
| >
| > What have I done to Word, that makes it change its behavior?
| >
| > How, and where, can I reset or change this annoying behavior?
| >
| > Grateful for any suggestions.
| >
| > Regards,
| >
| > Eric G
| > Stockholm, Sweden
|
|
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