Re: Transferring Normal.dot

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From: Charles Kenyon (msnewsgroup_at_remove.no.spam.addbalance.com)
Date: 02/21/05


Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 18:42:12 -0600

I would suggest that you copy your old normal.dot to your Word Startup
folder with the name "oldnormal.dot" and see if that does what you want. I
wouldn't recommend simply copying it into your user templates folder because
it could limit your new installation in some unforseen way. 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.

-- 
Charles 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!
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"Judy" <Judy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:6C78799F-E4DB-47B1-9524-2081AFE27C59@microsoft.com...
> Hi, I just got a new computer with Win XP and Microsoft Word 2002 
> preloaded.
> I am trying to transfer my old normal.dot file from Word 97 (which I have
> customized for my needs).  Does anyone know how I can get Word 2002 to use 
> my
> old normal.dot without having to do all the customizing over again??
>  Thanks in advance.
> -- 
> Judy 


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