Re: NORMAL DOT Mystery

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You cannot create normal.dot in this way. Only Word can create Normal.dot
which is a required system file and if not present Word will re-create it.
Use your own template as a document template.

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binar wrote:
Fellow Forum Members,
My manual I'm writing in WORD is linked to it's own NORMAL.DOT
template file I named MyManual.dot. In addition, it's located on a
network drive G: in a directory named "Project". However, and this
has me confused, eventhough I have gone to OPTIONS and have told WORD
to link to the Normal.dot file in G:Project named "MyManaul.dot" for
some reason Word keeps on autogenerating a standard Normal.dot file
named "Normal.dot". Why does Word do this? I find it confusing as
heck as to why WORD requires a second DOT file in the same folder my
custom DOT file is located in? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.


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