Re: Customized Normal.dotm

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I don't know the answer but this may help your investigation.

When you change the interface language in Office 2007 and then start Word, it renames your Normal.dotm as Normal.dotm.old and then creates a new Normal.dotm. It also, I believe, refreshes the Data key in the registry (or maybe just the Settings Value, I'm not sure) - and I don't think it backs up the old one.

As a side note, do it twice and Normal.dotm.old gets overwritten without warning. I found this to my cost the first time I changed the language to check something out and then changed it back.

It very much sounds like the second time you start up Word it's recognising a language change - why, I have no idea - and starting afresh.

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Enjoy,
Tony

"Claude" <Claude@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:985E49CD-AE53-417D-9D1A-C012C80840A3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
MS Office Enterprise 2007 (French) on Windows XP (French) - Since I have to
install Office 2007 on many PCs, I used the OCT to create a customized
installation DVD. The installation includes copying a customized Normal.dotm
template that gives me the default font that I want, macros, etc. When I open
Word 2007 for the very first time, everything is fine, then I close it. When
I open Word the second time, my customized Normal.dotm is renamed
Normal.dotm.old and Word creates a new one without my macros, etc. On top of
that, the creation of this new Normal.dotm changes some of the Word options I
had set with the OCT (such as displaying in inches instead of centimeters,
and others). Replacing the new Normal.dotm with my customized one does not
bring back the options that I wanted (display in inches, etc.). Does anyone
have any ideas on how to make Word keep the settings I chose in the OCT
and/or not replace my customized Normal.dotm?

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