Re: Templates - Make Change to Normal.dotm

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Thank you for your compleet explanation it make things clear. And i supose we
have to live with it.

In my situation we work terminal server with 10 users who all do the same
work en we want to all use the same (optimized) standard procedures. The
problem is that when we dissided it's better to use a new style, or something
like that i have open i session for every user to change the settings. i can
give everyone a new copy of normal.dotm (thats no problem in our situation),
but when you let people also make there own changes in Normal.dotm, then they
wil not like the last option verry much.

My experience is that different normal.dotm files gives manny questions why
computers don't behave the same.

I also thouht of using global add-ins for macro's but is this also posible
for styles etc. It makes the whole situation more complex (more files and
different settings for users) wich makes my work "more interesting".

I just discused it here and we think we will work with global templates, but
also change the loginscript, so everyone gets the standard normal.dotm when
he logs in.

I also take this change to ask you for some more information. Is there a
list of things that are set in normal.dotm (and also in normalemail.dotm) and
wich are set in the registry. In the years some are clear for me, but lot off
them aren't (by example themes in word and outlook2007). I found where they
are stored, but where is stored wich is standard (registry or
normal(email).dotm).

And to make it more complex whats in normalemail.dotm and what is in
mail.oft.

I know that this is not realy the right topic, but i hope you know the
answer's. (one fool can ask more then 10 wise people).

Peter




"Beth Melton" wrote:

Word was not designed to share the Normal template. Each user should have a
copy of the Normal template on their own workstation. The User Templates
should point to a folder on the local drive.



The main reasons for this are:



1) It decreases your chances of spreading viruses (Not everyone should share
the same Kleenex!)



2) If Word can't find the network for any number of reasons, then it will
create a new Normal templateo n the local drive. When there is more than one
Normal templatethen this begins to cause additional problems,errors, etc.



3) Any changes one user makes affects all users. This type of situation can
lead to various error messages and can lead to the corruption of the Normal
template.



4) Microsoft does not recommend you do this either. Additional information
can be found in this article from the MS KB
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q167284/ Even though it was written for Word
97 the content is still applicable.



If the reason the Normal template is shared is because of global
AutoText/Building Block entries, macros, etc then these should be placed in
a separate template and folder on the server and point each users Startup
location to that folder. Upon starting the template will be loaded as a
global add-in and all items will be available to the user and a little more
protected than they would be if stored on a shared Normal template.


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton
What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs

Guides for the Office 2007 Interface:
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"PeterHS" <PeterHS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Sorry i think i didn't make totaly clear where i'm looking for.

When i double click a file (word document) word will open and the document
is on my screen. ad the same time normal.dotm is opend and styles settings
and so on are applied. Is it possible to start a file by double clicking
and
get te settings not from normal.dotm, but by example from qqq.dotm. I want
to
try if its possible te let this work with the file qqq.dotm as read only
(wich is not possible with normal.dotm).

And why do i want to try this?

We are using Word 2007 and we want that all users use the same (standard)
normal.dotm/qqq.dotm (standard looks and easy making changes like new
macro's and so on).

I set the same template folder for all users and they all use the same
Normal.dotm, but when someone accidently make a change (or the dymo
labelwriter makes it every time), when leaving Word he is prompted to save
normal.dotm which I don't want him to do and is also not possible, while
other users are using te same file (this gives many unwanted messages).
Also
when the user is the only user, he changes te standard.

I tried making normal.dotm read only but this doesn't work (error
messages).

I hope you can sort me out

Peter



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