"Do you want to replace the existing Normal?"

From: Larry (larry328_at_att.net)
Date: 04/19/04 

Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 03:59:41 -0400

One of the strangest messages in Word 97 is a message I've gotten
without warning from time to time, "Do you want to replace the existing
Normal?" That's all the message says. It doesn't say why Normal ought
to be replaced or what it's going to be replaced with, or what will
happen if I don't replace it. I'm simply saving Normal, or closing
Word, and I get this message. And the funny thing is, even though the
message seems to be giving me a choice, it's giving me no choice at all.
If I say no, I'm shown a save as dialog box. If I then save as some
other name, I'm still not able to save the existing Normal, because I
get the same message again. So finally I have no choice but to replace
the existing Normal. Though, once again, what I'm replacing it with,
and how what I'm doing is different from what I do when I simply save
changes in Normal, I haven't the foggiest.

I assume that more recent versions of Word do not have these mysterious
and ominous error messages.

Larry

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