Re: "Do you want to replace the existing Normal?"

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From: Word Heretic (myfullname_at_tpg.com.au)
Date: 04/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 10:55:30 +1000

G'day "Larry" <larry328@att.net>,

It can be caused by a few things, the best bet is to set your options
to Not prompting for saving normal.dot. Then it just quietly does it
in the background.

Steve Hudson - Word Heretic
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Larry reckoned:

>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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