[Dba-office] Normal.dotm issue

Good puzzle.  I'll bet several of us will tackle this one.  I'm off to 
get my tooth repaired - dropped a gold inlay out of my molar and have to 
get it put back in. Eating Skittles, chewing instead of sucking.  Doc 
said that sometimes happens with stale cough drops, too.  He didn't like 
my idea of gluing it back in with my super glue - said I had to come see 
him, instead.
TNF

Tina Norris Fields
tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com
231-322-2787

On 1/6/2015 10:54 AM, Susan Harkins wrote:
> I've had a few readers ask why certain changes to Normal.dotm don't seem to
> stick and I don't have a good answer. To test, I changed the background
> color for Normal.dotm. When I open the file using File Open, the color's
> there. When I click New to open a new document, it isn't.
>
> Although I was using application.NormalTemplate.OpenAsDocument to open the
> file, I made a further test, just to make sure I was actually modifying the
> right file. I added some text.
>
> When opening Normal.dotm via File Open, the new background color and text
> are there. When clicking New to open a new blank document based on
> Normal.dotm, only the text is there.
>
> I know that you can't change everything at the template level, but the
> background color seems like a logical choice for a template. Perhaps the
> explanation is simple -- you just can't change the background color for
> Normal.dotm.
>
> I feel like I should just know the underlying explanation, but I don't and
> if I did, I've forgotten it.
>
> Susan H.
> _______________________________________________
> Dba-office mailing list
> Dba-office at databaseadvisors.com
> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-office
>