Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT - Menu bar missing in MS Word

Bryan Carbonnell Bryan_Carbonnell at cbc.ca
Tue Mar 4 09:41:00 CST 2003


I have to add my $0.02 here.

You should never store macros or custom toolbars in Normal.dot, BECAUSE it corrupts quite easily.

Move all that stuff over to a template in the startup directory and then there will be no worries of deleting the Normal.dor.

Bryan Carbonnell
bryan_carbonnell at cbc.ca

>>> ralphb at cwgsy.net 03-Mar-03 5:23:31 PM >>>

>Word will recreate Normal.dot if it is missing.

That's true, but it's a brand new "blank" template created from Word 
default settings.

>There is never any need to copy it from another machine.  Ordinarily, you 
>may safely delete all copies of Normal.dot at any time.

Bear in mind, though, that Normal.dot may (and probably will) contain 
user-defined Autotext entries, styles, macros and toolbars (i.e. much of 
the user's environment) which all disappear if normal.dot is deleted.

So save a copy before deleting, then if you do have a corrupt normal 
template (a not uncommon occurrence) you can use Word's Organiser to copy 
stuff back selectively to the new normal.dot and reconstruct the environment.




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