Henry Simpson
hsimpson88 at hotmail.com
Tue Mar 4 12:48:00 CST 2003
Agree totally. Word becomes horribly buggy with significant increases in document complexity. The furthest I go with Normal.dot is to change font and margin defaults to match corporate guidelines. Over 95% of staff created documents are based on other purpose specific templates. I would never place any significant investment in Normal.dot but by all means make backups if you do. None, and I mean 0, of the people I work with are even aware of the existence of this file and that serves to keep my job simple. If anyone ever complains about loss of their normal template, we have 2 weeks of server backup from which to restore. No complaints or restores needed... yet. Hen >From: "Bryan Carbonnell" <Bryan_Carbonnell at cbc.ca> >Reply-To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com >To: <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> >Subject: RE: Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT - Menu bar missing in MS Word >Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 10:39:55 -0500 > >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. > >_______________________________________________ >AccessD mailing list >AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail