[dba-Tech] Word Questons

Is the white space gone Arthur?

Arthur, go to the top or bottom margin of any page. Hover over that margin
and watch for the cursor to change to two facing arrows. Look at the tip --
if it says display white space, you've accidentally turned off your white
space margin. Just double-click the margin.

Susan H.

On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 1. How do I see the properties of a Word document? Specifically, how can I
> determine which template was used to create a given document?
> 2. Once a document has been created, is there any way to switch it to use
> another template?
> 3. How and when can I specify which template to use when I create a new
> document?
>
> Background. I have a pair of computers side by side, both running Office
> 2007. Somehow I did something on my new computer that has changed the page
> layout of a normal document. Documents now appear with neither header nor
> footer -- no matter which Page Layout I choose, it has no effect. I even
> completely uninstalled Office and then re-installed it -- to no avail. I
> tried to create a new Word document and got the same result -- no header or
> footer. So then I copied a "bad" document from here to the other computer
> and opened it, and it behaved the same bad way. I created a blank document,
> which opened the "normal" way, then selected all the text from the bad
> document, copied and pasted into the blank document, and lo and behold, it
> behaved "correctly": the normal header and footer were respected. So I
> closed the bad document, and overwrote it with the good version. Then I
> copied it back to the computer where the problem exists, and opened it
> there, and its header and footer were correct.
>
> Next, I copied Normal.dotm from the good computer to the bad computer,
> overwriting the bad computer's version. Then I created a new document and
> Damn! It still didn't work!
>
> The final thing I did is copy the good version of Normal.dotm to the
> templates directory, naming it normal2.dotm. Hence my question about how to
> tell Word to use that version when I create a new Word document.
>
> I'm at my wit's end. Any advice, Word experts?
>
> --
> Arthur
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