In the past, changing the fonts, etc. in normal.dot would determine the
settings for a new doc when Word first opened. I have created a normal.dotx,
placed it in a subdir with my other templates, and changed the template path
(Word options -> Advanced -> File locations -> User templates).

While I am able to select normal.dotx, along with my other templates, when I
first start Word, it is not using normal.dotx. Please advise.

Only Word can create a normal template, which it will whenever the template
is not present in the user templates folder. You can edit that template in
Word just as in earlier versions.

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cte67 wrote:
> In the past, changing the fonts, etc. in normal.dot would determine
> the settings for a new doc when Word first opened. I have created a
> normal.dotx, placed it in a subdir with my other templates, and
> changed the template path (Word options -> Advanced -> File locations
> -> User templates).
>
> While I am able to select normal.dotx, along with my other templates,
> when I first start Word, it is not using normal.dotx. Please advise.

Further, although Word can base documents on normal.dotx like any other
template, the template that Word creates for itself is normal.dotm -- the "m"
denoting a macro-enabled template.

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On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 17:15:08 +0300, "Graham Mayor" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Only Word can create a normal template, which it will whenever the template
>is not present in the user templates folder. You can edit that template in
>Word just as in earlier versions.
>
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>Graham Mayor - Word MVP
>
>My web site www.gmayor.com
>Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
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>
>
>cte67 wrote:
>> In the past, changing the fonts, etc. in normal.dot would determine
>> the settings for a new doc when Word first opened. I have created a
>> normal.dotx, placed it in a subdir with my other templates, and
>> changed the template path (Word options -> Advanced -> File locations
>> -> User templates).
>>
>> While I am able to select normal.dotx, along with my other templates,
>> when I first start Word, it is not using normal.dotx. Please advise.
>