Word2000 Normal.dot okay in WordXP?

[Ed]

We're migrating from Windows and Office 2000 to Win / Office XP. Will it
work to just transfer the Normal.dot, with all my macros and toolbars, from
one computer to the other?

Ed

 

[Charles Kenyon]

It would probably work better to rename the file something like normal2000
and put it in the startup folder of your new Word installation. Remove
duplicate AutoText from this file. See
http://addbalance.com/word/movetotemplate.htm for step-by-step instructions
on moving / sharing / copying / backing-up customizations including
AutoText, AutoCorrect, keyboard assignments, toolbars, macros, etc.
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[Charles Kenyon]

It would probably work better to rename the file something like normal2000
and put it in the startup folder of your new Word installation. Remove
duplicate AutoText from this file. See
http://addbalance.com/word/movetotemplate.htm for step-by-step instructions
on moving / sharing / copying / backing-up customizations including
AutoText, AutoCorrect, keyboard assignments, toolbars, macros, etc.
--

Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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[Graham Mayor]

It *should* be OK, as this is essentially what happens during an upgrade,
but it would be better if you used the Organizer to import these items from
old to new.

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[TF]

Ed

Following on from the others' advice (which I agree with): I found it best
to keep normal.dot pretty much as small as possible. Custom toolbars, macros
and autotext I keep in separate templates (I call them macros.dot,
autotext.dot and toolbars.dot for simplicity) and then place the templates
in Word's Startup folder (see Tools, Options, File Locations to see where
your Startup is pointing to). Everything stored in templates in the Startup
folder become available to Word as global add-ins. This keeps normal.dot
barely much bigger than its default size.

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: We're migrating from Windows and Office 2000 to Win / Office XP. Will it
: work to just transfer the Normal.dot, with all my macros and toolbars,
from
: one computer to the other?
:
: Ed
:
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