changes to normal.dot

[Dianah]

Everytime I open word then close it, I'm prompted to save changes made to
normal.dot. What's with that.

I've accepted that if I make changes to normal.dot it will prompt to save.
Now, I don't even have to open a document and I'm being prompted to save
changes. I've answered yes and no. When I later reopen Word and close it
again (with a previous yes or no (to saving changes to normal.dot), I'm
being told that there are again - changes to normal.dot. What is it that's
changing normal.dot everytime I open Word.

 

[Luc]

Dianah,
It has been reported that the NAV Office plug-in sometimes causes this
problem, try disabling it . It is one of the options from within NAV.
It could also be a malfunctioning Add-in. Look in Tools - Templates and
Add-ins. The only way to isolate the malfunctioning add-in is to remove
them all, add them one by one, start up again and see which one is the
offender.
Luc

 

[Dianah]

I'm not using NAV. I use AVG, but I'll try to disable it from scanning
emails and add it back. I also have pdf maker as an add-in for Word, so
I'll do the same with it. Thanks for the tips.

I mention the emails because I'm using Outlook and recently re-enabled using
Word as the word processor for it as I wanted some of Word's features back
.... I use them too frequently. Outlook therefore, also prompts me with
changes being made to normal.dot. I can't seem to escape it.

Here's hoping. Diana

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Using Word as your email editor in Outlook can, I believe, also have this
effect and causes other problems as well.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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all may benefit.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Stanley, I'm sure you were trying to be helpful, but it would have been much
more effective to point Dianah to
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/BlankDocNotBlank.htm instead of quoting
the text of it here (without attribution). Not only is the article easier to
read (and complete with screen shots), but doing this would have (a) allowed
you to post a 1KB message instead of a 38KB one and (b) avoided the
appearance of plagiarism (note that the article you quoted is protected by
copyright).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

 

[sf]

Everytime I open word then close it, I'm prompted to save changes made to
normal.dot. What's with that.

I've accepted that if I make changes to normal.dot it will prompt to save.
Now, I don't even have to open a document and I'm being prompted to save
changes. I've answered yes and no. When I later reopen Word and close it
again (with a previous yes or no (to saving changes to normal.dot), I'm
being told that there are again - changes to normal.dot. What is it that's
changing normal.dot everytime I open Word.

Hey! You jinxed me!

sf
<yeah, what's up with that?>

both index fingers forming a cross (lower case t type),
warding you off...


Practice safe eating - always use condiments

 

[Pop Rivet]

Update upon open or Update upon Save turned on?
If you have automatic update of fields turned on in
Options, and there are any fields in the template, Word
can ask you if you want ot save the changes. Simply
updating fields (or anything else) is a change to Word,
whether you changed anything or not.