How to correct a normal.dot problem

[Guest]

I have several macros that I have developed over the past 8 or 10 years. I
can run these macros, but Edit is grayed out when I go to Tools|Macros.

With Word closed, I renamed Normal.dot to Normalx2.dot to get a fresh
Normal.dot

Now when I open just Normal.dot and go to the Visual Basic Editor I find two
items in the Project Explorer list. At the top is an empty (of code) Normal
followed by the renamed normalx2.dot. When I try to open it for editing I get
a message titled “Project Locked†– with the message “Project is unviewable.â€
Clicking on the help button gets a blank screen.

How do I correct this problem? I need to be able to edit my macros.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Use the File > Open dialog to open the Normalx2.dot file as if it was
a document. Then go to the VBA editor, and you should be able to open
the project.

If it's still locked, there's probably some damage to the file that
prevents access to the macro area. I don't think there's much you can
do if that's the case.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your response on this, Jay -- it did help me to begin solving the
problem, although I was NOT able to edit Normalx2.dot. After I deleted it I
was finally able to get a clean copy of Normal.dot and I am now down to one
copy of normal in VBA.

A puzzling thing about this is that normal2x.dot was not in my designated
template folder. Before that I was getting two Normal.dots in VBA. I had
earlier moved normal.dot out of my template folder in an attempt to get a
clean copy. My attempt to copy the macros into the clean normal.dot from an
earlier backup did not work. After editing a macro I was still running the
old version of it.

Now I find I have a copy of a normal.dot (named Oct22.dot) that I made when
I was getting a series of error messages. This happened maybe on two or
three different days when trying to save a document, and a bit later when
closing word telling me it could not save normal.dot. I recall finding some
temporary files named something like ~WRL#####. I think I may have renamed
one of them Oct22.dot but am not sure. I was out straight on an important
project at the time and did not have much time to troubleshoot.

So, what are my chances of encountering similar problems if I were to copy
Oct22.dot and rename it normal.dot. Can you tell me anything about what
causes this type of file corruption? Would I be better off using the
Organizer to copy components from Oct22.dot into a new Normal.dot?
I sure appreciate your help on this.

Jackie

 

[Graham Mayor]

See http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm

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