NORMAL DOT Mystery

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Fellow Forum Members,
My manual I'm writing in WORD is linked to it's own NORMAL.DOT template file
I named MyManual.dot. In addition, it's located on a network drive G: in a
directory named "Project". However, and this has me confused, eventhough I
have gone to OPTIONS and have told WORD to link to the Normal.dot file in
Groject named "MyManaul.dot" for some reason Word keeps on autogenerating a
standard Normal.dot file named "Normal.dot". Why does Word do this? I find
it confusing as heck as to why WORD requires a second DOT file in the same
folder my custom DOT file is located in? Any help will be greatly
appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Stefan Blom]

You simply cannot replace the blank document template in Word. If Word
cannot find normal.dot, it will always create a new one, sooner or
later.

What you can do is create a new documents from some other template,
such as your MyManual.dot template.

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[Graham Mayor]

You cannot create normal.dot in this way. Only Word can create Normal.dot
which is a required system file and if not present Word will re-create it.
Use your own template as a document template.

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