Normal.dot

[Guest]

We use a heavily customised Normal.dot. When you open Windows Explorer (using
Windows XP), select a Word document, right-click and choose Print... the
system requests the password for our Normal.dot.

I can speculate as to why this is happening but does anyone know of a
workaround or an article that explains the problem and puts forward some
possible solutions.

 

[Jezebel]

It's poor practice to have normal.dot so heavily customised that you need to
password protect it. Move the stuff you want to protect (macros? autotext
entries?) to an add-in or separate template, and remove the protection from
normal.dot.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

For instructions on moving your customizations out of Normal.dot...
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.

Normal.dot should never be shared and should not be regularly overwritten
from a network (except in library / school environments).
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Charles Kenyon

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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
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[Graham Mayor]

Normal.dot is a personal user scratch pad it should never be shared!

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[Guest]

Thank you very much for all of this, even though I am now 'Johnny Unpopular'
with our programmers.

I now have an additional problem that cannot be solved. We now have an 'out
of the box' Normal.dot and a template in the StartUp folder called ABC.dot.
We have a set of user templates that used to work with the customised
Normal.dot. Now the templates do not work because they call a procedure using
just the procedure name (no path). The called procedure is in ABC.dot.

If the procedure is called disableAuto in a module called module 1 in a
project called ABC.dot, how can I call this procedure from another document
template without getting the 'sub or function not defined' error.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you need further ammunition to bolster your assertion that Normal.dot
should not be shared, show this KB article to your programmers: “You cannot
share the Normal.dot file among multiple users in Word†at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=811468

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

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[Charles Kenyon]

Application.Run MacroName:="disableAuto"

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