Problem under File heading

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Under the File heading, I have New Works Template listed about 20 times. What did I do to cause this? And how do I delete all but one? I have to scroll down beyond the repetitious list to save or print or do just about anything else. I'm afraid I'm going to keep unintentionally adding "New Works Template ad infinitum if I don't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I have a hunch that it may have something to do with a dialogue box that I've seen occasionally, asking if I wanted to save something that had to do with normal.com but I'm not at all certain. I just want to eliminate the plethora of unnecessary New Works Template options and keep from adding new ones.

Thanks,
Miranda F.
 
Mirf,

Probably the result of the Works Add-In. Remove it.

Right click and unused menu area and select customize. Open the file menu
and drag off the excess commands.
 
I also have the same problem. After I remove the additional "works template" options from the file menu using your instructions, the problem starts all over again every time I "open" a file and close it. For every file I "open and close", it adds another "new works template" to the "file menu".

Do you have any other suggestions

Thanks, in advance

Michae

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Mirf

Probably the result of the Works Add-In. Remove it

Right click and unused menu area and select customize. Open the file men
and drag off the excess commands

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Mirf wrote
 
This is nothing to do with the Works template, but the Word add-in for
Works, which must be uninstalled via Windows > control panel > add & remove
programs.

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As Greg and Graham have suggested, the problem is caused by the Microsoft
Works Suite Add-in for Word. If you are using Word freestanding (not
starting it from the Works Task Launcher [which one would hope would cause
Word to be better behaved]), then you can safely uninstall this add-in. Go
to Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs, find the add-in, and click on
Remove. This will *not* uninstall Works or Word, just the add-in that
connects them. You will not lose any functionality in Word except the
ability to use a Works address book or database as a mail merge data source,
plus access to the special Works templates for Word documents. What you will
lose is the add-in's nasty habits, which include:

* Overpopulating menus (in addition to the problem you're seeing, users
report a proliferation of Clip Collection and Mail Merge entries)

* Clearing the Clipboard when you start Word

* Prompting you to save Normal.dot every time you close Word (and, we
suspect, sometimes saving a document in or as Normal.dot)

After you've uninstalled the add-in, open Tools | Customize and drag all the
excess items off the menu(s).

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Mirf said:
Under the File heading, I have New Works Template listed about 20 times.
Click to expand...
What did I do to cause this? And how do I delete all but one? I have to
scroll down beyond the repetitious list to save or print or do just about
anything else. I'm afraid I'm going to keep unintentionally adding "New
Works Template ad infinitum if I don't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I
have a hunch that it may have something to do with a dialogue box that I've
seen occasionally, asking if I wanted to save something that had to do with
normal.com but I'm not at all certain. I just want to eliminate the
plethora of unnecessary New Works Template options and keep from adding new
ones.
 
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