microsoft.public.word.vba.general

Elliot, I would strongly encourage you to heed Graham's advice. Unless there
is a serious requirement to do so, messing with normal.dot is not a good idea.


Graham Mayor wrote:
>The default document template is normal.dot. You can make modest changes to
>this document, but I would urge you not to do any more than that as it can
>have knock-on effects to other documents.
>
>If you want to make radical changes to the default template then instead
>create your own template and drop a link to it on the desktop. As the
>default action for templates is New, clicking the link will open Word with a
>new document based on your template.
>
>For new documents while Word is open, add a button to the toolbar to run a
>macro containing the line
>Documents.Add Template:="C:\template path\Template name.dot"
>
>> Hi
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>> Elliot

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