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Originally Posted by Saumyo
Thanks, Graham
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Anyhow, I went to the last big backup I made, less than a month ago. Plugged in the external drive, went to the Appdata\Roaming... address and found the normal.dotm file I'd saved. Making sure nothing was already open in Word, I clicked on that normal.dotm.
But there are no macros. That seems weird. At the time that backup was made, everything was working fine, so presumably the dotm file must have been saved with all macros present and correct.
It almost seems as if the problem might not be in the dotm file but might instead be in the Word application that is opening it. Would that be possible?
Anyhow, I'm back to wondering. Do I take the normal.dotm from the laptop and replace the existing macro-less normal.dotm with it? Or, do I open the new, macro-less normal.dotm, get into an appropriate VBA window and copy the macro code in from the various text files I've made from the laptop?
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Copying the text files from the laptop to the desktop will work. Even easier is to right click on each module on your laptop and export to .bas files. Then import from those files on your desktop.
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Am inclined to do the second... But don't know enough to judge. Wondering all sorts of things, e.g.
(0) How can all the macros suddenly disappear. Ought I to start keeping regular text-file backups of the macro code...?
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Keeping backups is always a good idea.
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(1) Can I check what may have happened with the Building Blocks?
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You can check but like macros, building blocks are saved in templates.
Where can Building Blocks be stored?
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(2) I was thinking also to look at the custom dictionary file, but can't find it.
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Mastering the Spelling Checker
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(3) Most of the templates seem to be duplicated, being found both in Users\MyName\Documents\Custom Office Templates and in Users\MyName\Appdata\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates -- does the first of those addresses just function as a pointer?
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Okay, most grateful for any advice you may have. Many thanks.
Geoff (is my name)
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These are not duplicates. There should be no normal.dotm (or normal.[anything] in your custom office templates, that is for templates you have created.
See
Word 2007 & Later Key Data File Locations for things you may want to back up.