Thread: [Solved] How do force Word to use normal.dotx template?
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Old 07-20-2018, 05:46 AM
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Originally Posted by wiganken View Post
Have tried all these things. The problem seems to arise when putting the the words 'normal' and 'dotm' together. Even simply changing the dotx to dotm file extension causes the problem. So even if I have a normal.dotx template (which displays as I want it to) and change it to normal.dotm then the paper colour displays 'wrong' according to the Windows setting. It seems that normal.dotx obeys Windows but normal.dotm does not.

Taking a normal.dotx template and saving it as normal.dotm will not work.


  1. Word will not let you do this from within Word, for good reason.
  2. If you do it from Windows, you will make Word work poorly. Only Word can create a fully-functioning normal.dotm file.
Rename your normal.dotx file to MyTemplate.dotx. Use that as the basis for your new documents that you want to have these characteristics.


If you want it to be the basis for all new documents, save it as MyTemplate.dotm and include code to make this happen. See Letterhead AddIn(s) - Default New Document for an example of how this can be done.
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