Microsoft Office Forums - View Single Post - [Solved] MSWord false pattern or background?????

macropod · 03-31-2011, 08:48 PM

Hi controlengineer,

What you've managed to do is to add the picture to Word's 'Normal' template (which doesn't get deleted when you uninstall Word). You can delete it by editing or deleting the template.

To edit the template:
1. Go to Word Options|Advanced > File Locations and note where the 'User templates' are kept.
2. Go to File|Open and navigate to the 'User templates' folder.
3. Change the file type option to 'All Word templates'.
4. Select 'Normal.dot' or 'Normal.dotx' and open it.
5. Delete the image, then save the template.

To delete the template:
1. Go to Word Options|Advanced > File Locations and note where the 'User templates' are kept.
2. Close Word.
3. Use Windows Explorer to navigate to the 'User templates' folder.
4. Select 'Normal.dot' or 'Normal.dotx' and delete it.
5. Restart Word.
Note: deleting the Normal template also deletes any other customisations you've made for default fonts, paragraph spacing, etc, plus any macro's you've created.