I was wrong in my solution. Add-ins had nothing to do with saving a macro in Normal.dotm. Saving the macro didn't work when I tried again.

So, I re-activated the previously deactivated Add-ins.

I didn't realize the effect that occurred, that additionally I had gone into VBA editor and clicked the save to disk icon after I had recorded the macro. This is what really did the savings. This sounds like a bug to me. p.s. the associated key board command short cut was not saved.

Hope someone else can benefit from my trials.