Hi Jerry,

Simply renaiming 'Normal.dot' to 'Normal.dotm' is not a good idea. Files with .dot and .dotx/.dotm have a completely different structure.

What you could safely do is rename the 'Normal.dot' file to 'Normal.doc' and then open it as an ordinary document. Once you've done that, you should be able to go into the visual basic editor and export all its modules & forms, except for the 'This Document' module, whose contents you should copy directly from 'Normal.doc' into the 'This Document' module for Normal.dotm. You can then close the 'Normal.doc' file and, using the visual basic environment import the code modules & forms into Normal.dotm. Note: if you've been creating code modules in the Normal.dotm file already, they should probably be deleted so that you don't get conflicts when the import is done.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]