hi,

all of a sudden i cannot see any macros in my normal.dotx template or any other word doucment. any idea how to recover them.

I hope it's not really Normal.dotx. A dotx file cannot have macros in it - a dotm file can, though.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Press Alt-F11 from within Word. This should bring up the vba editor. In Normal's modules do you see a "New Macros" module? This is where recorded macros are stored by default.

As Paul said, you can't have macros in a Normal.dotx file. I don't know how you would even have such a file. Macros need dotm or docm files for storage.