I'm sorry. I was referring to the building block templates, one of which is empty, building blocks.dotx. The other, built-in building blocks.dotx, is non-empty and this is the one that contains the gallery content, all the headers, footers, and page number formats.



However, after closing Word and then opening a new blank document, what was displayed in Word after opening built-in bb.dotx is no longer available.

I have also deleted the normal.dotm template with no results other than its regeneration upon opening Word again. And I have opened normal.dotm as you suggest but didn't find anything.

When you opened normal.dotx using the vba editor and didn't find anything, that tells me that the other file you looked at is not the normal.dotm file being used by Word as its base template.

In Word 2010 the file that holds these items is Built-In Building Blocks.dotx. You need to rename the one in your roaming profile, not the one in the Programs folder. This has to be done when Word is closed.

I have renamed built-in building blocks in my roaming profile and it had no effect. It was of course recreated when Word opened.

I did the same with the normal.dotm template in the roaming profile and this had no effect. Page numbers still unavailable.