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You rename the normal.dot to avoid confusion. A good name would be normal2003.dot. If it is placed in the Word Startup Folder all AutoText and macros in it will be available to every document. To original poster: You may want to use Greg Maxey's building blocks utility to move the AutoText from your old normal.dot to your new normal.dotm. That way you will be able to use the pop-up tool-tips for the AutoText. Building Blocks & AutoText I know that this isn't the simplicity you asked for. The first instructions you got from Stefan are the best simple instructions you are likely to find. |
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I think it's a good idea to make a copy of the normal.dot file or whatever its equivalent is in word 2010. Mine got corrupted somehow, and I had to redo the macros. If it ever goes bad, just delete it out of there and pop in the copied file in its place. Would that work?
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Making a backup of Normal is always a good idea. But you can't replace Normal.dotm in Word 2007/2010 with Normal.dot of older versions.
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Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP Microsoft 365 apps for business Windows 11 Professional |
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For Word 2003 see What Files Do I Need to Backup? (or where does Word store all my customizations?) by Dave Rado, MVP and Brenda Hutton You can also store your macros and many customizations in a different global template so you don't have to worry about normal.dot having to be reset. This is also a better way to share customizations with others. You would want a backup of that file. Again, you can't transfer the normal.dot file directly from Word 2003 to a later version. You can use it, you just can't use it to replace normal.dotm. |
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