Hi Bob, the normal template is usually empty (it holds all of your default formatting) - you can make any adjustments with the formatting - change the default fault (I always have liked Ariel), margins (I don't know why they set the default margins to 1.25), and the spacing between paragraphs. Open your normal.dot - make any formatting changes you need, then close it. Exit out of Word and when you come back in any formatting changes you made should hold for any new document you create.



Hope this helps!

Thanks -- I'm making progress - but small steps

I was trying to add the full path of the document. In another post it suggested that I add the following code to the normal template:

Sub AutoOpen()
'Displays the Document Path in the Title Bar
ActiveWindow.Caption = ActiveDocument.FullName
End Sub

I open the normal.dotm (don't know why it is .dotm and not .dot) to a blank document and saved it. - exited word. When I restart word the normal.dotm is presented which has the the added code.

I was assuming that the code is vbscript and I would have to declare something in normal.dotm that it is code.

Am I missing the obvious?

Also where is this file stored?