Auto File Naming Weirdness

[MC]

When you create a new document and type a few words and then Save, does
the file name automatically default to the first word you type?

I believe this is what is supposed to happen, but it never happens with
me. Every document I create defaults to the file name "échange"

It's done this ever since I imported a Word Windows document a number
of years ago. It was written in French and had that as its file name.

The weirdness has survived Word upgrades, hardware upgrades, OSX
upgrades and recreating Normal from scratch more than once.

OS: 10.6.2
Word: 12.2.3

Any thoughts?

 

[CyberTaz]

I won't speculate as to how it came about because I don't want to alarm you
unnecessarily but it appears that the file you're referring to modified
the Title property of your Normal.dotm template. If you go to File>
Properties in one of those files you'll see where it's coming from. You can
delete/revise it there on a file-by-file basis, but for a permanent fix:

Open Normal.dotm, go to File> Properties to delete the Title content, then
Save & close the template. Alternatively, trash your Normal.dotm while Word
isn't running so it will generate a new one on next launch -- but that may
cause you to lose customizations you'd prefer to retain.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[MC]

I won't speculate as to how it came about because I don't want to alarm you
unnecessarily but it appears that the file you're referring to modified
the Title property of your Normal.dotm template. If you go to File>
Properties in one of those files you'll see where it's coming from.

Thanks. That did the trick. I would never have known without your help.