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Windows XP SP2 - Office 2000 SP3
This morning I needed to rename normal.dot to force Office to create a new,
clean normal.dot, but I couldn't find it.
So I went looking around and found this:
In the Tools > Folder Options\File Types dialog, it is listed correctly as
Microsoft Word Template, to be opened by Microsoft Word. Under the Advance
'open' 'print' etc.
(I got the same thing for DOC (Winword the word processor).
Late this afternoon I finally found normal.dot, renamed it and restarted
machine. This time I got a nice clean style sheet for Word.
I went back to Tools > Folder Options\File Types (for both dot and doc) and
the DDE stuff is still there.
What is the DDE info mean? Do I need to turn something on? or off? Will I be
having trouble once I start using the clean template? I'm an old time user
and have never seen this before.
This morning I needed to rename normal.dot to force Office to create a new,
clean normal.dot, but I couldn't find it.
So I went looking around and found this:
In the Tools > Folder Options\File Types dialog, it is listed correctly as
Microsoft Word Template, to be opened by Microsoft Word. Under the Advance
DDE Message: [REM _DDE_Direct][FileNew("%1")] (for example) for 'new'
'open' 'print' etc.
(I got the same thing for DOC (Winword the word processor).
Late this afternoon I finally found normal.dot, renamed it and restarted
machine. This time I got a nice clean style sheet for Word.
I went back to Tools > Folder Options\File Types (for both dot and doc) and
the DDE stuff is still there.
What is the DDE info mean? Do I need to turn something on? or off? Will I be
having trouble once I start using the clean template? I'm an old time user
and have never seen this before.