Make Document Map go away!

[Mike Goldman]

Suddenly, the document map has become a default part of my Normal views in
Word X. I know I'm missing something simple, but how can I get it to go off
..... and stay off (that's the key) for new documents? Thanks.

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Hi Mike,

You need to turn off the Document Map and then save that setting in your
Normal template. One way to do that is by opening the Normal template
itself, making the change, doing a Save and then closing it.

--
Beth Rosengard
Mac MVP

Mac Word FAQ: <http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/WordMac/index.htm>
Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>

 

[Mike Goldman]

That seems as though it should work ... but it doesn't. Something's gone
wacky and I can't figure it out. (Note: as a test, I changed other settings
in Normal, such as font. Those changes stuck.)

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Hi Mike,

It's possible that your Normal template is corrupt. You can test that as
follows:

Quit Word and navigate to your Normal template which should be in
/Applications/Microsoft Office X/Templates/. Rename Normal to something else
(like OldNormal), then relaunch Word. If this fixes the problem but you
have customizations, etc, in OldNormal that you want to maintain, you can
use Organizer to transfer those from OldNormal to the newly-created Normal
template. Then you can trash the old renamed file. To learn how to use
Organizer, see here (use IE not Safari to view this site):
<http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/WordMac/MacWordNormalTemplate.htm>

If this doesn't fix the problem, quit Word again, trash the new Normal and
rename OldNormal back to Normal.

Hope this helps.

--
Beth Rosengard
Mac MVP

Mac Word FAQ: <http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/WordMac/index.htm>
Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>