Normal Template in Word 2007

[ramesh]

Is there a comprehensive description of the features controlled by Normal
template in word 2007?

I had a set of custom styles, toolbars, etc stored in my Normal.dot 2003
template and I want to keep using them. Word 2007 converted most of the
features fine, but they got corrupted somehow and I can't get them back. I
want to know more about the .dotx before I reconstruct them.

 

[Cindy M.]

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Is there a comprehensive description of the features controlled by Normal
template in word 2007?

I had a set of custom styles, toolbars, etc stored in my Normal.dot 2003
template and I want to keep using them. Word 2007 converted most of the
features fine, but they got corrupted somehow and I can't get them back. I
want to know more about the .dotx before I reconstruct them.

In what way did they get "corrupted" and what, more specifically, doesn't
work? The two things you mention explicitly are still stored in Normal, but
you can manage the toolbars only through VBA. You may want to consider moving
some commands to the QAT - which is NOT part of Normal.dot, but a separate
file.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[ramesh]

Thanks Cindy. I should have been clearer that I rather than the software was
the source of the "corruption".

The persistence of the problem lay in the fact that I was saving the
template as normal.dotx rather than .dotM. Please confirm that when I create
a new document, word uses .dotm template.

Sorry I am not familiar with .QAT files. Please refer me to some info on it.
thanks

ramesh

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Ramesh,

For Office 2007 .---X files cannot contain active content that the apps will work on, such as macros, where .---M files can. For
Word that would be .docX and .dotX and .docM and .dotM

Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) files are plain text .XML files (.RibbonX file type in Office 2007 Beta 2, .QAT in Office 2007 Beta 2
with the Technical Refresh update applied. For Word the QAT file loaded by default at startup is Word.QAT

When you start Word 2007 the QAT is the 'small' island at the top of the screen with the undo/redo arrows on it. You can right
click the toolbar or an icon on the ribbon to add it to the QAT. You can also manually edit the QAT files.

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Thanks Cindy. I should have been clearer that I rather than the software was
the source of the "corruption".

The persistence of the problem lay in the fact that I was saving the
template as normal.dotx rather than .dotM. Please confirm that when I create
a new document, word uses .dotm template.

Sorry I am not familiar with .QAT files. Please refer me to some info on it.
thanks

ramesh >>
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I hope this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office system products MVP

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