Normal template - work group templates and user templates

[Tadwick]

Our organization just upgraded to Word 2007 and we appear to have lost our
old default styles. I don't know if this is because the template extension
has changed in Word 2007 or if the old normal.dot files were somehow replaced.

Anyhow, going forward what is the best way to manage the default document
styles and how can we redeploy the old styles?

Also, when we delete our normal.dotm file in the user template location is
the new normal.dotm added from the work group template location?

 

[Stefan Blom]

Our organization just upgraded to Word 2007 and we appear to have lost our
old default styles. I don't know if this is because the template
extension
has changed in Word 2007 or if the old normal.dot files were somehow
replaced.

Anyhow, going forward what is the best way to manage the default document
styles and how can we redeploy the old styles?

Were those styles in the normal.dot file of your previous version? When
upgrading, Word doesn't delete any data files, so you should be able to copy
your styles from normal.dot to normal.dotm or preferably to a custom
template. (Locate and rename normal.dot so that the two files don't have the
same names; that way, it will be less confusing.)

Also, when we delete our normal.dotm file in the user template location is
the new normal.dotm added from the work group template location?

Usually, if you delete normal.dotm, with Word closed, and then start Word,
you should be getting a normal.dotm file with the factory default settings.
However, I don't think this applies if there is an old normal.dot file
available, in which case Word seems to make a duplicate of that file.

 

[Tadwick]

Stefan,

Thanks for responding - is therefore true that when you upgrade from Word
2003 to 2007 the normal.dot properties do not get transferred to the new
normal.dotm and that we have to do this manually?