Hi John:
Yeah, I answered your earlier about AutoCorrect.
I was being pedantic about Normal so you understand what's happening. What
you wrote this time is exactly correct: the old Normal was replaced by a new
Normal and the Autorecover save was deleted when that happened.
There's nothing special you should be doing: just hang in there and keep
reading the help. You're in quite a complex area, and some of the tools are
set to do things automatically that are working against you.
You need to read the help very carefully: Microsoft Help is often a little
cryptic: every single word is important
But just stick around: we're happy to talk you through these things. That's
why we come here...
Cheers
On 11/10/06 7:50 PM, in article
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John
What I observed does appear to have happened.
There was a Normal template as well as the later Autorecover version.
When I quit, the old Normal disappeared, as did the Autorecover
version, to be replaced by a new Normal with the same creation time
and amendments as the Autorecover version. So I didn't lose the
changes.
I don't pretend to understand what happend, just reporting.
And thanks for the tip about backing up the Normal.
Did you follow the messages about Macro for Table Problems?
Everyone suggests AutoText or AutoCorrect. These work fine for me
while the document is open, but after Quit and Open the table then
appears with borders (when No Borders was specified). Some default
seems to be kicking in and overriding the AutoText.
I'd really appreciate knowing what I should be doing. Is there a
sequence I should be following that I'm not?
Many thanks
John
John
John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh] wrote:
Hi John:
Just for the sake of understanding the process, what you observed is NOT
what happened (how unusual -- this is Word, remember...)
What happened is this...
1) You Started Word
2) Word could not find a Normal template
3) Word created a new Normal template
4) You quit Word
5) Word wrote the new Normal template out to disk
6) Word deleted the AutoRecover file for Normal template because it shut
down normally.
So: The existing AutoRecover save did not change into anything: it got
deleted. The Normal template you have now was created fresh (and blank) by
Word.
I labour this point simply so you will understand what happens and won't
get
surprises in future.
If you are going to add customisations to Normal (and many of is do...)
then
over time your Normal template becomes increasingly valuable, because the
effort involved in re-creating it becomes progressively higher.
So keep a backup of Normal if you are customising Word. Each time I make a
formal change (i.e. One I intentionally made...) to Normal, I copy it and
save it with today's date in the file name.
Word will continue to USE the one that's just named "Normal". But I have
versions of Normal going back to year 2000
Cheers
On 9/10/06 4:34 AM, in article
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Hi John and Daiya
Many thanks for your help.
In fact, when I quit Word the AutoRecover Normal template (which I
couldn't open) changed itself into the Normal template, which solved my
problem!
John
John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh] wrote:
Hi Daiya:
It *may* be. The user should re-name the AutoRecover file (so Word can't
find it) then start Word and use File>Open from the Word menu to attempt
to
open the file.
If it is a full AutoRecover, it will open just like a document or
template
would. Usually, however, it's incomplete.
Cheers
On 7/10/06 9:20 AM, in article
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On 10/6/06 3:33 PM, "(e-mail address removed)" wrote:
I've spent much time making changes to the Word 2004 Normal template,
them Word suddenly quit unexpectedly.
I've found the Autorecovery Save of Normal in the Microsoft User Data
folder in Documents. How can I open it and have it replace the Normal
template?
Hi John,
Interesting one. I don't know enough about Word's autorecovery to know
whether that file is really a template. Look at the Kind information in
the
Finder, it should tell you whether it is a Microsoft Word document or
Microsoft Word template.
If it is really a template, there are a couple of potential things you
might
do, though I'm not sure they will work. However, that also depends on
what
type of changes you were making and want to recover. What type of
changes
were you making?
If it is not a template, you might be able to do something, depends on
the
type of changes you were making.
I assume you had Normal open while you were making changes to it. This
is
rarely necessary, and suggests you may have done unwise things, like
say,
adding text to a footer.
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