This from Charles Kenyon;
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The message "Changes have been made that affect the global template -
normal. Do you wish to save those changes?" is an important warning. It
suppplements your virus detector and handles other potential problems.
Its
display means that changes have been made, whether you intended to make
changes or not. You can also get it when your template has been altered
by a
poorly written Add-In program or by a virus.
The reason for the message being shown repeatedly is almost always a
poorly
written Add-In. The Norton AV Office Plug-In seems to be the most
frequent
offender recently, but that can change as some other poorly written
program
comes on the market.
Other offenders include the MS Works Suite Add-In, EZ-Photo, Scansoft,
and
Adobe Acrobat. These all install Add-Ins that mess with your normal.dot
when
they shouldn't do so and don't need to do so. Some of these are .dot
files,
others are installed. See <URL:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/CheckIfAddinsInstalled.htm> for
instructions on seeing what Add-Ins you have. (Having Add-Ins is not a
bad
thing. I run Word with 15 Add-Ins, most of which I wrote myself.)
Start with the Add-Ins I've noted. If you have any of them, decide
whether
they are worth the annoyance they are causing you. Probably they are
not.
Disable any that are not worth the candle. Restart Word and see if your
problem is gone.
If not...
If you start Word using
Start => Run: Winword.exe /a
you'll end up with Word out of the box loading without your saved
normal.dot
file, with no macros and no Add-Ins. You may notice that it loads much
more
quickly than you are used to seing. When you close it, you won't get the
"normal.dot" prompt. Doing this may fix the problem, by itself, but
probably
will not. Generally, it is a diagnostic, not a fix.
So, what you need to do is disable all of your Add-Ins (don't delete
them).
Start by moving .dot files out of your Word Startup folder, one-by-one,
with
Word closed. Restart Word and see if that Add-In caused the problem. If
not,
put it back in and take the next one out. (You can put them in a
sub-folder
of your Startup folder.) If none of them are the problem, move to the
..com
Add-Ins that have to be uninstalled.
Charles Kenyon
Word New User FAQ & Web Directory:
http://addbalance.com/word
Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide)
http://addbalance.com/usersguide
See also the MVP FAQ:
http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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