What is NORMAL???

[Art Shotwell]

Okay, I'm new to the Mac and new to Office for the Mac. And, fairly new to
Word. What is NORMAL? The NORMAL template (template, right?) Seems to get
saved, or rather re-saved, every time I close Word.

 

[CyberTaz]

Hello & Welcome, Art -

There are 2 reasons why you are getting the prompt:

1) In Word>Preferences - Save there is a check in the box to issue the
prompt if changes are made to affect Normal (which I prefer to keep that
way), and

2) You have made changes that *do* affect Normal.

For more on what they are take a look at:

http://word.mvps.org/Mac/MacWordNormal.html

Depending on how you intend to use the program you may also want to poke
around that web site for additional information, especially the work by
Clive Huggan entitled "Bend Word to Your Will" referred to here:

http://word.mvps.org/mac/UsingWord-macIndex.html#TakeCharge

If you have any specific questions don't hesitate to post them here... There
a number of knowledgeable folks who are more than willing to share their
expertise & experience!

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Hi Art:

Yep. That's "Normal"

The Normal Template is a specially-structured document (a "template") that
acts as a 'scratch-pad' for Word. It's where Word stores a lot of the
settings changes and formatting changes each user makes. Each user has
their own copy of Normal, and it's where Word keeps a lot of the "per user"
settings.

A template has the same content as a document, plus several other containers
that are not present in the document file structure. These store things
such as autotext, autocorrect, macros and toolbars.

People can waste a lot of time trying to ensure that Normal is not changed
and therefore won't be saved when you quit. It is barely possible to
achieve this, but I don't see it as a good use of my time

Normal is a scratch-pad: let it save

Cheers

Okay, I'm new to the Mac and new to Office for the Mac. And, fairly new to
Word. What is NORMAL? The NORMAL template (template, right?) Seems to get
saved, or rather re-saved, every time I close Word.

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