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April 20th, 2011 - 09:56 am ET by Larry B | Report spam
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Maybe I am not using the template concept correctly but...

I would like to alter some of the opening blank document parameters.
Specifically, font, font size, line spacing and margins. I have tried to
modify the font related attributes for the Normal template via the button on
the Ribbon/Styles toolbar. Right-click/Modify. When I close Word and open it
up again, it is back to Calibri 11 again. I also saved the blank document
just to be sure that the changes are saved (I recall the old normal.dot
working that way).

I saw one idea on a website that suggested that I search for normal.dot and
open that file but Search does not find normal.dotx or .dotm. What am I
missing? Thanks
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#1 Larry B
April 20th, 2011 - 10:35 pm ET | Report spam
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Maybe I am not using the template concept correctly but...

I would like to alter some of the opening blank document parameters.
Specifically, font, font size, line spacing and margins. I have tried to
modify the font related attributes for the Normal template via the button
on the Ribbon/Styles toolbar. Right-click/Modify. When I close Word and
open it up again, it is back to Calibri 11 again. I also saved the blank
document just to be sure that the changes are saved (I recall the old
normal.dot working that way).

I saw one idea on a website that suggested that I search for normal.dot
and open that file but Search does not find normal.dotx or .dotm. What am
I missing? Thanks



Could not get anything to happen properly so I created a new template with
my chosen attributes. Then went to the folder containing the Templates
(which is
"C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates\Normal.dotm") , I
renamed the existing Normal template (NormalOLD) and then renamed my new
template Normal. It worked like a charm, for a total workaround, that is.

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