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Opening a Blank Word Document

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by rmattern

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Whenever I go to open word or open a new blank document in word a letter I typed on 5/16 appears I don't know what I did. How do I get the system to open a blank document each time I open word or open a new document in word? I am running Microsoft Office 2000.

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by xpertdragon

It sounds like you have saved the Basic Word "Blank Document" template to be displayed as your document that you typed on 5/16. Have you attempted to Open up the New Document setting by going to both the Icon on the Menu bar, as well as File--->New Document? You may have to re-create that blank document template named "normal.dot". Under File--?New Document, you should see a window that allows you to create either a "Document" or a "Template". You might want to try opening the template manually, Blanking it out, and re-saving into the directory of all the usual Office templates.

Paul M. Chavez

by kees.valkenswaard

So it is finding normal.dot
Give it a different name in order to save it temporarily with a new name. Just in case. If Word can not find a normal.dot it will create a new one with all the default settings. This means that if you were using a different default letter type, pitch, styles, auto text and other options, you would have to reset or add these again.
Good luck

by hjs

It's easier than that. Make sure Word is closed. Find normal.dot and delete it. Launch Work and it wil recreate the normal.dot.

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