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Subject:RE: Changing Normal.dot in Word From:"Technical Writing Plus" <doc-x -at- earthlink -dot- net> To:"'TECHWR-L Writing'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 9 Feb 2010 11:34:42 -0600
Right. What I always thought was that you are supposed to leave normal
alone, always and forever, because it is very important to the functioning
of Word. In fact, that is the approach that I espouse in my (coming out
when? I do not know) Word tutorial.
The templates and styles are what they were thinking of, I suppose. As Tony
says, it is the templates that they should be customizing for the company.
The company's technical writing team should be able to devise a good working
system for this.
It's going to look and operate real cool if they assemble the system
properly in that way.
On the other hand, if they insist on fiddling with and messing with the
functionality of normal, then (1) it may well be disastrous, and (2) even if
they manage to get something to kind of work and do what they want in the
short run, it is going to seem really funky in a bad way and people will not
like it. Do not court disaster.
Jim Jones stc-chicago-jim.blogspot.com
chineseadjuster.webs.com
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Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 11:12 AM
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Subject: Re: Changing Normal.dot in Word
Yes. You can always add additional startup templates (with corporate macros,
boilerplate text, and the like, by adding the template to
*%USERPROFILE%**\Application
Data\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP* and leave *Normal.dot* alone.*
*
-Tony*
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On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Pinkham, Jim <Jim -dot- Pinkham -at- voith -dot- com> wrote:
> That is an excellent point, Paul. While the rigorous control over
> normal.dot has all the advantages previously discussed, it will
> certainly annoy the users you describe...
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