Hi John, Tony

I've seen at least one live case where no normal.dot existed, and I learned
about it the hard way: my VBA code went looking for Normal.dot, failed to
find it and crashed. So I don't just assume that it exists any more.

FWIW, when Normal.dot does not exist, Application.NormalTemplate.FullName
will still produce a very convincing string that consists of the
UserTemplates folder & "\Normal.dot". But there may be no such file.

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word


"John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]" wrote in
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Hi Tony:

It's on the Standard toolbar, I think. It's labelled "Blank Document"
instead of "New Document", from memory.

Yes, the Normal Template data structure always exists in memory. What I
meant was that the "file" Normal.dot does not always exist. I must admit
that I have never seen a case where it actually didn't. But that's
because
in Australia, chances are the first thing we do is change the default
spelling languages from English US, and that would automatically populate
the Normal Template structure with a user specification, which will force
creation of a file.

Cheers


On 16/3/06 12:35 AM, in article ,
"Tony
Jollans" My Forename at My Surname dot com wrote:

A well written summary.

In Word 2002 and later, a "Blank Document" icon appeared on the toolbar.
This button does NOT necessarily create documents from Normal.dot.
There
are specific circumstances under which Normal.dot may not exist in these
applications. If it doesn't, the blank document is produced directly
from
Word's hard-coded defaults. That may be what they were referring to.

New icon in 2002? Which toolbar?

I was under the impression that, no matter what, a Normal.dot always
existed - at least in memory. Under what circumstances is this not the
case?

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Enjoy,
Tony



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