My question now is: Do you have any idea why winword8.doc does not keep up
with
(or at least in this case, did not keep up with) changes to my Normal.dot?

Because that is the nature of the relationship for styles between documents
and templates.

You should save your windword8.doc as a template (using SaveAs from within
Word) and put a link to that template on your desktop. You can then
double-click on in (or right-click-New) for a new document. If you make
changes in the styles of such a document and instruct it to save the changes
to the template it will (to the winword.dot template, not normal.dot).

For more on the different kinds of templates and locations of templates
folders see http://addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm.

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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"HONYAKUKA" wrote in message
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Steve:

Thanks.

I verified the registry entry (it's as you stated) and located my
winword8.doc.

When I opened winword8.doc directly from the desktop, it generated a .doc
file
in the "old" Normal style. I therefore went into Organizer and overwrote
all
the styles from Normal.dot into winword8.doc and saved it. Now
right-click-generated .doc files are created with the proper Normal style.

My question now is: Do you have any idea why winword8.doc does not keep up
with
(or at least in this case, did not keep up with) changes to my Normal.dot?

Thanks again.

Jay


Subject: Right-click-created .doc file has wrong Normal template
From: "Steve Yandl"
Date: 5/22/2004 5:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id:

At the Start | Run line, type "regedit" without the quotes and press
Enter.
Navigate to the registry key
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.doc\Word.Document.8\ShellNew
(note, I' running Word 2003 so "Word.Document.8" might be a different
number
value on your system). See what the data for the value "FileName" is
given
as. On my system, I find "winword8.doc which is located in C:\Documents
and
Settings\{your ID}\Templates where I believe it acts as the template when
I
opt to create a new document in the manner you describe. Either you have
a
pointer to the wrong template or the template in your templates folder
has a
problem.

Steve


"HONYAKUKA" wrote in message
...
WinXP
Word 2000

When I create a .doc file using Right Click New New Microsoft Word
document
from a folder on the desktop, the newly created file opens with the
wrong
Normal style formatting. Many of the formats (default typesize and
some
paragraph formatting) appear to be from an earlier version of my Normal
style.

Using debug.print in VBA, I verified that the attached template was
Normal.dot
and that its path was that of the correct folder. The attached
template
and
path of a new document created within Word itself (with my current
Normal
style
formatting) were exactly the same.

Can the Right Click feature be updated to create a document that
contains
my
Normal style current formatting? (And where is this feature getting my
old
Normal style information from?)

Thanks.

Jay