old 2003 template to new location?

It's been three months, but I FINALLY have an actual new PC, with my
old files copied onto a new (partitioned) drive -- but Vista was not
installed over XP, so that everything simply shows up in the new
system.

I therefore now have Word2003 with a pristine normal.dot. I was able
to find an old normal.dot in my old "Applications & Data" folder that
has a suitable "Last Modified" date, but I can't discover where to put
it within Vista so that Word2003 can find it. (Vista also has
Office2007 on it,) I found a folder called Templates, but that didn't
do it.

I'm not at my Vista machine at the moment, so I'm working from memory
(notoriously dangerous!). In Windows Explorer (a.k.a. "Computer"), enter the
location
%appdata%\Microsoft\Templates
in the box at the top left and press Enter, which should get you to an
otherwise hidden folder at C:\Users\profile
name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates. That's the equivalent of the
Templates folder in XP.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

grammatim wrote:
It's been three months, but I FINALLY have an actual new PC, with my
old files copied onto a new (partitioned) drive -- but Vista was not
installed over XP, so that everything simply shows up in the new
system.

I therefore now have Word2003 with a pristine normal.dot. I was able
to find an old normal.dot in my old "Applications & Data" folder that
has a suitable "Last Modified" date, but I can't discover where to put
it within Vista so that Word2003 can find it. (Vista also has
Office2007 on it,) I found a folder called Templates, but that didn't
do it.

You could open Word 2003, make a small change that would affect Normal.dot,
and then search for the copy of Normal.dot that was just created; copy your
old Normal.dot over that, and Bob's your uncle.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"grammatim" wrote in message
...
It's been three months, but I FINALLY have an actual new PC, with my
old files copied onto a new (partitioned) drive -- but Vista was not
installed over XP, so that everything simply shows up in the new
system.

I therefore now have Word2003 with a pristine normal.dot. I was able
to find an old normal.dot in my old "Applications & Data" folder that
has a suitable "Last Modified" date, but I can't discover where to put
it within Vista so that Word2003 can find it. (Vista also has
Office2007 on it,) I found a folder called Templates, but that didn't
do it.

No -- I no longer have Word2003 on a pre-Vista drive; when 2003
installed, it made its own new normal.dot inside Vista (and didn't
affect the old one). So any New document opens with the new,
characterless template.

On Oct 21, 2:12*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
You could open Word 2003, make a small change that would affect Normal.dot,
and then search for the copy of Normal.dot that was just created; copy your
old Normal.dot over that, and Bob's your uncle.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"grammatim" wrote in message

...



It's been three months, but I FINALLY have an actual new PC, with my
old files copied onto a new (partitioned) drive -- but Vista was not
installed over XP, so that everything simply shows up in the new
system.

I therefore now have Word2003 with a pristine normal.dot. I was able
to find an old normal.dot in my old "Applications & Data" folder that
has a suitable "Last Modified" date, but I can't discover where to put
it within Vista so that Word2003 can find it. (Vista also has
Office2007 on it,) I found a folder called Templates, but that didn't
do it.-

It worked!!!

To the extent necessary: my keyboard shortcuts are available again. (I
wonder whether they'll leak into Word2007; the normal.dotx is in the
same folder.)

But my quirky toolbars did not reappear. Is their customization stored
somewhere else that I can retrieve?

On Oct 21, 12:53*pm, "Jay Freedman" wrote:
I'm not at my Vista machine at the moment, so I'm working from memory
(notoriously dangerous!). In Windows Explorer (a.k.a. "Computer"), enter the
location
* *%appdata%\Microsoft\Templates
in the box at the top left and press Enter, which should get you to an
otherwise hidden folder at C:\Users\profile
name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates. That's the equivalent of the
Templates folder in XP.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP * * * *FAQ:http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.



grammatim wrote:
It's been three months, but I FINALLY have an actual new PC, with my
old files copied onto a new (partitioned) drive -- but Vista was not
installed over XP, so that everything simply shows up in the new
system.

I therefore now have Word2003 with a pristine normal.dot. I was able
to find an old normal.dot in my old "Applications & Data" folder that
has a suitable "Last Modified" date, but I can't discover where to put
it within Vista so that Word2003 can find it. (Vista also has
Office2007 on it,) I found a folder called Templates, but that didn't
do it.-

If you made your 2003 toolbars by customizing the built-in toolbars, they
won't appear in 2007. If they were created _de novo_ as custom toolbars in
2003, they should appear in an Add-Ins tab on the ribbon (which shows up
only if there are custom toolbars to display). Graham covers all this in
http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm.

grammatim wrote:
It worked!!!

To the extent necessary: my keyboard shortcuts are available again. (I
wonder whether they'll leak into Word2007; the normal.dotx is in the
same folder.)

But my quirky toolbars did not reappear. Is their customization stored
somewhere else that I can retrieve?

On Oct 21, 12:53 pm, "Jay Freedman" wrote:
I'm not at my Vista machine at the moment, so I'm working from memory
(notoriously dangerous!). In Windows Explorer (a.k.a. "Computer"),
enter the location
%appdata%\Microsoft\Templates
in the box at the top left and press Enter, which should get you to
an otherwise hidden folder at C:\Users\profile
name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates. That's the equivalent of
the Templates folder in XP.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ:http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.



grammatim wrote:
It's been three months, but I FINALLY have an actual new PC, with my
old files copied onto a new (partitioned) drive -- but Vista was not
installed over XP, so that everything simply shows up in the new
system.

I therefore now have Word2003 with a pristine normal.dot. I was able
to find an old normal.dot in my old "Applications & Data" folder
that has a suitable "Last Modified" date, but I can't discover
where to put it within Vista so that Word2003 can find it. (Vista
also has Office2007 on it,) I found a folder called Templates, but
that didn't do it.-

My point is that if you locate the new, characterless one, you can then copy
your old one over it.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"grammatim" wrote in message
...
No -- I no longer have Word2003 on a pre-Vista drive; when 2003
installed, it made its own new normal.dot inside Vista (and didn't
affect the old one). So any New document opens with the new,
characterless template.

On Oct 21, 2:12 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
You could open Word 2003, make a small change that would affect
Normal.dot,
and then search for the copy of Normal.dot that was just created; copy
your
old Normal.dot over that, and Bob's your uncle.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"grammatim" wrote in message

...



It's been three months, but I FINALLY have an actual new PC, with my
old files copied onto a new (partitioned) drive -- but Vista was not
installed over XP, so that everything simply shows up in the new
system.

I therefore now have Word2003 with a pristine normal.dot. I was able
to find an old normal.dot in my old "Applications & Data" folder that
has a suitable "Last Modified" date, but I can't discover where to put
it within Vista so that Word2003 can find it. (Vista also has
Office2007 on it,) I found a folder called Templates, but that didn't
do it.-

No, I want my customized toolbars to appear in my new copy of
Word2003.

I have no hope of getting my customized QAT back, as I don't have the
slightest idea what happened to the hard drive that was in what turned
out to be the interim computer. (My computer guy claimed he had
transferred all the files, but in fact he hadn't; I had to copy them
from my backup drive that I put them on before I handed over the
computer. So only in the unlikely event that Word2007 info is
somewhere in the Documents folder can I retrieve _that_ set of
settings.)

On Oct 21, 4:52*pm, "Jay Freedman" wrote:
If you made your 2003 toolbars by customizing the built-in toolbars, they
won't appear in 2007. If they were created _de novo_ as custom toolbars in
2003, they should appear in an Add-Ins tab on the ribbon (which shows up
only if there are custom toolbars to display). Graham covers all this inhttp://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm.



grammatim wrote:
It worked!!!

To the extent necessary: my keyboard shortcuts are available again. (I
wonder whether they'll leak into Word2007; the normal.dotx is in the
same folder.)

But my quirky toolbars did not reappear. Is their customization stored
somewhere else that I can retrieve?

On Oct 21, 12:53 pm, "Jay Freedman" wrote:
I'm not at my Vista machine at the moment, so I'm working from memory
(notoriously dangerous!). In Windows Explorer (a.k.a. "Computer"),
enter the location
%appdata%\Microsoft\Templates
in the box at the top left and press Enter, which should get you to
an otherwise hidden folder at C:\Users\profile
name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates. That's the equivalent of
the Templates folder in XP.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ:http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.

grammatim wrote:
It's been three months, but I FINALLY have an actual new PC, with my
old files copied onto a new (partitioned) drive -- but Vista was not
installed over XP, so that everything simply shows up in the new
system.

I therefore now have Word2003 with a pristine normal.dot. I was able
to find an old normal.dot in my old "Applications & Data" folder
that has a suitable "Last Modified" date, but I can't discover
where to put it within Vista so that Word2003 can find it. (Vista
also has Office2007 on it,) I found a folder called Templates, but
that didn't do it.--

And Jay told me where to find it ... but why would one want to go
through making a little change in the one one was getting rid of?

On Oct 21, 4:56*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
My point is that if you locate the new, characterless one, you can then copy
your old one over it.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"grammatim" wrote in message

...
No -- I no longer have Word2003 on a pre-Vista drive; when 2003
installed, it made its own new normal.dot inside Vista (and didn't
affect the old one). So any New document opens with the new,
characterless template.

On Oct 21, 2:12 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:



You could open Word 2003, make a small change that would affect
Normal.dot,
and then search for the copy of Normal.dot that was just created; copy
your
old Normal.dot over that, and Bob's your uncle.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"grammatim" wrote in message

....

It's been three months, but I FINALLY have an actual new PC, with my
old files copied onto a new (partitioned) drive -- but Vista was not
installed over XP, so that everything simply shows up in the new
system.

I therefore now have Word2003 with a pristine normal.dot. I was able
to find an old normal.dot in my old "Applications & Data" folder that
has a suitable "Last Modified" date, but I can't discover where to put
it within Vista so that Word2003 can find it. (Vista also has
Office2007 on it,) I found a folder called Templates, but that didn't
do it.--

To make it show up. The (perhaps unconfirmed) conventional wisdom is that,
in recent versions of Word, Normal.dot doesn't exist as an actual file (as
opposed to internal hard-wired defaults) until you customize it.

But you should also be able to get the template path from the File Locations
tab of Tools | Options.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"grammatim" wrote in message
...
And Jay told me where to find it ... but why would one want to go
through making a little change in the one one was getting rid of?

On Oct 21, 4:56 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
My point is that if you locate the new, characterless one, you can then
copy
your old one over it.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"grammatim" wrote in message

...
No -- I no longer have Word2003 on a pre-Vista drive; when 2003
installed, it made its own new normal.dot inside Vista (and didn't
affect the old one). So any New document opens with the new,
characterless template.

On Oct 21, 2:12 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:



You could open Word 2003, make a small change that would affect
Normal.dot,
and then search for the copy of Normal.dot that was just created; copy
your
old Normal.dot over that, and Bob's your uncle.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"grammatim" wrote in message

...

It's been three months, but I FINALLY have an actual new PC, with my
old files copied onto a new (partitioned) drive -- but Vista was not
installed over XP, so that everything simply shows up in the new
system.

I therefore now have Word2003 with a pristine normal.dot. I was able
to find an old normal.dot in my old "Applications & Data" folder that
has a suitable "Last Modified" date, but I can't discover where to put
it within Vista so that Word2003 can find it. (Vista also has
Office2007 on it,) I found a folder called Templates, but that didn't
do it.--