normal.dot being changed when a document is opened into Word

Thank you for trying to help me out.

Sincerely,

Ronald R. Dodge, Jr.
Master MOUS 2000

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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I'm out of ideas. All I can say is that this behavior is not normal.

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"Ronald Dodge" wrote in message
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Well nothing in there either, but either way, I can generally tell if
there's macros involved. The only thing in the list of macros are
dealing
with word commands.

Sincerely,

Ronald R. Dodge, Jr.
Master MOUS 2000

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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I was suggesting that you look in Tools | Macro | Macros.

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"Ronald Dodge" wrote in message
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When I open up the document, I go to the VBA side of Word to verify
the
claim.

There is nothing in any of the macros other than when I click on the
"ThisDocument" under the documents "VBAProjects,Objects", it does put
in
the
line "Explicit Option". However, that line is put in cause of the
option
that I have set within the VBA environment to force explicit
declarations
of
*ALL* variables.

The only other item I see, each word document is set to reference the
normal
document. I do explicitly use references when I work in VBA, but
that's
mostly either in Access or Excel, not in Word.

Sincerely,

Ronald R. Dodge, Jr.
Master MOUS 2000

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Well, the bottom line is that this is not normal behavior, and there
must
be
something bizarre about the documents that are doing this. You say
that
they
don't contain any macros. Does Word contain any macros at all that
you
don't
recognize or understand? What you might specifically look for would
be
an
AutoOpen or AutoClose macro.

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"Ronald Dodge" wrote in message
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That's a start, but what about preventing other documents from even
attempting to changing this file when those documents are opened?
While
I
may be tech savy, I could also see other users not thinking about
it
and
quite possibly click on "Yes" only to realize later on that they
didn't
want
to do that.

Sincerely,

Ronald R. Dodge, Jr.
Master MOUS 2000

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Well, the first thing you should do is make sure that the box for
"Prompt
to
save Normal template" is checked on the Save tab of Tools |
Options.
This
will prevent Normal.dot from being changed without your
permission.

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"Ronald Dodge" wrote in message
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Yes, I am saying just that.

After I opened the document from the other user, I got a message
stating
specifically that the normal.dot file has been changed. There
wasn't
even
an option if I wanted it to update or save the file.

I closed out of Word, reopened Word, then when it created the
new
document,
it had the same margins as the document that I had opened
earlier
that
changed the normal.dot file.

As I stated, I don't want this sort of behavior.

Thanks,

Ronald R. Dodge, Jr.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Your defaults apply only to documents you create. I hope you
aren't
expecting these to apply to external documents you open? Are
you
saying
that
just opening a document with different margins changes the
margin
settings
in new documents you create thereafter?

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"Ronald Dodge" wrote in message
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WINXPPRO, SP2
WORD2002, SP3

I opened up a document from an email which has no macros or
anything
of
the
like in it. I know the rules of documents, and I have my
default
page
setup
set a certain way for a reason. Why should someone else's
document
change
my pagesetup via the normal.dot document when it opens up on
my
computer?

When I was first in college, it was to be 1 inch margins
around.
Since
that
time, it's seems to me at least the side margins has been
relaxed
to
be
0.5
inch margins, but yet, Word is by default set to 1.25 inch
side
margins.
Someone else has created a document using the default margin,
emailed
it
to
others, and I know at least on my system, it has reverted my
default
settings from what I had it to the settings in the document
that
was
opened.
How can I prevent this from happening?

Sincerely,

Ronald R. Dodge, Jr.
Master MOUS 2000