"corrupt" normal.dot

I recently installed Office2003Pro to replace Office97Pro on a Dell Dimension
4550 P4 2.5GHz computer running WinXPHomeSP1. The normal.dot file from
Word97 contained several macros that I can no longer use because I am no
longer with my former employer; the macros I am particularly these were
primarily macros to print on different LAN printers.

I have tried to remove these macros and have ended up with alternative
versions of normal.dot listed in the project pane when I switch to VB. When
I try to view these, I get the following message: Project Locked Project is
Unviewable. In addition, it will note allow me to delete these projects.
How can I force it to delete these unwanted projects??

I have copied and pasted a a "fresh" copy of normal.dot from another
(laptop) computer, but when I launch Word2003 on my desktop, I still get the
same VB page!!??

Thanks for your help.

Jezebel
Thu Mar 15 19:13:55 CDT 2007

If they are showing up as projects when you switch to VBA, but are not
loaded as documents, then they are being loaded as add-ins. This means
you've made a bit of a mistake with folders during your installation. Start
Word and go to Tools > Options > File locations. Have a look at the
'Startup' folder -- by the sounds of it, this is set to the same folder that
contains your templates. It shouldn't be. Any .dot file in the startup
folder gets loaded as an add-in when you start Word. (The reason these
projects are unviewable is that the template itself needs to be opened as a
document for you to view its code.)

So the fix is:

1. Sort out the folders that Word is using.
2. Browse to the startup folder and delete the templates you don't want
loaded as addins.




"njmeatball" <njmeatball@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:65057A86-2627-48EF-950A-BF2749CF2632@microsoft.com...
>I recently installed Office2003Pro to replace Office97Pro on a Dell
>Dimension
> 4550 P4 2.5GHz computer running WinXPHomeSP1. The normal.dot file from
> Word97 contained several macros that I can no longer use because I am no
> longer with my former employer; the macros I am particularly these were
> primarily macros to print on different LAN printers.
>
> I have tried to remove these macros and have ended up with alternative
> versions of normal.dot listed in the project pane when I switch to VB.
> When
> I try to view these, I get the following message: Project Locked Project
> is
> Unviewable. In addition, it will note allow me to delete these projects.
> How can I force it to delete these unwanted projects??
>
> I have copied and pasted a a "fresh" copy of normal.dot from another
> (laptop) computer, but when I launch Word2003 on my desktop, I still get
> the
> same VB page!!??
>
> Thanks for your help.

njmeatball
Thu Mar 15 21:04:00 CDT 2007

Jezebel:

THANKS!! That's exactly what I had done and pointing to a different folder
for start-up solved it.

Thanks again and have a great weekend.

NJMeatball 20070315

"Jezebel" wrote:

> If they are showing up as projects when you switch to VBA, but are not
> loaded as documents, then they are being loaded as add-ins. This means
> you've made a bit of a mistake with folders during your installation. Start
> Word and go to Tools > Options > File locations. Have a look at the
> 'Startup' folder -- by the sounds of it, this is set to the same folder that
> contains your templates. It shouldn't be. Any .dot file in the startup
> folder gets loaded as an add-in when you start Word. (The reason these
> projects are unviewable is that the template itself needs to be opened as a
> document for you to view its code.)
>
> So the fix is:
>
> 1. Sort out the folders that Word is using.
> 2. Browse to the startup folder and delete the templates you don't want
> loaded as addins.
>
>
>
>
> "njmeatball" <njmeatball@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:65057A86-2627-48EF-950A-BF2749CF2632@microsoft.com...
> >I recently installed Office2003Pro to replace Office97Pro on a Dell
> >Dimension
> > 4550 P4 2.5GHz computer running WinXPHomeSP1. The normal.dot file from
> > Word97 contained several macros that I can no longer use because I am no
> > longer with my former employer; the macros I am particularly these were
> > primarily macros to print on different LAN printers.
> >
> > I have tried to remove these macros and have ended up with alternative
> > versions of normal.dot listed in the project pane when I switch to VB.
> > When
> > I try to view these, I get the following message: Project Locked Project
> > is
> > Unviewable. In addition, it will note allow me to delete these projects.
> > How can I force it to delete these unwanted projects??
> >
> > I have copied and pasted a a "fresh" copy of normal.dot from another
> > (laptop) computer, but when I launch Word2003 on my desktop, I still get
> > the
> > same VB page!!??
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
>
>
>