Risk in deselecting prompt to save normal template in Word? in Word General Questions    |   |  Help   Search For:     In:   Office   Word     Word General Questions     Word New Users     Word Application Errors     Word Drawing and Graphics     Word Mailmerge and Fax     Word Page Layout     Word Programming     Word Tables              GlennH 5/10/2007 10:04 AM PST   Question   I keep getting asked to save changes to my normal template when I close Outlook - are there any dangers in deselection "Prompt for changes to normal template"?     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top           Suzanne S. Barnhill 5/10/2007 12:29 PM PST   Answer   Yes. If you deselect it, you give Word permission to save Normal.dot without asking you. See “Word prompts me to save changes to the Normal.dot template” at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011514521033.aspx -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "GlennH" <GlennH@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:D44E07B8-EF8F-450B-AA4F-5D6910073956@microsoft.com... > I keep getting asked to save changes to my normal template when I close > Outlook - are there any dangers in deselection "Prompt for changes to normal > template"?     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top           rob in contracts 9/17/2009 12:43 PM PST   The discussion you referenced doesn't seem to help with version 2007. I did look at my Word startup folder and I see nothing in it. This error message started popping up recently and now comes up every time I exit a document. Do you know of any fix? Thanks. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: > Yes. If you deselect it, you give Word permission to save Normal.dot without > asking you. See “Word prompts me to save changes to the Normal.dot template” > at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011514521033.aspx > > -- > Suzanne S. Barnhill > Microsoft MVP (Word) > Words into Type > Fairhope, Alabama USA > Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org > Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so > all may benefit. > > "GlennH" <GlennH@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:D44E07B8-EF8F-450B-AA4F-5D6910073956@microsoft.com... > > I keep getting asked to save changes to my normal template when I close > > Outlook - are there any dangers in deselection "Prompt for changes to > normal > > template"? > >     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top         Return to Microsoft Communities   Notify me of replies