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Dehcbad25
August 8th, 2002, 17:58 PM
at one of the workstation there is a problem. After the document is saved, when you try to reopen it, the format looks like if it was simple text.
Anny sugestions :D

egghead
August 8th, 2002, 20:43 PM
you are using m$ word for office?

1st- when you save the document look at the dropbox and select the proper format you want to save it as

ex... txt doc etc.......

if that is not the problem as i believe you knew about that then try deleting the normal.dot template to reset the defaults to factory

then it should save it fine

if you dont know where to locate the file
go here
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q214215&

win2000 and xp are the same



egghead

Dehcbad25
August 8th, 2002, 21:12 PM
MS Word 2000, running in Windows NT I belive (anyway the OS makes no difference). The files are being saved in .doc format, which is the default.
I wil try this and see what happens. Thanks:D

egghead
August 8th, 2002, 21:41 PM
the file normal.dot is located in a different place for each os


egghead

Dehcbad25
August 8th, 2002, 22:02 PM
Yep, I saw :D
Though I couldn't find it in my W2K machine
I will let you know if this works;)

Dehcbad25
August 14th, 2002, 04:47 AM
egghead. You are a saviour. Erasing the normal.dot did the trick. This person told me that haven't had another problem with the format again, and the whole week went on test.
I wish I could fix all my problems this way ;)

egghead
August 14th, 2002, 05:19 AM
right on!

glad i can help

cheers
egghead