BD> What in the world would you want to do to Normal.dot 
 BD> that cannot be managed by the document organizer or 
 BD> word's automatic update to normal.dot?  I cannot think 
 BD> of anything.
  
Insert boilerplate text?  Last week I hacked someone's normal.dot so that the 
document field code displays as a footer in the last page of the document.  I 
couldn't do that except by opening the normal.dot file.
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