LT> We have a novell network at work, and I store all 
 LT> our word templates on
 LT> the file server at:
 LT> m:\templates\word
 LT> On each person's copy of word (6.0), I have the options set up so that
 LT> it points to that directory for the templates.
 LT> But then the receptionist changed her settings on 
 LT> Thursday, and when the
 LT> computer operator went into her machine this-morning, she has the
 LT> settings that the receptionist made last Thursday and she doesn't want
 LT> them.
 LT> I thought the way it worked was that it should read the one file
 LT> (normal.dot) off the file server and everyone should be the same.  Why
 LT> are some people the same, and some people not?
 
Dear Lauren,
You should NOT have a common NORMAL.DOT for everyone. Look up the
settings that NORMAL.DOT keeps in www.microsoft.com/kb and you
will see that it keeps many personal settings like default font,
autotext entries etc... 
Which means that if you keep one NORMAL.DOT for everyone, you have
effectively reduced Word's functionality by a huge amount.
You should point corporate templates to the network drive, i.e.
in the Options|File Locations|Workgroup templates but leave
the Personal templates to a local drive, Options|File Locations|
User Templates. Therefore each person will have their own NORMAL.DOT
To provide everyone with updated versions of macros, etc..., it
ask them to open a new document based on a corporate template.
 
Ananda.Sim@law.monash.edu.au
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