>-> template. I keep a very vanilla normal.dot around just for this. In
 >-> this way I can inhale the troublesome document into a new template
 >-> based on the vanilla normal.dot.
 > How do you create this vanilla normal.dot and where do you keep it?
 > Is
 > it just an extra copy of your Normal.Dot?
A vanilla normal.dot (or a Word 6.0 default normal.dot) is quite easy to 
create.  Find where your normal.dot is currently residing--c:\winword, 
c:\msoffice\winword, etc.  Rename the file (I usually rename it nor-old.dot). 
 Start up Word and it will automagically create a new normal.dot.  Then 
rename IT, and rename the old normal.dot back to normal.dot.
        Lawrence,
        Moderator, MS_WORD
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