-=> On 01-14-97  17:47, Bob Davis <=-
 -=> spoke to Dale Shipp about Re: Open Error in Word. <=-
 DS>  Would it matter that I have changed the location where my
 DS> edit files  are kept?
 BD> What are edit files?  Do you mean your document files?
 Suppose so -- I have created a directory directly underneath MSOFFICE
 called rdsdata and then underneath that have one directory for excel
 and another for winword.  That way, I can just back them up instead of
 the entire msoffice\winword\... structure.
 BD> Try this.
 BD> 1. Go to winword\startup and remove all files to a hold directory.
 There was one file there, called present.dot.  No idea what was in it
 or where it came from.
 BD> 2. Find all copies of normal.dot and move them to a hold directory.
 One copy, in msoffice\winword\template.
 BD> 3. Start Word.
 Error message disappeared.  When I closed, it recreated normal.dot -- a
 little bit smaller than the old one was.
 Now -- tell me what was going on and why.  I only recently started
 running msoffice (used to use WP5.2 -- but people I work with are doing
 msoffice so I switched to make it easier to exchange.)   I don't yet
 know a lot of the inner workings of how it is doing things.
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