This is very helpful. The trouble is that I always screw up my work with templates. I did it with the PCs I worked with for 100 years, and with the Mac I’ve worked with for six months.
Here’s what happens (and I’m probably not working with the same template I started out the day with):
I do what you tell me to do. I go to the Normal.dotm template in User Templates, double click on it, and it opens as Document1.docx. I do nothing but go to Tools and check the “Automatically hyphenate document” box and save that. I go to Save (not Save as) and then save the document as Normal.dotm. It does not go to the User Templates but to Documents in my User Name. I then find it and copy it to User Templates. Doesn’t work.
In Library, under Office, I have not only User Templates, but My Templates under User Templates (as well as My Themes, which I haven’t touched). I have tried the latest Normal.dotm under both User Templates and My Tem-plates. Neither works. In fact, I have even screwed it up so that Word opens, but I’m told the template is corrupt (I don’t think that’s the exact word that’s used.) I then man-age to get it back to where it opens normally, and I start all over again.
I’m sure I’m make this more complicated than I need to. But it puzzles me why the template opens as a regular document rather than as a template, and specifically, the Normal.dotm template.
It seems simple and I’m sure your answer is correct. So what am I doing wrong. Once I’ve made the change in the document, how specifically should I save it. And why doesn’t it go write to User Templates? And should it be there or in My Templates? Right now it’s in both.
Any further help you can give me would be much appreciated.