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<blockquote data-quote="bootsontrail" data-source="post: 1795364" data-attributes="member: 296777"><p>It's Word 2008 12.3.6</p><p></p><p>Insert has Date&Time in the pull-down menu. It gives a list of formats for inserting the date, with or without the time. See below. It seems Word is not updating the file I'm in but a file with the same name in a different folder.</p><p></p><p>This is probably a clue to what's going on: When I open Word, it opens a blank page named Template1. If I try to rename that doc as Normal.dotm, the screen tells me I can't rename an open doc.</p><p></p><p>That must mean what Word is calling Template1 is really Normal.dotm</p><p></p><p>But still, I changed three Normal.dotm files in the User Templates, My Templates and Documents folders to my specs, but Word opens Template1 with the wrong specs.</p><p></p><p>Of the three Normal.dotm files I changed the specs in, the only one that showed the date of my change was in the Documents folder.</p><p></p><p>Maybe that means that although it appears to me that I'm changing Normal.dotm in User Templates and My Templates, what's really happening that I don't see is I'm serially changing the Normal.dotm in the Documents folder, but when Word opens to Template1 (actually Normal.dotm) it's using the unchanged version in User Templates or My Templates.</p><p></p><p>If so, how do I change the specs in the Normal.dotm files in the User Templates and My Templates folders?</p><p></p><p>It seems the path embedded in the software is wrong.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bootsontrail, post: 1795364, member: 296777"] It's Word 2008 12.3.6 Insert has Date&Time in the pull-down menu. It gives a list of formats for inserting the date, with or without the time. See below. It seems Word is not updating the file I'm in but a file with the same name in a different folder. This is probably a clue to what's going on: When I open Word, it opens a blank page named Template1. If I try to rename that doc as Normal.dotm, the screen tells me I can't rename an open doc. That must mean what Word is calling Template1 is really Normal.dotm But still, I changed three Normal.dotm files in the User Templates, My Templates and Documents folders to my specs, but Word opens Template1 with the wrong specs. Of the three Normal.dotm files I changed the specs in, the only one that showed the date of my change was in the Documents folder. Maybe that means that although it appears to me that I'm changing Normal.dotm in User Templates and My Templates, what's really happening that I don't see is I'm serially changing the Normal.dotm in the Documents folder, but when Word opens to Template1 (actually Normal.dotm) it's using the unchanged version in User Templates or My Templates. If so, how do I change the specs in the Normal.dotm files in the User Templates and My Templates folders? It seems the path embedded in the software is wrong. [/QUOTE]
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