Default font style when opening Word

[General Confusion]

When I open Word, it's defaulting to a right-justified heading style, rather
than defaulting to the left justified Normal style. How do I fix this?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Open Normal.dot for editing, select the default empty paragraph, and apply
the Normal style. Save and close.

 

[General Confusion]

Maybe I'm doing something wrong. I located Normal.dot and opened it. I went
to Format>Styles and Formatting, clicked Normal. Attempting to save, it's
defaulting to saving as a .doc file. When I attempt to save it as
"Normal.dot", it tells me "Word cannot give a document the same name as an
open document...".

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Sounds like you created a new document based on Normal.dot (if you just
double-clicked on it in an Explorer window, this is what happened, since the
default action for .dot files is New). For instructions on opening
Normal.dot for editing, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/BlankDocNotBlank.htm

 

[General Confusion]

Thanks, Suzanne. I'll give it a shot.

Sounds like you created a new document based on Normal.dot (if you just
double-clicked on it in an Explorer window, this is what happened, since the
default action for .dot files is New). For instructions on opening
Normal.dot for editing, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/BlankDocNotBlank.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA