In print view, new blank pages don't appear automatically but wha.

M

Meetroid

I usually work in print view. Recently, when I open a new blank document and
start typing, when i get to the end of the page I can keep typing but no new
blank page appears with the extra typing on it - like it used to. If I go to
Normal or outline view, I can see the material.
 
G

garfield-n-odie

In Word, open your normal.dot template, click on Format | Columns | One
| Apply to: Whole document | OK. Even if "One" already appears to be
selected, click on it anyway. Type a character or two and then delete
what you just typed. Save your normal.dot template. In Word 2002 and
2003, normal.dot should be a hidden file in the "C:\Documents and
Settings\<username>\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates" folder.
 
M

Meetroid

Thanks for your post - Sorry to be an ignoramus - but I found the file using
Search because I couldn't see it when I looked in the OPEN dialog in WORD.
But when I double clicked on normal.dot in Explorer, it just opened a new Doc
NN file in WORD and not something named normal.dot

I did note that the last change to the normal.dot template was long before i
started having this problem. Can you tell me how to actually open
normal.dot? I'm using Word 2000
 
S

Suzanne S. Barnhill

The default action for .dot files is New, not Open. If you want to open
Normal.dot for editing from Explorer (as opposed to from within Word), you
have to right-click and choose Open.
 
M

Meetroid

That solved the problem - but why? Thanks a bunch. It was REALLY an
annoying problem and I didn't have a clue... And also Suzanne's hint about
how to open the dopey file (which I couldn't actually SEE from inside WORD).
You guys are TOP DOGS!

So double thanks a bunch...

C!
 
S

Suzanne S. Barnhill

For some bizarre reason, sometimes Word decides you have more than one
column in the document but formats the first column to the margin width,
leaving no room for an additional column.
 
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