OK: That's what I thought might be happening.
1) Always create your "Notebook" documents fresh. Notebooks are fairly
fragile, they won't stand much editing. And they certainly won't stand
being copied and used again.
2) The internal structure of a Notebook document is slightly different from
an ordinary document, so it's a bad idea to change the view out of Notebook
Layout. When you do, you have a high risk of internally corrupting the
Notebook.
It may be worth replacing your Normal template at this stage. The basic
structure for every document you create is held in the Normal template. If
you save something to Normal that conflicts, unreliable Notebooks is one
possibility.
The replace the Normal template, Quit Word then drag it to the desktop.
Word will create a new one when it restarts. But Word holds Normal in
memory, so if it is running when you do this, it will just save the old one
straight back to the disk.
Hope this helps
I also noted it will open a prior saved Notebook layout without crashing. From
the menu it will also open a new notebook layout document, but if I switch to
any other layout and back to notebook it crashes. I don't remember this
happening before.
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