![]() I saved a Microsoft Word File As a Template, instead of a document - by mistake. Now I can't delete the file. Each time I try it says it is being used by another program. ![]() I tried locating it in the c:/ but the file is not there, just the normal template file. I'm using Word 2010. Operating system. I saved a Microsoft Word File As a Template, instead of a document - by mistake. Now I can't delete the file. ![]() Each time I try it says it is being used by another program. I tried locating it in the c:/ but the file is not there, just the normal template file. I'm using Word 2010. Operating system: Windows 8. I have been searching for hours. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Best Answer: The template for new docs in Word 2010 is normal.dotm. When you open Word, a document made from this template is displayed. ![]() You can not delete this template when Word is open. To locate this or any Word template, paste this at the Start button:%appdata% Microsoft Templates Navigate to the template and right click on it and select delete. EDIT: Since it is not in the Templates directory, try to search for it. Microsoft Office; Word; How to Format a Table in Word 2010; How to Format a Table in Word 2010. Deleting a Word table. To utterly remove the table from your. At the Start button type '*.dot' without the quotes. This should find templates not in the template directory. • Tell us some more • Upload in progress • Upload failed. Please upload a file larger than 100 x 100 pixels • We are experiencing some problems, please try again. • You can only upload files of type PNG, JPG or JPEG. • You can only upload files of type 3GP, 3GPP, MP4, MOV, AVI, MPG, MPEG or RM. • You can only upload photos smaller than 5 MB. • You can only upload videos smaller than 600 MB. • You can only upload a photo (png, jpg, jpeg) or video (3gp, 3gpp, mp4, mov, avi, mpg, mpeg, rm). • You can only upload a photo or video. • Video should be smaller than 600 MB/5 minutes • Photo should be smaller than 5 MB •. One of the greatest unanswered questions of all time will inevitably go down in history as: “Why did Microsoft change the normal.dot template of MS Word to Calibri 11 with extra spacing and multiple lines?” The question following that will be: “Who on this planet actually enjoys using this style?” My speculations and further comments on the matter cannot be written in a public venue. So, what is the normal.dot or normal.dotm? This is the “blank” document on which all new MS Word documents are based. If you work at a larger office or corporation, chances are your IT staff have already rectified this ghastly situation for you. If you are a solo practitioner or in a small office, you are perhaps still struggling with the aforementioned unwieldly style. Here is the quick solution. In 2013, open the Run dialog on your computer (press Windows Logo + R or click Start Button> Run). Type%appdata% Microsoft Templates into the text region and press. Windows explorer will open the template directory. Right click the Normal.dotm file, and choose Open from the context menu. In 2007 & 2010, 0pen MS Word. In 2007, click on the Office Button in the upper left corner of your screen. Click on Open. Under Microsoft Office Word there will be a folder labelled Templates. Click Templates and then double click the Normal.dotm file. This should open the MS Word 2007 template. In 2010, click File> Open. Under Microsoft Word there will be a folder labelled Templates. Click Templates and then double click the Normal.dotm file. This should open the MS Word 2010 template. [click image for larger view] Press on the keyboard to select everything (even though there is nothing but one blank line there). Now you are free to change the Font (perhaps to Times New Roman), and Font Size (perhaps to 12). Most importantly, click on Paragraph (the region highlighted in the screenshot below with a red box) and edit the spacing according to your personal preferences (likely what is displayed in the screenshot below). [click image for larger view] Save the document template with your changes. All future documents created will carry the formatting style you previously set in the template. I encountered a similar problem. I believe the difficulty is that you are not storing the changes to the “real” Normal template. In my case I had difficulty finding the real Normal template, and I tried following suggestions that were left on this forum. They pretty much did not work – changes would hold until I re-booted the computer, and then they would disappear. Instead of following the suggestions that had been posted here, I found a work-around for locating the Normal template – sorry, I can’t recall what it was – it may have been something like using the template manager, or examining the properties of the Normal template to find its file path. In any event, I was able to make permanent changes to fonts, etc. You may want to give further consideration to the idea of adding photos and text to the Normal template. Once you do that, the additions appear in everything. In most cases you would be better off to make the changes you want for fonts, etc. In the Normal template, and then create a new template with a different name to use when you need the one with photos and text. For example, I have a letterhead template that is based on Normal – it includes a stylized header, etc., so it applies to all letters, but that header is not in the Normal template so it doesn’t apply to other documents. Thanks for the reply. Only reason I wanted to do this is because I have about 800 pages with section breaks in it and everywhere it starts a new section break I need it to create its own document. I have a macro to do that but it loses my headings when it creates the new document so I thought I would be smarter than the computer (haha) and add the header to the normal.dotm. I am waiting for my IT dept. To call me back and make sure I am updating normal in the correct spot. OR If I could get that macro to use a template like you suggested – that would work – I am not VBA trained though so I am not sure how to write the code to do that. Windows 7 doesn’t come with office pre-installed, so it would be the version of office you are using that matters – HOWEVER, IF all you wish to do is change the default settings for the normal style then you can modify the STYLES and set the normal style to whatever you want – tell it that the changes should apply to the template and you should be done. Similarly, if you wish to change the page layout for margins and paper size etc, you can do this by using the “format page” option and ensuring you “set as Default” for your changes. For Spanish versions of Word, select all with Ctrl+E. Do NOT try to find the logic in this change. It might damage you. Spaniards are very fond of translating everything – might be some kind of compensating mechanism. My native language is Spanish too, but I’m Argentine and we don’t have any problem absorbing all kinds of Anglicisms, be them technical or not. Thanks for the article. I did know how to do it but I’m too tired to think about this, while I’m trying to fix an Active Directory which collapses every time they try to create a new account (no more RIDs available) and trying to setup a secondary VM to migrate a snapshot of another one with a disk of 120GB holding an Exchange Server, with only 4GB to spare. All of this two weeks before our 12 year-old (three terms) ruling administration hands over government to the newly elected opposition (I voted for the latter) and are going into scorched-earth mode. Did I say I work in a government facility? SO, thinking about how to change the normal template? No the first priority at the moment! Thanks again! Just now, I opened my paper manuscript file (in Word 2013 version), and the blue pop-up window started to load this Word file but it hung for a long time without opening the file successfully. Then I double-clicked this file again, and it was opened fine. That pop-up window was still loading at that time. Then I closed the file which was opened at the second time and logged off my computer. However, when I tried to open this file again, I was told that the Normal.dotm file was damaged and the computer will delete it and create a new Normal.dotm file. Then everything seems OK. I am still worried that whether this accident will affect my paper manuscript file or not (like the customized styles, content, or figure quality). Using Word 2010 (64-bit) under Windows 7 (64-bit): (I’m using Compatibilty Mode for Word 2003 – but that’s probably not relevant.) Click on the Change Styles tab on the right. Click on Paragraph Spacing. Click on Custom Paragraph Spacing. Change whatever you want (I changed it to Arial 12). Mark (check) New Documents based on this template (at the bottom). (First prompt: Do you want to save changes you made to Document1? Don’t save.) Second prompt: Changes have been made that affect the global template, Normal.dotm. Do you want to save these changes? That worked for me! Have been trying to change the background color for hours now in MSWord 10, looking up anything and everything. I open the normal.dotm file, hit Ctl-a make the page color changes in page layout (no option to set as default), so choose page setup and hit save as default. In the Options, have gone to Advanced and checked off Show Background Colors have come out of it, saving it as Doc1 etc, didn’t work, then came out using Ctrl-S, didn’t save first time, and second popup said to save Global Template, said yes. But every time I open it again, get the same white background. I must be missing something but can’t see it. Any help would be hugely appreciated! Diwatz, I’ve never posted before but I’ve tried this and it worked for me. Open a Word document – go to ‘page layout’. Under ‘page background’ choose ‘page colour’ and choose whatever colour you wish to use (you can change margins, fonts, etc now too) – now save this as a template – click ‘file’ and ‘save as’. Choose an existing folder or create a new folder to save in. Under ‘filename’ put name of template. Under ‘save as type’ hit the arrow on the right, scroll down and choose ‘Word template’ – ‘save’. For easy access to this template, go to the folder where you’ve saved the template, right click, copy. Go to Word, ‘file’ and ‘new’. Choose ‘my templates’ tab at top – open and paste your template into it. This is like your own little personal filing cabinet where you can easily access all the templates you’ve customised for yourself. Good luck and hope it works for you! Hi this doesn’t seem to work any more. To explain: when you adjust the normal.dot document it then asks you where you want to save it (it insists on making you do ‘save as’) but then you have no idea where to save it to When you go to find the system folder that you opened it from, through the save as dialog box, it’s impossible to find because it doesn’t show you same files as it does in the location you opened the normal.dot in It’s all very confusing. Why Microsoft has made it this absurdly difficult to have to go around to the back end of the system to change the default settings remains an absolute mystery especially given it’s the 2010 edition. But we all appreciate you didn’t create this problem you’re kind enough to offer us all a solution to it, that I’ve used before, but which does not now seem to still work in the same way. In case you’re able / wish to replicate the problem to see if you have any idea how to work around it. Thanks either way. 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