{"id":449,"date":"2016-04-12T20:19:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T00:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulbegley.com\/?p=449"},"modified":"2016-04-12T20:28:41","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T00:28:41","slug":"edit-word-normal-dot-template","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/?p=449","title":{"rendered":"Edit Word Normal.dot template"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><font style=\"font-weight: normal;\">How to open the Normal template in any version of Word<\/font><\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>To edit the normal template in any version of Word on any Windows operating system do the following: <\/li>\n<li>Open Word.<\/li>\n<li>Open the vba Editor by Pressing <b>Alt+F11<\/b> together.<\/li>\n<li>At the bottom of the vba Editor window is something called the Immediate window. (Press Ctrl+G to activate this window if you don&#8217;t see it.) Click in that Immediate window.<\/li>\n<li>Type the following (or copy it from here and paste it): <\/li>\n<li>application.NormalTemplate.OpenAsDocument<\/li>\n<li>Press Enter<\/li>\n<li>Close the vba editor<\/li>\n<li>You are now editing the normal.dot or normal.dotm template.<\/li>\n<li>Make the appropriate changes and save.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<blockquote><p>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The next time you open a new document, it will have the defaults you saved in the template.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to open the Normal template in any version of Word To edit the normal template in any version of Word on any Windows operating system do the following: Open Word. Open the vba Editor by Pressing Alt+F11 together. At &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/?p=449\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YWFc-7f","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}