Re: [HATT] Latest WOPR - Word template mistake

[Goober Writer <gooberwriter -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Why customize Normal.dot? Why not use a custom-named
*.dot instead? Just curious.

--- Jo Francis Byrd <jbyrd -at- byrdwrites -dot- com> wrote:
> 
> I can verify this. Last contract, the client's doc
> template had a LOT of
> specialized macros - but they only worked if I had
> the client's Normal.dot
> template.
> 
> Since my own Normal.dot has a lot of personal
> customizations and I didn't
> wish to lose them, I solved the problem by renaming
> my Normal.dot and used
> theirs instead for the duration of the contract.
> Once I finished, I renamed
> the client's Normal.dot to Client Name Normal.dot
> and renamed mine back to
> Normal.dot.
> 
> Clunky, but it worked, and I didn't have to resort
> to bad language or hair
> pulling.

=====
Goober Writer
(because life is too short to be inept)

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