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Thanks to everyone who replied. I knew the solution had to be simple, but I
just didn't hit on the right combination (stand on your head, press the
letter N with your left big toe...). Dick Margulis sent me the solution:
-----Dick Margulis wrote:-----
1. Save it to your desktop as a .dot.
2. Double-click the .dot to open a new document based on the template.
3. Save the new document as a .doc with the desired filename.
4. Delete the .dot from your desktop.
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Fortunately for me, this isn't a virus. It was a simple matter of a file
extension being wrong for the file type. Because the file was manually
renamed from .dot to .doc at some point, Word still thought of it as a
template file. When I opened the file, the only option in the Save As window
was .dot, which wasn't what I wanted. By renaming the original file back to
.dot as it should have been in the first place, I was able to open a new
file and save that as a regular document.
Cheers!
Donna
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