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Date: Friday, August 28 2009, 4:51 am
Author: "Graham Mayor" <gmayor@REMOVETHISmvps.org>
Subject: Re: Word formatting changes when a document from a .dotx is saved down



Remove the \*Mergeformat switch from and update the filename fields, which
should suffice, but if necessary replace the switch with a \*Charformat
switch.

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Taya wrote:
> We currently have 12 computers running office 2007 and one running
> 2003.
>
> We have four master templates:
>
> Normal.dot
> Normal.dotm
> Normalmacros.dot (as a startup template for 2003 documents)
> Normalmacros.dotm (as a startup template for 2007 documents)
>
> The normalmacros templates hold our office macros and autotexts, so
> as to 'preserve' the normal templates from accidental destruction!
>
> In addition to the master templates we also run document templates,
> as .dot or .dotx. Each of those templates has a filepath field
> "FILENAME \* Lower \p \* MERGEFORMAT " in the footer which is
> formatted to arial 8 point itallic.
>
> Our issue is that when a document is opened from the .dotx template
> and saved down, and the fields are updated for printing, the field
> changes to arial 10.5 which is not a setting in the master templates
> or the document template.
>
> Does anyone know how this can be resolved?


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