Join Gini von Courter for an in-depth discussion in this video Creating a backup of the Normal template, part of Word 2013: Templates in Depth.
- Normal template or normal.dotm is the most important…of all the templates in Microsoft Word.…It's a global template that serves as the basis…of most of the documents that we create.…But more importantly for our purposes,…normal is where we save all kinds of settings.…All different types of user customizations.…And the more you tweak Word to work…in a particular fashion, the more content…you're putting into your normal template.…For example, you'll find that changes that you make…to any of the built in styles are in normal.dotm…so if you modify heading one, that's where it gets saved.…
Any new styles that you create,…they're in normal.dotm as well.…And default settings, if you change your font,…if you choose a particular spacing set,…if you change to a different page design,…if you decide that your normative orientation…is going to be landscape rather than portrait.…All of this and more is saved in the normal.dotm template.…Any macros you write unless you put them…in a particular document or a particular template…
Author
Gini von Courter
Released
12/23/2014- Recall how many global templates are in Microsoft Word.
- Name the folder that a template file is automatically saved in.
- Identify the command that will allow you to apply a specific theme and font style to all new blank documents.
- Recall the qualities of read privileges in Word 2013.
- Name what is opened when opening a template from the SharePoint library.
- List the steps that will allow you to insert the author’s name from the document properties into the template.
Skill Level Intermediate
Duration
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Introduction
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Welcome1m
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1. Creating a New Document from a Template
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What is a template?5m 1s
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Customizing a template2m 48s
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Saving a template3m 14s
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2. Creating a New Template
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Saving a style set template3m 25s
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Restricting editing to areas5m 13s
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3. Sharing and Distributing Templates
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Template-sharing strategies3m 50s
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4. Advanced Features and Templates
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Using building blocks6m 20s
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Using field codes2m 46s
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Using Word add-ins6m 19s
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Conclusion
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Next steps2m 7s
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