Also note that the template file cannot be deleted or modified if Microsoft Word has already opened a document. So you can simply restore the template file if something went wrong. A change to normal. Normal.dotm is the foundation for many Word documents. Note: You must copy the Normal.dotm template file to another location. It’s all in Normal.dotm (before Word 2007 it was normal.dot). Word will automatically recreate the Normal.dotm template file in its original default condition next time you open the Microsoft Word. The quickest way to reset all the changes you have made to the Normal template is to delete the Normal.dotm template file. It will displays the Open dialog box, enter the following address in File name: field and click Open: C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates\Normal.dotm Open Normal.dotm template file On the File tab, click Open and choose Browse. To solve this problem you must open the Normal.dotm template file, delete the unnecessary text, settings and customizations, and save the template. If you have made changes to the Normal.dotm template, you will be asked.
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Usually it’s hard to get text into Normal.dotm unintentionally, but it seems to happen sometimes mistakenly. dotm every time your quit Word, you may want to check your settings in the Word options.
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This all happened because, you’ve somehow saved your document into Normal.dotm, the global template that’s always open when Word is running. The same thing happens when you open a new “Blank document”, the document you get isn’t blank at all. You have to select the text and delete it before you can start working on a new document. When you start Microsoft Word, you get a document that already contains text which you wrote few days ago.