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What is "normal.dotm"?

 

On Apr 5, 2018, at 6:12 AM, Victoria <dr.vcaesar@...> wrote:

Nontheless I found out that by using normal.dotm I can get these forms to stay as originally formatted, even if I copy the text into an email.
What is ¡°normal.dotm¡±?

Sharon
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Sharon Villines, Washington DC
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Sharon,

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You asked: What is ¡°normal.dotm¡±?

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I don?t know if it has the same name in English speaking countries. And I hope I can translate and express this thing properly for I am not a technical expert, but I?ll try.

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Normal.dotm is my basic document template which connects to all my word documents. M stands for "macro". Usually I formate this basic template normal.dot once, as far as line pitch, page distance, font and font size and colours are concerned. And every time I open an empty word page and start to write in it, my text will appear exactly as I have formatted my normal.dotm. This still doesn?t mean though, that if you receive a document from me, it will show on your screen exactly as it does on mine. The way you see it depend on your normal.dot and how you formatted it. I hope I could get this across understandably¡­

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Victoria

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On 04/05/2018 02:54 PM, Sharon Villines wrote:
What is ¡°normal.dotm¡±?
It is a file format for Master Document Templates for Microsoft Word.

jonathon
 

On Apr 5, 2018, at 1:58 PM, Victoria <dr.vcaesar@...> wrote:

Normal.dotm is my basic document template which connects to all my word documents.
Ah. I forgot about the templates. What did you change on the template to avoid getting the double and triple blank lines when pasting messages into email?

I¡¯m not sure I can get people to modify a template but perhaps if I know what you did, I can figure out alternative instructions. We ask people to paste in proposals and minutes because not everyone can or will open attachments. Word¡¯s formatting makes screens and screens of text that is hard to follow.

Sharon
Arno Martens
 

On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 04:38 am, Sharon Villines wrote:
Ah. I forgot about the templates.
If it is eMail only, how about using plain TXT only.

I¡¯m not sure I can get people to modify a template
There is nothing to modify providing there is not more than item per line.
Arno
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You could try notepad or wordpad to see how they look in your messages. ?I have a very old MS Word so maybe they don't even offer them any more?? ?Anyway, I use notepad to strip all the formatting from Word documents when I need to import ?them into other programs.
Arno Martens
 

Yes, they bot exist in W10 but, why not use an attachment instead of using TXT only.
 

Yes, they bot exist in W10 but, why not use an attachment instead of using TXT only.
Arno,
I am not using txt. And I explained in this subject already, why we do not want attachments.
Victoria

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On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 09:55 am, Victoria wrote:
Yes, they bot exist in W10 but, why not use an attachment instead of using
TXT only.
Arno,
I am not using txt. And I explained in this subject already, why we do not
want attachments.
Victoria
At Settings > Message Formatting put a check mark at Plain Text Only.

Now your members can enter their information without affecting the layout if you put each item on a new line, with space in between and ask everyone to type replies into the blank lines.
Result, Headers the way you want them and replies beneath.
Clarity without attachments.

Shal, J, Bruce or the other seniority posters would know if incoming messages from HTML only poster are turned to TXT at GIO or if the setting only applies to the web.
Most eMail systems set for HTML are sending mail out in plain text simultaneously.

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