When creating customizations or building blocks that you want to be available to all documents, it is usually best to to create and consciously save these customizations in your own named global templates (for Building Blocks see my: Building Blocks & AutoText) as these global templates are much less prone to corruption and virus infection than the Normal template.īecause of corruption and virus infection you may need to delete and let Word recover and clean Normal template from time to time. For actual document creation, you should create and use your own named regular templates (e.g., Letterhead.dotx, Fax.dotx, Invoice.dotm, etc.) and store customizations unique to those documents in their own named regular templates. For example, macros and ribbon customizations stored in a user's Normal.dotm file are available to all open documents (and any other open templates) and it is the attached template when you select File>New>Blank Document.īlank documents should generally be used for simple 'scratchpad' type of documents (e.g., a quick note, copy/paste/print some web content, etc.). dotm) is a special template because it regularly used both as a global template and regular template. This tips page only addresses Global template add-ins. dotm extensions and 'COM add-ins' or Microsoft/third party files with. The 'Global templates' or Word files with.

Note: In 'Word speak' there are two types of Add-Ins as well. dotm extension or a macro free template with a. Template types beginning with Word 2007 can be either a macro-enabled template with a.

Template types prior to Word 2007 have a.

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