Microsoft KB Archive/29936

NORMAL.STY Is Read-Only

PSS ID Number: Q29936 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

2.x 3.x 4.00 5.00 5.50 6.00

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In Word versions 2.x and 3.x, the file NORMAL.STY will be read-only if Word is started from a directory that does not have a NORMAL.STY and there is a NORMAL.STY in the Word directory.

You cannot modify the NORMAL.STY in the Word directory unless you save it under a different name and use the DOS COPY command to copy it to the NORMAL.STY filename.

In these early versions of word, the NORMAL.STY file in the Word directory can be changed only if you start Word in the Word directory. This was changed in Word versions 4.00 and 5.00; the NORMAL.STY file can now be modified regardless of what directory it is in.

Word 5.50 operates in the same fashion as Word 5.00. NORMAL.STY can be modified in any directory.

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