![]() Welcome to BleepingComputer, a free community where people like yourself come together to discuss and learn how to use their computers. Using the site is easy and fun. As a guest, you can browse and view the various discussions in the forums, but can not create a new topic or reply to an existing one unless you are logged in. Other benefits of registering an account are subscribing to topics and forums, creating a blog, and having no ads shown anywhere on the site. Or read our to learn how to use this site. Drivingmecrazy: That is certainly interesting, and I'll have to try that out. What the initial poster was asking about was why every document shows the exact same title when he mouses over the icons or whatever. ![]() ![]() This is a rather different scenario from what you have described. Methinks that he might be deleting the material from a document then writing new text in it. This would result in an unchanged title when mousing over it, but until we know how Richard93102 creates his new documents we won't be able to pinpoint the cause of his problem. Richard93102 awaiting your response to the questions asked earlier. Orange Blossom. Orange Blossom, Absolutely take your point about waiting for the original poster to respond and I think you're right about having a 'stock' document that is just partially changed. However, this also applies to creating a template from a Word document so I thought I'd throw it into the pot for thought's sake. I created a Word document but saved it as a template. Lo and behold the title in the template showed as the first few words of the document. Then I created a new document based on the template. No matter what I did to the document, the title stayed the same (even deleting all the words that came from the template made no difference). I cleared the title on the template and all documents were saved with no title. Word help talks about fields codes and other unnecessarily complicated stuff. Anyway, my conclusion is that whether based on normal.dot or a home-grown template the easiest way to get the correct title is to enter it on a document by document basis. Quite happy to be shot down! Edited by drivingmecrazy, 25 November 2006 - 12:49 PM. Richard, the original poster here - my sincere apologies for taking forever to come back! Many thanks for the advice. I tried drivingmecrazy's suggestion, and it worked! I've been using an old doc instead of starting afresh. So I'll try to remember to do it properly in future. But at least I can change the titles of existing docs (which all came up: 'Dear Sweetie-Pie.' And we're no longer together! Thus the desire to change the doc names!) It's all good! Many thanks again. Cheers, Richard •. To solve this completely obnoxious problem, follow my instructions that I have found to be very effective. Go to My Computer>C:Drive>Documents and Settings>[whatever your username is]>Application Data>Microsoft>Templates. ![]() Open 'Normal' (leave this folder open). From the document (in Word) go to: File>Properties. Under the 'title' field, you will see your 'dear xxxx' title that has been invading every single one of your Word documents. Delete the characters in this field. Save the document as 'Normal 2' (or whatever you want, I guess). Go back to the Templates folder and delete the file 'Normal'. Rename 'Normal 2' as 'Normal' (or just leave it if you like your custom name). And there you have it, folks. It took a fifteen-year-old to solve your simple computer problems. On the File tab, click Open. Go to C: Users user name AppData Roaming Microsoft Templates. Open the Normal template (Normal.dotm). Make any changes that you want to the fonts, margins, spacing, and other settings. You can use the same commands and features that you use to change a document — but remember.
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