It got VERY frustrating for me trying every other thing imaginable.At the end of a letterhead design project, it’s pretty common to hear your client say: “I want this as an editable letterhead template in Microsoft Word.” They usually don’t own or know how to use advanced graphics-editing programs like Adobe Illustrator, InDesign or Photoshop, and it simply doesn’t make sense for them to purchase those expensive programs. Rename your new normal1.dotm to normal.dotm.Īfter these gyrations, when I open a new Word 2010 document, it opens in the correct format with single spacing and my Times New Roman 12 pt. Rename your original normal.dotm file to normalbackup.dotm, or something else.Ħ. You will have to name it normal1.dotm because you cannot save over an open file.ĥ. Modify your settings, font, and paragraph in the regular way.Ĥ. Open the normal.dotm file in word by double clicking.ģ. (There are two folders that have a templates subfolder, you must use the “roaming” folder)Ģ. For me, it was in the c:\users\mike\appdata\roaming\microsoft\templates folder. It’s not difficult, but I had to do it in this order.ġ. I located the normal.dotm file, modified the settings manually in that file, and saved it. OK, I tried all the workarounds, and none of them worked. Hope this helps all you others out there struggling with the same “Not saving settings as default no matter how many times you try” problem like I was. Reopened Word, and VIOLA!! NO MORE DOUBLE SPACING!! Thank you for the hint Bluehole. After doing that, I opened up the file location again: C:\users\appdata\roaming\microsoft\templates and then deleted the original Normal.dotm file, and then renamed my Normal1.dotm file to “Normal.dotm” and then closed. It said I couldn’t save as the same name as the original, so I saved it as Normal1.dotm. Once it was the way I wanted it, I saved the document in the same file location as the template was located.
After opening it, I changed the formatting and settings in the “Styles” formatting to what I wanted. After I read your comment, I closed down Word, went to C:\users\appdata\roaming\microsoft\templates and opened up the document called Normal.dotm. I have Microsoft Word 2010, and have tried every single tutorial out there on how to fix this ugly mess of double or 1.5 spacing.
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