Auto-formatting of Hyperlinks

[HelenT]

Word 2000
I am currently editing the normal.dot to use as our standard company template. I have encountered a problem with the Hyperlink style. In the standard normal.dot the Hyperlink style is Arial, in my normal.dot I want the Hyperlink style to be Century Gothic.

When I create a new document and change some text to the Hyperlink style it is Century Gothic which is fine. However if I type in something that Word thinks is a link (e.g.

http://www.tek-tips.com)

it auto-formats it to the Hyperlink style, this is fine except it is Arial! It is not using my normal.dot.

I think this is a bug in Word 2000 but does anyone now where it is getting this alternative Hyperlink style from and how I can stop it doing this and force it to use my Hyperlink style? Does Word have a back-up normal.dot somewhere? What would cause me to have two normal.dots in the 'Look In' combo box on Tools > Options > Auto Correct > Auto Text?

Thanks

Helen

 

[Hasit]

Mine seems to work OK. You ould try a couple of things:

1. Close Word, rename normal.dot and try again, or

2. Create a new template (do a "save as&quot, and then create a new shortcut for Word. Under "properties" for the new Word shortcut, click on the Shortcut tab and change the "Target" entry to read:

c:\<WordFolder>\winword.exe /t<templatename>

where <templatename> is the name of the new template you have created in step 2.