change your normal document template view.
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The first thing you have to do is find Normal.dot. The exact location should be specified on the File Locations tab of Tools | Options (the path given for [FONT=Times New Roman, Times-Roman]“[/FONT]User Templates[FONT=Times New Roman, Times-Roman]”[/FONT]), but you can also use Windows Find to locate the file.
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Once you have found Normal.dot, navigate to it using the File | Open dialog in Word; click on the file and open it. Alternatively, you can right-click on it in Windows Explorer and select Open. What you can't do is double-click on the file in Windows Explorer, because that creates a new document based on the template, instead of opening the template. Similarly, if you right-click on the template icon in the File | New dialog and choose Open, you are actually opening a copy of the template that can be saved only as a new template. Neither of these techniques will do what you want.
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When you have the template open for editing, change the view and/or zoom to the desired one.
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In Word 97 and above, you then need to press Space followed by Backspace, or make some similar change, in order to make Word recognise that the file has been changed.
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Finally, save.
