Help!! Project locked, but I didn’t lock it? (Word 2002 (Office XP))

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Hi,

I don’t know why, but I can no longer access my Normal.dot file. When I go into VBA, it tells me my project is unviewable because it is locked.

But I haven’t locked it!!

What can I do? Where can I unlock it?

Thanks

Chris

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Can you File>Open the Normal.dot file in question?

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Yes, but I still get the same message when I try to access it in the VBA. Do you have any ideas?

Thanks

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Open it first. Then switch to the IDE and right click on Normal in the “Project Explorer”. If the project (Normal) is locked you’ll be prompted for a password. You obvioulsy need to know the password to open that project for editing.

Are you prompted for a password when you try the above?

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Hmmm… I’ve seen it wherey you need to open the template by File Open, and pointing at the .dot template. Otherwise the modules are locked out. I don’t know if this works for the normal.dot.

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Did you import the Normal.dot from Word 6 or 7?
If so, you may have at least one executable-only macro, which causes the entire project to be “locked”.

In this case, the only solution is to re-import the WordBasic, but remove any executable-only macros or replace them with the source version.

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