NormalEmail.dot vs NormalEmail.dotm

[Handsome Prints]

Can someone tell me the difference between NormailEmail.dot and
NormalEmail.dotm and which versions of Word/Outlook support them?

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

A dotm template is a Word 2007 template that contains macros.
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Post by Handsome Prints
Can someone tell me the difference between NormailEmail.dot and
NormalEmail.dotm and which versions of Word/Outlook support them?

[Handsome Prints]

Thank you. So just to clarify, the template NormalEmail.dot was not used
before Outlook 2007, is that correct?

Post by Doug Robbins - Word MVP
A dotm template is a Word 2007 template that contains macros.
--
Hope this helps.
Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

Post by Handsome Prints
Can someone tell me the difference between NormailEmail.dot and
NormalEmail.dotm and which versions of Word/Outlook support them?

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

I don't know the answer to that as I have never had occasion to use either.
I do know however that the dotm suffix was introduced with Word 2007 to
denote a template that contains macros. To be consistent, I would have
thought that the equivalent template that did not contain macros would be
NormalEmail.dotx, which, if it is correct would suggest that NormalEmail.dot
was the equivalent for versions of Office before 2007, except that I
understand that Outlook 2007 did not undergo the same transition to the
Office 2007 file structures as the other Office programs such as Word and
Excel.
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Hope this helps.

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Post by Handsome Prints
Thank you. So just to clarify, the template NormalEmail.dot was not used
before Outlook 2007, is that correct?

Post by Doug Robbins - Word MVP
A dotm template is a Word 2007 template that contains macros.
--
Hope this helps.
Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

Post by Handsome Prints
Can someone tell me the difference between NormailEmail.dot and
NormalEmail.dotm and which versions of Word/Outlook support them?

[unknown]

Hi HP,

You may want to take this one up with the folks in the Outlook discussion group as well. I'm certainly not an Outlook expert. The
links are provided below.

Outlook 2007 has some of the most extensive changes in Office 2007 and also some of the higher count of 'huh?' features as well,
maybe because of that. :)

In prior versions there was Word as the email editor and then Outlook's own editor. Using Word as the email editor still left you
with a different set of editing choices in other parts of Outlook.

For Office 2007, Outlook replaced their previous editor with Word, sort of by including it through a DLL structure rather than
'calling' one app from the other.

If you have Outlook 2007 without Word 2007 you get an editor built from Word but without the new to Word 2007 feature set (i.e. no
Autotext/Quickpart, Office 2007 themes, some table features...)

If you an Office 2007 edition that does not include Word 2007 and add Outlook 2007 standalone, you get most, but not all of the
Word 2007 features added.

If you have Office 2007 that includes Word 2007 and Outlook 2007 you get new Word 2007 features, but Outlook chose not to implement
all of the Word features via UI access, although you can use VBA to get to more of them :)

If you have Office 2007 professional or enterprise environments you get a few more features related to information rights and
collaboration.

As part of the separation/integration, NormalEmail.dotm was added to store Styles and, if you have Word 2007,
QuickParts/Buildingblock/Autotext entries, so that users of the two apps wouldn't have entries stepping on each other.

Office 2007 has the ability to save files in the new XML based formats (.docM in the case of files with macros) as well as in Word
97-2003 legacy, binary format) so depending on your compatibility settings you could have a NormalEmail.dotm and/or a
NormalEmail.dot file

While Word 2007 retains the ability to send email out through your default email client (so some users can create 'in doc' emails
and others can only send as attachments) and it can 'lookup' email addresses (ability depending on what part of Word 2007 you're
working in and on the email client), Word isn't linked to Outlook 2007 for its editing tasks as it was in earlier versions so there
isn't so much a 'Word mail' feature, that based itself on the link to Outlook as there was in earlier versions.

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