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I want to reset the normal.dotm template on a Mac with the latest version of MS Word (15.x.x).

I found instructions on doing this on Windows here.

What's the equivalent for Mac Word?

Rationale for doing this is to try to avoid the problem addressed in this question.

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Michael
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From this thread in Apple Exchange, the folder's location has changed for Office for Mac 2016. It's now located in

~/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/User Content/Templates

For Office for Mac 2011 or if you upgraded from this edition to 2016, browse to this location

~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Templates/My Templates

In Windows, I can delete the file normal.dotm to reset it. So you should try doing so in your Mac. You need first to close Word before deleting.

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For those who wind up here looking for how to find the Normal.dotm file on a Mac, (OSX 10.13.3 and Word v16.10, US English) I found it here:

cd ~/Library/Group\ Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/User\ Content.localized/Templates.localized/
rm Normal.dotm
rm normal.dotm.bak

And as the instructions here say, deleting or moving the corrupted Normal.dotm fixes the problem, by auto-creating a new template when Word next runs.

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