Macro inserted into the normal template - not working and changing new documents

Question

For some reason my Word 2016 has started defaulting to opening documents in multi-page view. Google research has told me to insert a macro in the Normal.dotm template and provided me with the necessary code and how to locate the template.

Using the procedure I was given, I did this:

1. Create a new blank document
2. Copy and paste the macro text into it
3. SelectFile>**Open.**Use the Browse button to launch a file-explorer window,
4. Open C:\Users[username]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates.
5. Choose the  Normal.dotm option.
6. Make any formatting changes in the interface, the same way as in any Word document.

 7. Save the document.

Everything was fine up to step 5. however, instead of seeing the code in the file, I got a blank page.

So, I pasted in the macro code and saved the document. (Pretty obvious now what a Big Mistake!)

Closed Word and opened it again.

Now, existing files still open displaying multi-page. New files open displaying the macro and if I delete the macro text and fill the document past the end of page 1, page 2 opens next to page 1.

Is there anything I can do to fix this apart from reinstalling Office 2016?

Answer 1

Thanks for that info, Charles