Save Changes To Normal Template Word 2010. The custom office templates is only with office 2013 (and later?) and turns out to not be where the normal template is usually stored anyway. There are more steps here than you might think necessary, but the idea.
Go to c:\users\ user name \appdata\roaming\microsoft\templates. Open the normal template (normal.dotm). In the advanced tab, click to select the prompt before saving normal template check box in the save group.