Templates in Word are like blanks for documents. They can save formatting, styles, page layout, text, and so on. All this allows you to quickly create documents of various types. The default template used to create new documents is the template Normal.
If you make changes to the template Normal, Word will save these changes without additional notice. However, if you want Word to ask if you really need to save changes to the template Normal, use the special option in the settings. We’ll show you how to enable this option.
Note: The illustrations for this article are from Word 2013.
To access the settings, open the tab File (Queue).
In the menu on the left, click Parameters (Options).
Click on Additionally (Advanced) on the left side of the dialog box Word options (Word Options)
Check the box next to the option Request to save template Normal.dot (Prompt before saving Normal template) in the options group Preservation (Save).
Press OKto save changes and close the dialog Word options (Word Options).
From now on, when you close the application (not the document), Word will ask you to confirm whether you want to save the template Normal, as shown in the image at the beginning of this article.