Not to mention that Word will show a much more useful preview of *documents*
in the Preview view in File Open if they are saved *without* a preview
picture.

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"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
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On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 11:31:04 -0800, jay
wrote:

I designed a letterhead for my company and placed it in the template
folder
as a .dot. When I use Word 2003 to access that template, there is no
preview. I also downloaded several budget templaces from the Microsoft
web
page and they do not preview either. How do I get the templates to
preview?

In the File Properties dialog, check the box at the bottom for "Save
preview picture".

The drawback of this is that the preview picture takes up extra space
in the template file. If the first page of the template contains a
graphic, that can be a significant amount. Not only that, but every
document based on the template defaults to having the option turned on
so, unless you remember to turn it off, every document is also bloated
with a preview picture. Unless the tiny picture in the preview pane is
enough to distinguish one document from another (which it rarely is),
this is a waste of disk space and processor power. You'd be better off
designing a logical system of folders and file names that would let
you pinpoint the documents and templates you want.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
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