I was speaking theoretically and (obviously) without empirical knowledge. To
begin with, I don't often create templates. Moreover, I never modify the
formatting of Normal.dot (I customize it with toolbar buttons and AutoText
and macros and the like, but I don't change the font, page layout, style
definitions, etc.) because I want to keep it pristine as a reference for the
out-of-the-box style definitions.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
"Shauna Kelly" wrote in message
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Hi Suzanne, Terry
I have to say that this is not my experience. If I set Normal style in
Normal.dot to be, say, 8pt Arial Magenta, and if (Word 2003 here), in the
Templates dialog, I select the Template radio button and create a new
Template, then Word will create my new template with the out-of-the-box
settings and Normal style will be TNR 12. I conclude that, in this case,
Word is not creating my new template on normal.dot, but is instead
building it straight from its default settings stored in the binary.
On the other hand, if I create a new document (with my 8pt Arial Magenta)
and save it as a template, then I get a template with 8pt Arial Magenta
for Normal style.
Is that not what you see?
Shauna
Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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In the New (or, in recent editions, Templates) dialog, select Blank
Document and the radio button for Template rather than Document. As Terry
points out, all templates are based on *something,* but basing a template
on Normal.dot (which you do if you select Blank Document) is as close as
you can get to creating one "from scratch."
As Terry mentions, you can also create a template based on a document by
saving the document as a template. There are a few differences between
creating a template "from scratch" (in the New/Templates dialog) and
saving a document as a template. The primary one is that anything that
can be stored only in a template (and not in a document) will be included
when you create a template from scratch. What this pretty much boils down
to these days is AutoText entries, with the Catch-22 that AutoText
entries in Normal.dot are *not* copied into a new template (if they were,
they would be duplicated on your AutoText menus). But if you have saved
AutoText entries in a specific document template and create a new
template based on that one, you will get them in the new template.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
"sheana" wrote in message
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The book I have demontrates how to create a template from an existing
one,
but how do you create one from scratch?