[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I'd never actually realized that the tabs are in alphabetical order in the
File New dialog (I'm not sure they always were), but I'm curious as to why
mine run in this order:

Front row: General, Publications, Clients, Correspondence, Envelopes, Jack,
Labels, Legal Pleadings
Back row: Microsoft Merge Templates, Microsoft Templates, Microsoft Wizards,
Other Documents, OTT, Rotary

Everything seems to be entirely alphabetical except for "Publications" being
oddly out of order. The only reason I can think of is perhaps that that is
the name of one of Word's built-in tabs.

Also, in case anyone is curious, the reason for the three "Microsoft" tabs
is that I saved copies of all the built-in templates so that I have them
available to assist users. The Legal Pleadings tab was created because Word
seemed to insist on having the Legal Pleading template there. Since I have
few enough tabs and not much trouble finding them, I haven't bothered to try
to combine or eliminate.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
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No. It is a hideous change from the way previous versions worked. At least
you could uninstall the supplied templates in previous versions and
reorganise the tabs by numbering them. In Word 2007, you have no control.

Another example of the Word Gestapo at work.

If it helps, you could put your templates as shortcuts on your desktops to
open up directly to a document created fro the template (but not that
convenient if Word is already open). You could also make commands and add
them to your QAT. But that may be hopeless if you have loads of custom
templates.

Personally, I only use 12 templates, so I have simply put them all in the
General Tab so at least I can get at them reasonably quickly. You can
order them in under the General tab by adding a number prefix.

--
Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"martinson" wrote in message
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I've posted this questions before, I'd love to somehow get rid the the
standard templates that are automatically installed with Word. So far
the
responses I've gotten indicate it's not possible... great... so does
anyone
know how I can push them to the end of the line so that my template tabs
appear first?? This is so annoying!!
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martinson portland