Hi David:
Daiya's right: the template will have no effect upon what happens in the
help topics, only the style names. The Help system will compile in a CSS
which will replace the formatting in your template.
If you place your template in a network location visible to all users, and
THEN attach your documents to it, and set "Automatically update" then it
will stay stuck while the template remains visible to the users.
To enure this works, attach the template using the UNC Pathname to the
template (\\ServerName\filepath\folder\help.dotx)
Do NOT use Automatically update styles if your help topics contain any list
numbering. If they do, the update will break the numbering each time you
open the topic.
Hope this helps
On 18/1/07 2:07 AM, in article
, "DavidS"
wrote:
I have a Word 2007 template, for some help files, that is likely to be
tweaked. A number of authors are using the tempalte and creating
hundreds of small help documents. I want to be able to:
1 - Send out an update of the template to the authors and have all of
their documents reflect the changes in the template next time they are
opened.
2 - Receive the files back from the authors and have them update
against the office master version of the template as they are opened.
I can achieve (1) by displaying the developer tab and in the Templates
group, clicking Document Template, then setting the Automatically
update document styles option. However, I cannot get this to default to
being checked. Inevitably users will forget to check this as they
create new documents.
The problem achieving (2) is that the location of the templates folder
is beyond my control on the authors' machines, and the template
location stored seems to be an explicit path
(C:\windows\user\...\help.dotx). Is there any way of replacing this
with a symbolic path (%workgrouptemplates%\help.dotx)???
What other hints have people got for keeping documents linked to
templates in a nice, neat fashion?
Thanks,
David
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