Will check.

Regards and thanks again.

"Charles Kenyon" wrote in
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For more on the different kinds of templates, tabs on the file new dialog,
and locations of templates folders see
http://addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm.
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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
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See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Stuart" wrote in message
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Many thanks for the suggestions.
Some of these users are of the 'wilfull' variety ....as soon as you say
"Don't do this" they seem to shrug off their apparent apathy, and become
extremely interested in what you're saying g, like some users
everywhere I guess. They're already exploring the Macros option from the
menubar, but hopefully the VBE is scaring them off!
If one of them gets hold of a pw cracker......

I'm using Office2003 SBE over a Lan network, so I think I'll follow the
VBA route (as long as I can resolve those previously mentioned issues) to
best suit the following needs:
1. to more easily distribute and update via a Lan server
2. with Admin rights, I could place the template in a
hidden folder on the server (to better stop messing with
the template via Windows Explorer).
3. place a button on the Word menubar (making it the only way
to open the template?).
Do you approve of this approach? I have further 'master' documents to
similarly deploy.
Further, despite researching, I do not yet understand the differences
between a template, and Word's version of an addin (eg in Excel, I would
simply distribute this as an addin, having set the appropriate
protection, hidden sheets requirement, etc).

Regards and thanks.

"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
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Stuart wrote:
I have a template with just 2 Sections. The 1st section
is protected (and contains fields accessible to the user), the 2nd is
not protected.

When a user opens the template, they are actually opening a copy of
the template (as is true for a standard
document). If the user makes changes to the copy and saves it with a
different name, then the template is preserved unchanged. If however
they make changes but save it with the original template's name, then
the template will be overwritten.......I believe this to be correct?

Can I stop this without using code, please? (I wish to avoid the macro
warning/Certificates issue, if possible).

If not, then I'm going to have to use code...perhaps a test for the
'Save name' in the Document_BeforeClose Event
(if that event exists in the Word Object model).

Regards.

Hi Stuart,

Users are *not* supposed to "open" the template. They're supposed to
place
the template file in their Templates folder and use File New to create
new
documents *based* on the template. That avoids the whole messy
situation, as
the template is never altered (except in a few situations that are best
avoided, such as having "Add to template" checked in the Modify Style
dialog).

The best course is one of education -- if a user opens and alters the
template, beat him or her about the head and shoulders with stinging
nettles. :-)

If you can't change that behavior, the next choice is to set the
template
file as read-only or place it in a folder to which ordinary users are
given
read access but not write access.

If you need to use macro code, make sure the users all go to Tools
Macro
Security, click the Trusted Publishers tab, and check the box for "Trust
all
installed add-ins and templates". When you put the template containing
code
into the Templates folder (which is a trusted location), there won't be
any
warning or any requirement for a certificate. The macro can check
whether
ActiveDocument.Type is wdTypeTemplate and, if so, display a warning and
close the template. See
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...ea8b70f3a22342
for a sample macro.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org