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Template preview
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? |
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Template preview
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. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... 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. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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