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Global Template Question
Your understanding is fine as far as it goes. The missing piece is that,
although macros in a global template are available to all open documents, the template itself is not. In order to save new macros (or AutoText or toolbars) to the global template, you have to have the template itself open for editing. You may find more useful information in the article at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...latesStore.htm Some other articles that may be helpful to you in transition from WP: How Word differs from WordPerfect http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/WordVsWordPerfect.htm Some Tips and “Gotchas” for those who are new to Word Especially if migrating from WordPerfect http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/TipsAndGotchas.htm Is There Life After “Reveal Codes”? http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/RevealCodes.htm WordPerfect to Word converters (and why none of them are perfect) http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/Wo...Converters.htm -- 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. "Deb McLellan" wrote in message ... I am a WP user making the transition to Word (currently Word XP), and am attempting to understand global templates. I create a global template and give it a name - create macros to be held in that template with that template open, and then save it to the startup folder. With that template open, when I select Macro|Record New Macro, the choices for saving the macros are "All Documents (Normal.dot)" and "Documents based on MacroHolder.dot". Neither option seems to give me what I want. I thought there should be a way to save them to the template itself. I can create the macros fine and they work on my computer - but when I load them to the server I have problems accessing the macros from other workstations - even though I think I have pointed those workstations to the correct startup and workgroup folders. I appreciate the rambling nature of the email and aplogize for that, but I've been going around in circles between the manual I have (very basic) and the various help sites I have accessed. I'm happy to figure it out for myself, but I think I'm missing some basic understanding of something and I don't know how better to ask the question at this point. Thanks for any help. Deb |
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