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I have created a set of .dot templates for use by numerous users. I would
like to know where to install these and how to set up all users' machines to access the templates. I would like to make their use of the templates as easy as possible. By this I mean: is it possible to set up the user's computer so that when he or she creates a new document, only these templates are available for use? Many thanks |
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Hi jonny
First, the easy question: no, you can't restrict a user to a specific set of templates, not least because a user could create their own template. When you do File New and, in Word 2003 click "on my computer", the templates you see listed are an amalgamation of: - all templates in the folder listed at Tools Options File Locations User templates - all templates in the folder listed at Tools Options File Locations Workgroup templates - so-called built-in templates (all those elegant faxes and contemporary resumes). You can get rid of the built-in templates only by uninstalling them using the Control Panel and Add/Remove Programs. Follow the instructions carefully, choose the advanced customization option, and then under Word find the Wizards and Templates item. Uninstall what you don't need. Don't be too hasty to remove the Wizards unless users really should not use them. The Calendar Wizard, for example, is quite useful. But all those contemporary faxes can go! There are two (and a half) basic ways to make your templates available: Option 1: create a folder on a shared drive that everyone can see. Point everyone's Workgroup Templates folder to that location. Put the templates in that location and make them read-only. Big advantage: only one copy of every file. Big disadvantages: You can't edit a template if anyone has open a document based on the template. And the templates won't be available if users are off-line on their laptops at Starbucks or if the network goes down. Option 2: write a login script to download the templates to each user's individual machine every time they log on to the network. Good for major rollouts for hundreds of users. Big advantage: You can edit the templates even when users have a document based on the template open on their machine. Works for laptops and other off-line use. Option 2A: give everyone a 'home' folder on the network. Create a folder there and use a login script to copy the templates to that folder. Point the user's Workgroup Templates (or even User Templates) folder to that location. Big advantage: Allows for roaming on different machines within the office if different groups of users have different groups of templates available to them. Allows for editing templates while users are using them. Big disadvantage: doesn't work for laptops unconnected to the network or if the network goes down. See more at Distributing macros to other users http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...buteMacros.htm Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "jonny" wrote in message ... I have created a set of .dot templates for use by numerous users. I would like to know where to install these and how to set up all users' machines to access the templates. I would like to make their use of the templates as easy as possible. By this I mean: is it possible to set up the user's computer so that when he or she creates a new document, only these templates are available for use? Many thanks |
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You can put the templates in a folder on a server that all users can
access, and tell everyone to go to Tools Options File Locations and point their Workgroup Templates location to that folder. That will make the templates from that folder available in the File Open dialog. You can remove all of the Microsoft-supplied templates (except Normal.dot, which is used to create the "new blank document") by going into the Office setup program from Add/Remove Programs, choosing Custom setup, and deselecting the templates. Please don't try to limit users to only the templates you supply, though. No one likes a tinpot dictator. Just tell them that certain kinds of documents are required to be based on the company templates, and they're expected to comply. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 04:32:01 -0700, jonny wrote: I have created a set of .dot templates for use by numerous users. I would like to know where to install these and how to set up all users' machines to access the templates. I would like to make their use of the templates as easy as possible. By this I mean: is it possible to set up the user's computer so that when he or she creates a new document, only these templates are available for use? Many thanks |
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Thanks very much Shauna and Jay.
I have installed the templates into a shared folder and set up my file locations to point to it. Some users will need to use these templates offline - however, I have no knowledge of login scripts. I have therefore set up the shared templates folder to be available offline on my computer and others with this requirement. Is this a reasonable workaround? Finally, is there any way of at least stopping ctrl+n reverting to the default normal.dot and instead going to the templates dialogue? Otherwise I am sure that some users will end up just doing that instead of searching out the template they ought to use. Thanks again. jonny "Shauna Kelly" wrote: Hi jonny First, the easy question: no, you can't restrict a user to a specific set of templates, not least because a user could create their own template. When you do File New and, in Word 2003 click "on my computer", the templates you see listed are an amalgamation of: - all templates in the folder listed at Tools Options File Locations User templates - all templates in the folder listed at Tools Options File Locations Workgroup templates - so-called built-in templates (all those elegant faxes and contemporary resumes). You can get rid of the built-in templates only by uninstalling them using the Control Panel and Add/Remove Programs. Follow the instructions carefully, choose the advanced customization option, and then under Word find the Wizards and Templates item. Uninstall what you don't need. Don't be too hasty to remove the Wizards unless users really should not use them. The Calendar Wizard, for example, is quite useful. But all those contemporary faxes can go! There are two (and a half) basic ways to make your templates available: Option 1: create a folder on a shared drive that everyone can see. Point everyone's Workgroup Templates folder to that location. Put the templates in that location and make them read-only. Big advantage: only one copy of every file. Big disadvantages: You can't edit a template if anyone has open a document based on the template. And the templates won't be available if users are off-line on their laptops at Starbucks or if the network goes down. Option 2: write a login script to download the templates to each user's individual machine every time they log on to the network. Good for major rollouts for hundreds of users. Big advantage: You can edit the templates even when users have a document based on the template open on their machine. Works for laptops and other off-line use. Option 2A: give everyone a 'home' folder on the network. Create a folder there and use a login script to copy the templates to that folder. Point the user's Workgroup Templates (or even User Templates) folder to that location. Big advantage: Allows for roaming on different machines within the office if different groups of users have different groups of templates available to them. Allows for editing templates while users are using them. Big disadvantage: doesn't work for laptops unconnected to the network or if the network goes down. See more at Distributing macros to other users http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...buteMacros.htm Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "jonny" wrote in message ... I have created a set of .dot templates for use by numerous users. I would like to know where to install these and how to set up all users' machines to access the templates. I would like to make their use of the templates as easy as possible. By this I mean: is it possible to set up the user's computer so that when he or she creates a new document, only these templates are available for use? Many thanks |
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You'd need to reassign the Ctrl+N shortcut to FileNewDialog instead of
FileNewDefault. -- 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. "jonny" wrote in message ... Thanks very much Shauna and Jay. I have installed the templates into a shared folder and set up my file locations to point to it. Some users will need to use these templates offline - however, I have no knowledge of login scripts. I have therefore set up the shared templates folder to be available offline on my computer and others with this requirement. Is this a reasonable workaround? Finally, is there any way of at least stopping ctrl+n reverting to the default normal.dot and instead going to the templates dialogue? Otherwise I am sure that some users will end up just doing that instead of searching out the template they ought to use. Thanks again. jonny "Shauna Kelly" wrote: Hi jonny First, the easy question: no, you can't restrict a user to a specific set of templates, not least because a user could create their own template. When you do File New and, in Word 2003 click "on my computer", the templates you see listed are an amalgamation of: - all templates in the folder listed at Tools Options File Locations User templates - all templates in the folder listed at Tools Options File Locations Workgroup templates - so-called built-in templates (all those elegant faxes and contemporary resumes). You can get rid of the built-in templates only by uninstalling them using the Control Panel and Add/Remove Programs. Follow the instructions carefully, choose the advanced customization option, and then under Word find the Wizards and Templates item. Uninstall what you don't need. Don't be too hasty to remove the Wizards unless users really should not use them. The Calendar Wizard, for example, is quite useful. But all those contemporary faxes can go! There are two (and a half) basic ways to make your templates available: Option 1: create a folder on a shared drive that everyone can see. Point everyone's Workgroup Templates folder to that location. Put the templates in that location and make them read-only. Big advantage: only one copy of every file. Big disadvantages: You can't edit a template if anyone has open a document based on the template. And the templates won't be available if users are off-line on their laptops at Starbucks or if the network goes down. Option 2: write a login script to download the templates to each user's individual machine every time they log on to the network. Good for major rollouts for hundreds of users. Big advantage: You can edit the templates even when users have a document based on the template open on their machine. Works for laptops and other off-line use. Option 2A: give everyone a 'home' folder on the network. Create a folder there and use a login script to copy the templates to that folder. Point the user's Workgroup Templates (or even User Templates) folder to that location. Big advantage: Allows for roaming on different machines within the office if different groups of users have different groups of templates available to them. Allows for editing templates while users are using them. Big disadvantage: doesn't work for laptops unconnected to the network or if the network goes down. See more at Distributing macros to other users http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...buteMacros.htm Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "jonny" wrote in message ... I have created a set of .dot templates for use by numerous users. I would like to know where to install these and how to set up all users' machines to access the templates. I would like to make their use of the templates as easy as possible. By this I mean: is it possible to set up the user's computer so that when he or she creates a new document, only these templates are available for use? Many thanks |
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file. Big disadvantages: You can't edit a template if anyone has open a
document based on the template. And the templates won't be available if Is this perhaps true only if the document is set to "Automatically update document styles?" I am able to edit templates while documents based on them are open. You wouldn't think this would be possible, since Word does create a ~$ owner file for the template when a document based on it is open, but I get no "in use" message when I open the template, and changes are saved. The only thing I do notice is that the owner file isn't deleted when I close both document and template. -- 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. "Shauna Kelly" wrote in message ... Hi jonny First, the easy question: no, you can't restrict a user to a specific set of templates, not least because a user could create their own template. When you do File New and, in Word 2003 click "on my computer", the templates you see listed are an amalgamation of: - all templates in the folder listed at Tools Options File Locations User templates - all templates in the folder listed at Tools Options File Locations Workgroup templates - so-called built-in templates (all those elegant faxes and contemporary resumes). You can get rid of the built-in templates only by uninstalling them using the Control Panel and Add/Remove Programs. Follow the instructions carefully, choose the advanced customization option, and then under Word find the Wizards and Templates item. Uninstall what you don't need. Don't be too hasty to remove the Wizards unless users really should not use them. The Calendar Wizard, for example, is quite useful. But all those contemporary faxes can go! There are two (and a half) basic ways to make your templates available: Option 1: create a folder on a shared drive that everyone can see. Point everyone's Workgroup Templates folder to that location. Put the templates in that location and make them read-only. Big advantage: only one copy of every file. Big disadvantages: You can't edit a template if anyone has open a document based on the template. And the templates won't be available if users are off-line on their laptops at Starbucks or if the network goes down. Option 2: write a login script to download the templates to each user's individual machine every time they log on to the network. Good for major rollouts for hundreds of users. Big advantage: You can edit the templates even when users have a document based on the template open on their machine. Works for laptops and other off-line use. Option 2A: give everyone a 'home' folder on the network. Create a folder there and use a login script to copy the templates to that folder. Point the user's Workgroup Templates (or even User Templates) folder to that location. Big advantage: Allows for roaming on different machines within the office if different groups of users have different groups of templates available to them. Allows for editing templates while users are using them. Big disadvantage: doesn't work for laptops unconnected to the network or if the network goes down. See more at Distributing macros to other users http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...buteMacros.htm Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "jonny" wrote in message ... I have created a set of .dot templates for use by numerous users. I would like to know where to install these and how to set up all users' machines to access the templates. I would like to make their use of the templates as easy as possible. By this I mean: is it possible to set up the user's computer so that when he or she creates a new document, only these templates are available for use? Many thanks |
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Hi Jay
A lot of your advice on this has got me by over the last few months, Thanks One more question please. I have managed to remove all the default Office templates except those for Access. We run Office Pro 2003 but I cant find Wizards & Templates under setup customise etc. Ive tried deleting out of 1033 without luck. My new office doc dialog box is as I want it except for the databases tab. Any ideas how to get rid of these templates? Thanks Sharpe "Jay Freedman" wrote: You can put the templates in a folder on a server that all users can access, and tell everyone to go to Tools Options File Locations and point their Workgroup Templates location to that folder. That will make the templates from that folder available in the File Open dialog. You can remove all of the Microsoft-supplied templates (except Normal.dot, which is used to create the "new blank document") by going into the Office setup program from Add/Remove Programs, choosing Custom setup, and deselecting the templates. Please don't try to limit users to only the templates you supply, though. No one likes a tinpot dictator. Just tell them that certain kinds of documents are required to be based on the company templates, and they're expected to comply. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 04:32:01 -0700, jonny wrote: I have created a set of .dot templates for use by numerous users. I would like to know where to install these and how to set up all users' machines to access the templates. I would like to make their use of the templates as easy as possible. By this I mean: is it possible to set up the user's computer so that when he or she creates a new document, only these templates are available for use? Many thanks |
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I have a full installation here of Office 2003, including Access, and
I don't have any Databases tab in my File New dialog. I don't think that's one of the built-in ones. Have you looked in the User Templates folder to see if there's a Databases subfolder there? Maybe it was installed by some other program? -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:43:01 -0800, Sharpe wrote: Hi Jay A lot of your advice on this has got me by over the last few months, Thanks One more question please. I have managed to remove all the default Office templates except those for Access. We run Office Pro 2003 but I cant find Wizards & Templates under setup customise etc. Ive tried deleting out of 1033 without luck. My new office doc dialog box is as I want it except for the databases tab. Any ideas how to get rid of these templates? Thanks Sharpe "Jay Freedman" wrote: You can put the templates in a folder on a server that all users can access, and tell everyone to go to Tools Options File Locations and point their Workgroup Templates location to that folder. That will make the templates from that folder available in the File Open dialog. You can remove all of the Microsoft-supplied templates (except Normal.dot, which is used to create the "new blank document") by going into the Office setup program from Add/Remove Programs, choosing Custom setup, and deselecting the templates. Please don't try to limit users to only the templates you supply, though. No one likes a tinpot dictator. Just tell them that certain kinds of documents are required to be based on the company templates, and they're expected to comply. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 04:32:01 -0700, jonny wrote: I have created a set of .dot templates for use by numerous users. I would like to know where to install these and how to set up all users' machines to access the templates. I would like to make their use of the templates as easy as possible. By this I mean: is it possible to set up the user's computer so that when he or she creates a new document, only these templates are available for use? Many thanks |
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Hi again
The files listed on the databases tab were located in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033. I deleted them as per someone elses reply in this forum but the dialog still has the database templates tab. The only difference being that now if I select one of the templates from the dialog tab it asks for the Microsoft Office Pro CD etc to re-install them. So I assumed I had deleted them from the right place. I have seen these files there for a few years now with different versions of office etc. Some examples: Asset Tracker, Ledger, Time and Billing, there's 10 files all up. I did a search on C and our server for any of these files and could not find copies anywhere. Also double checked the user and workgroup template locations, nothing there. Uninstalled the sample databases etc and that just got rid of Northwind. Its got me stumped and our IT boys are giving me strange looks. Ta Sharpe "Jay Freedman" wrote: I have a full installation here of Office 2003, including Access, and I don't have any Databases tab in my File New dialog. I don't think that's one of the built-in ones. Have you looked in the User Templates folder to see if there's a Databases subfolder there? Maybe it was installed by some other program? -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:43:01 -0800, Sharpe wrote: Hi Jay A lot of your advice on this has got me by over the last few months, Thanks One more question please. I have managed to remove all the default Office templates except those for Access. We run Office Pro 2003 but I cant find Wizards & Templates under setup customise etc. Ive tried deleting out of 1033 without luck. My new office doc dialog box is as I want it except for the databases tab. Any ideas how to get rid of these templates? Thanks Sharpe "Jay Freedman" wrote: You can put the templates in a folder on a server that all users can access, and tell everyone to go to Tools Options File Locations and point their Workgroup Templates location to that folder. That will make the templates from that folder available in the File Open dialog. You can remove all of the Microsoft-supplied templates (except Normal.dot, which is used to create the "new blank document") by going into the Office setup program from Add/Remove Programs, choosing Custom setup, and deselecting the templates. Please don't try to limit users to only the templates you supply, though. No one likes a tinpot dictator. Just tell them that certain kinds of documents are required to be based on the company templates, and they're expected to comply. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 04:32:01 -0700, jonny wrote: I have created a set of .dot templates for use by numerous users. I would like to know where to install these and how to set up all users' machines to access the templates. I would like to make their use of the templates as easy as possible. By this I mean: is it possible to set up the user's computer so that when he or she creates a new document, only these templates are available for use? Many thanks |
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I did see those ten files in the Templates\1033 folder when I
installed the "Typical Wizards" feature group under Access in Add/Remove Programs, and they were removed when I set that group to "Run on first use". But the files in question were Access wizards with extensions of .mdz, not the Word wizard extension of .wiz. They didn't show up in Word's dialog, which still didn't have a Database tab. So something strange is going on in your installation... -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:33:02 -0800, Sharpe wrote: Hi again The files listed on the databases tab were located in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033. I deleted them as per someone elses reply in this forum but the dialog still has the database templates tab. The only difference being that now if I select one of the templates from the dialog tab it asks for the Microsoft Office Pro CD etc to re-install them. So I assumed I had deleted them from the right place. I have seen these files there for a few years now with different versions of office etc. Some examples: Asset Tracker, Ledger, Time and Billing, there's 10 files all up. I did a search on C and our server for any of these files and could not find copies anywhere. Also double checked the user and workgroup template locations, nothing there. Uninstalled the sample databases etc and that just got rid of Northwind. Its got me stumped and our IT boys are giving me strange looks. Ta Sharpe "Jay Freedman" wrote: I have a full installation here of Office 2003, including Access, and I don't have any Databases tab in my File New dialog. I don't think that's one of the built-in ones. Have you looked in the User Templates folder to see if there's a Databases subfolder there? Maybe it was installed by some other program? -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:43:01 -0800, Sharpe wrote: Hi Jay A lot of your advice on this has got me by over the last few months, Thanks One more question please. I have managed to remove all the default Office templates except those for Access. We run Office Pro 2003 but I cant find Wizards & Templates under setup customise etc. Ive tried deleting out of 1033 without luck. My new office doc dialog box is as I want it except for the databases tab. Any ideas how to get rid of these templates? Thanks Sharpe "Jay Freedman" wrote: You can put the templates in a folder on a server that all users can access, and tell everyone to go to Tools Options File Locations and point their Workgroup Templates location to that folder. That will make the templates from that folder available in the File Open dialog. You can remove all of the Microsoft-supplied templates (except Normal.dot, which is used to create the "new blank document") by going into the Office setup program from Add/Remove Programs, choosing Custom setup, and deselecting the templates. Please don't try to limit users to only the templates you supply, though. No one likes a tinpot dictator. Just tell them that certain kinds of documents are required to be based on the company templates, and they're expected to comply. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 04:32:01 -0700, jonny wrote: I have created a set of .dot templates for use by numerous users. I would like to know where to install these and how to set up all users' machines to access the templates. I would like to make their use of the templates as easy as possible. By this I mean: is it possible to set up the user's computer so that when he or she creates a new document, only these templates are available for use? Many thanks |
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Hi again
I went back and had a look at the add/remove options and I dont have the choice of "Run on first" in the drop down. I only have "Install on first". I tried doing the same again without any luck. Thanks for having a look but its not really hindering me, its more bugging me becuase I cant figure it out. I will get our IT guys to chase it up instead. You've probably got more important things to tackle. Thanks again for all the other help you have unknowingly given me. I have managed to get more done through these forums with people like yourself and others without having any idea what Im doing with VBA and without the expensive costs from some of the so called experts we have employed in the past. A little bit of trial and error, copy and paste does wonders. Seeya Sharpe "Jay Freedman" wrote: I did see those ten files in the Templates\1033 folder when I installed the "Typical Wizards" feature group under Access in Add/Remove Programs, and they were removed when I set that group to "Run on first use". But the files in question were Access wizards with extensions of .mdz, not the Word wizard extension of .wiz. They didn't show up in Word's dialog, which still didn't have a Database tab. So something strange is going on in your installation... -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:33:02 -0800, Sharpe wrote: Hi again The files listed on the databases tab were located in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033. I deleted them as per someone elses reply in this forum but the dialog still has the database templates tab. The only difference being that now if I select one of the templates from the dialog tab it asks for the Microsoft Office Pro CD etc to re-install them. So I assumed I had deleted them from the right place. I have seen these files there for a few years now with different versions of office etc. Some examples: Asset Tracker, Ledger, Time and Billing, there's 10 files all up. I did a search on C and our server for any of these files and could not find copies anywhere. Also double checked the user and workgroup template locations, nothing there. Uninstalled the sample databases etc and that just got rid of Northwind. Its got me stumped and our IT boys are giving me strange looks. Ta Sharpe "Jay Freedman" wrote: I have a full installation here of Office 2003, including Access, and I don't have any Databases tab in my File New dialog. I don't think that's one of the built-in ones. Have you looked in the User Templates folder to see if there's a Databases subfolder there? Maybe it was installed by some other program? -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:43:01 -0800, Sharpe wrote: Hi Jay A lot of your advice on this has got me by over the last few months, Thanks One more question please. I have managed to remove all the default Office templates except those for Access. We run Office Pro 2003 but I cant find Wizards & Templates under setup customise etc. Ive tried deleting out of 1033 without luck. My new office doc dialog box is as I want it except for the databases tab. Any ideas how to get rid of these templates? Thanks Sharpe "Jay Freedman" wrote: You can put the templates in a folder on a server that all users can access, and tell everyone to go to Tools Options File Locations and point their Workgroup Templates location to that folder. That will make the templates from that folder available in the File Open dialog. You can remove all of the Microsoft-supplied templates (except Normal.dot, which is used to create the "new blank document") by going into the Office setup program from Add/Remove Programs, choosing Custom setup, and deselecting the templates. Please don't try to limit users to only the templates you supply, though. No one likes a tinpot dictator. Just tell them that certain kinds of documents are required to be based on the company templates, and they're expected to comply. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 04:32:01 -0700, jonny wrote: I have created a set of .dot templates for use by numerous users. I would like to know where to install these and how to set up all users' machines to access the templates. I would like to make their use of the templates as easy as possible. By this I mean: is it possible to set up the user's computer so that when he or she creates a new document, only these templates are available for use? Many thanks |
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