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Templates and Add-Ins
Thanx for the previous feedback. I also thought it was searching across the
network for the old template. Next question: How can I automate it to automatically strip looking for the template which is no longer available and link it to my new template. I have tried the following: With ActiveDocument .UpdateStylesOnOpen = True .AttachedTemplate = "C:\templates\Normal.dot" End With in an AutoOpen macro which works beautifully apart from the fact that the document still needs to be opened first and takes quite a while to open. Can one not look at document properties before the document is opened and strip the template at that point so that the document opens faster? However I think "the attached template" is a built-in property? Hope you understand what I am asking. |
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First. You do _not_ want to have your documents update their styles on
open - hardly ever! That is the path to tearing your hair out. Second, try doing the updating when logged off your network. Documents will open much faster. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Joey" wrote in message news Thanx for the previous feedback. I also thought it was searching across the network for the old template. Next question: How can I automate it to automatically strip looking for the template which is no longer available and link it to my new template. I have tried the following: With ActiveDocument .UpdateStylesOnOpen = True .AttachedTemplate = "C:\templates\Normal.dot" End With in an AutoOpen macro which works beautifully apart from the fact that the document still needs to be opened first and takes quite a while to open. Can one not look at document properties before the document is opened and strip the template at that point so that the document opens faster? However I think "the attached template" is a built-in property? Hope you understand what I am asking. |
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Thanx for the info. Charles maybe I should explain the entire problem below.
We receive documents from other law firms via email which have been created with their templates so our styles and paragraph numbering doesn't work in their documents unless you update the styles therefore the reason for that. We need to amend the documents and mail them back to them. So the problem lies in opening documents from outside our office via Outlook into word. We cannot log off the network as the email won't work then unless we run with offline folders but we will be logging on and off all the time. Understand my frustration? Any other suggestion or I'm I misunderstanding? "Charles Kenyon" wrote: First. You do _not_ want to have your documents update their styles on open - hardly ever! That is the path to tearing your hair out. Second, try doing the updating when logged off your network. Documents will open much faster. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Joey" wrote in message news Thanx for the previous feedback. I also thought it was searching across the network for the old template. Next question: How can I automate it to automatically strip looking for the template which is no longer available and link it to my new template. I have tried the following: With ActiveDocument .UpdateStylesOnOpen = True .AttachedTemplate = "C:\templates\Normal.dot" End With in an AutoOpen macro which works beautifully apart from the fact that the document still needs to be opened first and takes quite a while to open. Can one not look at document properties before the document is opened and strip the template at that point so that the document opens faster? However I think "the attached template" is a built-in property? Hope you understand what I am asking. |
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You still don't want your paragraph numbering and styles in their documents.
The results are unpredictable at best. If you are editing them for return to the other law firm they will not appreciate your changes. When they get them back, they will attach to their normal.dot and update styles from their normal.dot. If they know what they are doing, the documents did not start out based on normal.dot but a different custom template. They will get back something that isn't what you sent and isn't what they started with either. If you are editing them for use on your own system, then work with copies and remove their formatting before applying your own. Again, updating styles upon opening is a recipe for disaster. You should not be opening Word documents directly from email but rather saving to disk and opening from your disk. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Joey" wrote in message ... Thanx for the info. Charles maybe I should explain the entire problem below. We receive documents from other law firms via email which have been created with their templates so our styles and paragraph numbering doesn't work in their documents unless you update the styles therefore the reason for that. We need to amend the documents and mail them back to them. So the problem lies in opening documents from outside our office via Outlook into word. We cannot log off the network as the email won't work then unless we run with offline folders but we will be logging on and off all the time. Understand my frustration? Any other suggestion or I'm I misunderstanding? "Charles Kenyon" wrote: First. You do _not_ want to have your documents update their styles on open - hardly ever! That is the path to tearing your hair out. Second, try doing the updating when logged off your network. Documents will open much faster. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Joey" wrote in message news Thanx for the previous feedback. I also thought it was searching across the network for the old template. Next question: How can I automate it to automatically strip looking for the template which is no longer available and link it to my new template. I have tried the following: With ActiveDocument .UpdateStylesOnOpen = True .AttachedTemplate = "C:\templates\Normal.dot" End With in an AutoOpen macro which works beautifully apart from the fact that the document still needs to be opened first and takes quite a while to open. Can one not look at document properties before the document is opened and strip the template at that point so that the document opens faster? However I think "the attached template" is a built-in property? Hope you understand what I am asking. |