Im a new student learning the Office systems.

Our teacher tells us not to use templates. Always start from scratch and
compose your own letter .

Anybody out there who has problems with templates or do they find them
reliable.

Its seems to me they would be a lot quicker.

Just throwing this out there to get some opionions - pro and/or con

Is your teacher trying to teach you to use Word or to think and write?

If the latter, he/she is correct. You need to learn to write your own
letters.

Templates and form letters are fine for businesses that are always trying to
send a consistent message in response to a consistently occurring situation.

I use templates for most of my work and correspondence, but they are
templates that I designed and wrote, not something I downloaded off the
Internet. http://addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm.
--
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://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"Templatress" wrote in message
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Im a new student learning the Office systems.

Our teacher tells us not to use templates. Always start from scratch and
compose your own letter .

Anybody out there who has problems with templates or do they find them
reliable.

Its seems to me they would be a lot quicker.

Just throwing this out there to get some opionions - pro and/or con

They may be quicker but if you're learning the program, quicker is not the
best way. Another reason not to use templates is creativity. I work in an
office where we often get resumes. Care to guess how many of them are based
on templates I've seen in Word?

Dare to be different! Start from scratch.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Templatress" wrote in message
...
Im a new student learning the Office systems.

Our teacher tells us not to use templates. Always start from scratch and
compose your own letter .

Anybody out there who has problems with templates or do they find them
reliable.

Its seems to me they would be a lot quicker.

Just throwing this out there to get some opionions - pro and/or con

Since your teacher is apparently trying to teach you to use Office
systems (that is an assumption based on what you say that you are
trying to learn), your teacher should at least strive to be technically
correct.

You can't use Word without using a template. Even if that template
doesn't contain any text.

Good point. Normal.dot *is* a template.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Greg" wrote in message
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Since your teacher is apparently trying to teach you to use Office
systems (that is an assumption based on what you say that you are
trying to learn), your teacher should at least strive to be technically
correct.

You can't use Word without using a template. Even if that template
doesn't contain any text.

How so?

"Greg" wrote:

Since your teacher is apparently trying to teach you to use Office
systems (that is an assumption based on what you say that you are
trying to learn), your teacher should at least strive to be technically
correct.

You can't use Word without using a template. Even if that template
doesn't contain any text.

Huh?

"JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote:

Good point. Normal.dot *is* a template.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Greg" wrote in message
oups.com...
Since your teacher is apparently trying to teach you to use Office
systems (that is an assumption based on what you say that you are
trying to learn), your teacher should at least strive to be technically
correct.

You can't use Word without using a template. Even if that template
doesn't contain any text.

My answer explained it. The fact that you didn't understand my response is
exactly why your teacher wants you to learn how to use Word from scratch.

mom mode on
Study hard - get good grades! And go to bed.
mom mode off
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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Templatress" wrote in message
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How so?

"Greg" wrote:

Since your teacher is apparently trying to teach you to use Office
systems (that is an assumption based on what you say that you are
trying to learn), your teacher should at least strive to be technically
correct.

You can't use Word without using a template. Even if that template
doesn't contain any text.

Your default Blank Document is based on the Normal.dot template. See
€œNormal.dot Template€”Explained€�
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/P...cle.asp?ID=151

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Templatress" wrote in message
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Huh?

"JoAnn Paules [MVP]" wrote:

Good point. Normal.dot *is* a template.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Greg" wrote in message
oups.com...
Since your teacher is apparently trying to teach you to use Office
systems (that is an assumption based on what you say that you are
trying to learn), your teacher should at least strive to be
technically
correct.

You can't use Word without using a template. Even if that template
doesn't contain any text.

Templatress,

Teachers like yours (the ones that don't know what they are talking about)
are the kind I really don't like.

You cannot create a document in Word without using a template. When you open
Word and you see that "Document 1 - Microsoft Word" up on the title bar,
that is "Document 1" based on a Word template named "Normal.dot."

Your teacher would probably be more effective at "learning" you ;-), if
he/she would learn you to create a custom template to meet your general or
specific requirements.

Greg Maxey/Word MVP
See:
http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/word_tips.htm
For some helpful tips using Word.


Templatress wrote:
How so?

"Greg" wrote:

Since your teacher is apparently trying to teach you to use Office
systems (that is an assumption based on what you say that you are
trying to learn), your teacher should at least strive to be
technically correct.

You can't use Word without using a template. Even if that template
doesn't contain any text.

I have a host of templates I have created myself for the work I do and I find
them, as well as the excellent ones from the Microsoft site, invaluable.

I do agree with your teacher--it is important to learn the correct method
for formatting/setting up documents. Once this has been learned though, I
would encourage the use of templates.

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"Templatress" wrote:

Im a new student learning the Office systems.

Our teacher tells us not to use templates. Always start from scratch and
compose your own letter .

Anybody out there who has problems with templates or do they find them
reliable.

Its seems to me they would be a lot quicker.

Just throwing this out there to get some opionions - pro and/or con