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Organizer or Template-which one is more efficient?
In using Word 2002, XP, I've been using Organizer but
after reading some of the questions here, I wonder if using a Template is better. We have 20 users that I'm supposed to be advising on the best way to do this to ensure uniformity of Styles in our company documents. I have had an easier time dealing with the Organizer, whereas importing a template was a bit confusing to me. Just looking for your expert opinion(s). Thank you in advance. EDO |
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Hi Edo
EDO wrote: In using Word 2002, XP, I've been using Organizer but after reading some of the questions here, I wonder if using a Template is better. We have 20 users that I'm supposed to be advising on the best way to do this to ensure uniformity of Styles in our company documents. I have had an easier time dealing with the Organizer, whereas importing a template was a bit confusing to me. Just looking for your expert opinion(s). It's not clear to me what you want to achieve: Usually, the Organizer is a way (or: can be a way) of transporting styles (and other stuff) *between* Documents or _Templates_. "Ordinary" (no offence intended!) users shouldn't not have to worry about either, beceause templates should be provided to them. Greetings Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Robert:
We've had a template on our Intranet since May '04! My group doesn't like using it because when we import a template, some inconsistent results occur, even after UNchecking Automatically Update Styles after importing the template. The Organizer seemed like a solution to people's uneasiness Thank you, EDO -----Original Message----- Hi Edo EDO wrote: In using Word 2002, XP, I've been using Organizer but after reading some of the questions here, I wonder if using a Template is better. We have 20 users that I'm supposed to be advising on the best way to do this to ensure uniformity of Styles in our company documents. I have had an easier time dealing with the Organizer, whereas importing a template was a bit confusing to me. Just looking for your expert opinion(s). It's not clear to me what you want to achieve: Usually, the Organizer is a way (or: can be a way) of transporting styles (and other stuff) *between* Documents or _Templates_. "Ordinary" (no offence intended!) users shouldn't not have to worry about either, beceause templates should be provided to them. Greetings Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word . |
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Hi Edo
EDO wrote: We've had a template on our Intranet since May '04! My group doesn't like using it because when we import a template, some inconsistent results occur, even after UNchecking Automatically Update Styles after importing the template. What exactly do you mean with "import the template"? The usual way of using templates is to place them in a folder on your fileserver where your workgroup has access to (or, alternatively, copy them into each each user profile with a logon script). That way, the user goes to File | New in Word, selects the template and gets a new document based on it. You could technically place a hyperlink to a template in your intranet (usually people who do that come to the newsgroups and we then advice them to create a hyperlink to a Windows-shortcut to the file); it's probably not the intended procedure. If you could repro and describe the "inconsitencies" in detail, that would be of interest here I'm sure. Greetings Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Robert:
I should've added that employees tried to add the template to an existing document that probably has some direct formatting due to many users over the years. When the template was attached the existing document, the formatting would get skewered (i.e., Titles) whereas they prefer using the Organizer because they can just pick the heading styles only. Thank you! EDO -----Original Message----- Hi Edo EDO wrote: We've had a template on our Intranet since May '04! My group doesn't like using it because when we import a template, some inconsistent results occur, even after UNchecking Automatically Update Styles after importing the template. What exactly do you mean with "import the template"? The usual way of using templates is to place them in a folder on your fileserver where your workgroup has access to (or, alternatively, copy them into each each user profile with a logon script). That way, the user goes to File | New in Word, selects the template and gets a new document based on it. You could technically place a hyperlink to a template in your intranet (usually people who do that come to the newsgroups and we then advice them to create a hyperlink to a Windows-shortcut to the file); it's probably not the intended procedure. If you could repro and describe the "inconsitencies" in detail, that would be of interest here I'm sure. Greetings Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word . |
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