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Workgroup templates
Ever since I put my company's common templates on our server as workgroup
templates, we have had no end of problems with the app. Some of these a messages about changes affecting the normal template - do we want to save?, phantom (~$) versions of templates and docs remaining in the templates folder after the relevant doc(s) or application is closed. A new Normal.dot template appering on the server when Word is opened on a client pc even though a Normal.dot template exists locally. Problems saving docs and opening new docs based on the workgroup templates. Are there some rules or best pratices re workgroup templates that I might not be following? Office 97 BTW, various clients, SBS2000 server. TIA |
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When I worked in word processing at Group Health, we had common templates on
the Server but were NEW templates - did not edit NORMAL.DOT at all. And these templates were available to people in the supported departments only with a login ID and Password. The original template was protected. The end user could not edit those. Only open a new document based on that template design. If membory serves me correctly, while you have Word OPEN, there is a temporary file there with the little "~" as a file prefix . Don't know if it's saved when Word is closed out. It is supposed to be temporary (a backup?) - OUCH - Office 97?????? Holy cow! I haven't seen that in eons! G Is there any reason why the company hasn't upgraded to at least Office 2002? It's so much better! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ever since I put my company's common templates on our server as workgroup templates, we have had no end of problems with the app. Some of these a messages about changes affecting the normal template - do we want to save?, phantom (~$) versions of templates and docs remaining in the templates folder after the relevant doc(s) or application is closed. A new Normal.dot template appering on the server when Word is opened on a client pc even though a Normal.dot template exists locally. Problems saving docs and opening new docs based on the workgroup templates. Are there some rules or best pratices re workgroup templates that I might not be following? Office 97 BTW, various clients, SBS2000 server. TIA |
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For more on the different kinds of templates, tabs on the file new dialog,
and locations of templates folders see 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://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. "Jon Lewis" wrote in message ... Ever since I put my company's common templates on our server as workgroup templates, we have had no end of problems with the app. Some of these a messages about changes affecting the normal template - do we want to save?, phantom (~$) versions of templates and docs remaining in the templates folder after the relevant doc(s) or application is closed. A new Normal.dot template appering on the server when Word is opened on a client pc even though a Normal.dot template exists locally. Problems saving docs and opening new docs based on the workgroup templates. Are there some rules or best pratices re workgroup templates that I might not be following? Office 97 BTW, various clients, SBS2000 server. TIA |
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