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Invalid Path to File in Templates & Add-ins
Hello Beth,
The problem with the attached template that points to a non-existing server is a wide spread phenomenae. Will Microsoft PLEASE post a script somewhere (not the workaround KB823372 or 830561) that runs FAST thru an entire directory with subdirectories and changes the atttached template to normal.dot. There are people out here that have thousands of documents, spread over hundreds of directories. MS can't be serious in believeing that someone will even consider running the script provided on each of these directories. Just a plain click-and run script that plows thru everything and fixxes it no questions asked. PLEASE??? "Beth Melton" schreef: Unfortunately this has been an issue for some time and a patch has been created for later versions of Word but since you are using Word 2000 you can use the following: Use the macro is the Workaround section at the end of this article (It will work in Word 2000): http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q823372 Also, to help speed up the macro another suggestion is to temporarily recreate the server. The template do not need to be placed on the server since the delay you are encountering is Word searching for the server. If Word can find the server then the macro should loop through the files fairly quickly and make the necessary change. -- Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email can not be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "David" wrote in message ... Since retiring an old server, may user Word 2000 documents take minutes to open rather than seconds. After poking about within the slow files, I found a reference to the old server in Tools Templates and Add-Ins, in the Document template box. Deleteing the box contents and saving the file fixes the problem; file opens nice and fast after that. But opening each and every file to fix will take hours and hours (lots of users and files). I noticed that after deleting the bad reference and saving, Normal appears in the box. Is there a fast way to replace the offending reference with Normal? Is there a way to turn off saving the template used to create new documents? Thanks for the help! David |
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