[L Sangree]

I will have to read up more on templates. We have 50+ page documents with
10-20 links to Excel. Can that really be replaced with a template?

If "the documents created from the template will keep a mutual attachment to
that template " and the template is on the server, what happens when the user
is working with offline files on his laptop and not connected to the server?

The source or sample document is frequently updated but we would not want
those updates to affect a document that is already "in progress". I don't
think changes to text in a template affect existing documents that are based
on it, but I want to confirm that.

We have close to 200 sample/source/boilerplate documents. Changing them all
to templates would be quite an undertaking. I assume we would have to strip
out all formatting and reformat so we aren't just carrying the problem
forward.

"Terry Farrell" wrote:

You should not copy a document to start a new document: templates are what
should be used. Place the templates in a single folder on the server and
then on each users' PC, set the File Locations Workgroup template option to
point to that location. Now when the user go File | New, they will see the
template listed: double-click to open a new document based on the template.

The problem you are experiencing suggests that you have a conflict of styles
between the document (presumably originally based on normal.dot) and the
users' own normal.dots. If you use a template on the server, the documents
created from the template will keep a mutual attachment to that template and
there won't be any conflict with the normal.dot on a user's PC.

Terry