I downloaded a fax cover sheet template from Microsoft. I customized the
template with my personal information, e-mailed it to my boss, customized the
template with his personal information while sitting at his PC, and now, the
files are linked. I can't make a change to my file that doesn't effect his
file. How do I unlink these two seemingly independent documents? Thanks.
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bb

What you are describing makes no sense. Describe the linkage between your
system and your boss' system. Networked? Sharing a user templates folder?

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.

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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!
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"bbonn" wrote in message
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I downloaded a fax cover sheet template from Microsoft. I customized the
template with my personal information, e-mailed it to my boss, customized
the
template with his personal information while sitting at his PC, and now,
the
files are linked. I can't make a change to my file that doesn't effect
his
file. How do I unlink these two seemingly independent documents? Thanks.
--
bb

I think what happened here is you created two instances of the same template.
Your boss has to have his own copy of the .dot file. Every time you
double-click on a .dot file, it creates a .doc instance of that template
which is linked back to the .dot

"bbonn" wrote:

I downloaded a fax cover sheet template from Microsoft. I customized the
template with my personal information, e-mailed it to my boss, customized the
template with his personal information while sitting at his PC, and now, the
files are linked. I can't make a change to my file that doesn't effect his
file. How do I unlink these two seemingly independent documents? Thanks.
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bb