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Workgroup Templates on Laptops
Hi,
Not sure if this is the best newsgroup for this but I couldn't see a template group. Apologies in advance if this is out of place. In a large(ish) organisation, what have people found to be the best method of distributing templates? I thought setting all users' Workgroup Template location to the same network share would be the best approach. Global templates could go here and subfolders added for each department that needs to share templates at a departmental level. The problem is what to do about laptop users. I guess that we could set the template network share to be available offline but I'm not sure I entirely trust offline folders (I have had them go very odd in both Windows 2000 and Windows XP after a few months of use). Does anyone have any suggestions about the best way to distribute templates such as these? Cheers Paul |
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Workgroup Templates on Laptops
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Set each user's network login (laptop or desktop) to update the workgroup templates to a local folder upon login. This minimizes network load and assures that you can update your workgroup templates without knocking everyone off of Word. Do the same thing with global templates (except they go in a separate startup folder). http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...buteMacros.htm 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://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ 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. "Paul" wrote in message ... Hi, Not sure if this is the best newsgroup for this but I couldn't see a template group. Apologies in advance if this is out of place. In a large(ish) organisation, what have people found to be the best method of distributing templates? I thought setting all users' Workgroup Template location to the same network share would be the best approach. Global templates could go here and subfolders added for each department that needs to share templates at a departmental level. The problem is what to do about laptop users. I guess that we could set the template network share to be available offline but I'm not sure I entirely trust offline folders (I have had them go very odd in both Windows 2000 and Windows XP after a few months of use). Does anyone have any suggestions about the best way to distribute templates such as these? Cheers Paul |
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