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I have had to create a new template in 2003 after years of previous
word versions. Because I like to keep my own creations off the C: partition I have created a templates folder in my data partition and set the file locations to look there for templates. It now seems that when I click on File.New it doesn't look at my new folder. To find the template I have to go FileOpenDocs/Templates and open the template that way. It's not as convenient. Also I created a date but it doesn't update when I open the template. Is there any help, please. Many thanks. Colin |
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Oops! Just realized that this is the Word group, not the Excel group.
Regardless, the instructions to change your template directory work, but the add-in I referred to is an Excel add-in. Cheers, Ken Puls, CMA - Microsoft MVP (Excel) www.excelguru.ca wrote: I have had to create a new template in 2003 after years of previous word versions. Because I like to keep my own creations off the C: partition I have created a templates folder in my data partition and set the file locations to look there for templates. It now seems that when I click on File.New it doesn't look at my new folder. To find the template I have to go FileOpenDocs/Templates and open the template that way. It's not as convenient. Also I created a date but it doesn't update when I open the template. Is there any help, please. Many thanks. Colin |
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Hello Ken
I don't have any difficulty with modifying file location but it doesn't seem to behave the way I expect it. I'll use your utility and let you know the result. More to the point, in spite of advices posted to others just a few days ago, I've had no luck with establishing a date in the template that updates to today's date. I know that there is such a thing because after many false starts I created one 5 or 6 years ago. Sp[ecifically, the template had a date, let's say 28 October, 1999, and when I clicked on new and chose letters.dot it opened a document that was already dated with today's date. How do you do that. As a last resort I might be able to use True Image v8 to extract that file from a year old image. I might just do that if all else fails. Best wishes. Colin On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 13:44:07 -0700, Ken Puls wrote: Oops! Just realized that this is the Word group, not the Excel group. Regardless, the instructions to change your template directory work, but the add-in I referred to is an Excel add-in. Cheers, Ken Puls, CMA - Microsoft MVP (Excel) www.excelguru.ca wrote: I have had to create a new template in 2003 after years of previous word versions. Because I like to keep my own creations off the C: partition I have created a templates folder in my data partition and set the file locations to look there for templates. It now seems that when I click on File.New it doesn't look at my new folder. To find the template I have to go FileOpenDocs/Templates and open the template that way. It's not as convenient. Also I created a date but it doesn't update when I open the template. Is there any help, please. Many thanks. Colin |
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The best sort of date field to insert in a template is CreateDate. This will
always reflect the creation date of the template in the template but will update to the creation date of the document in each new document based on the template. It will never update afterward. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/DateFields.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. wrote in message ... Hello Ken I don't have any difficulty with modifying file location but it doesn't seem to behave the way I expect it. I'll use your utility and let you know the result. More to the point, in spite of advices posted to others just a few days ago, I've had no luck with establishing a date in the template that updates to today's date. I know that there is such a thing because after many false starts I created one 5 or 6 years ago. Sp[ecifically, the template had a date, let's say 28 October, 1999, and when I clicked on new and chose letters.dot it opened a document that was already dated with today's date. How do you do that. As a last resort I might be able to use True Image v8 to extract that file from a year old image. I might just do that if all else fails. Best wishes. Colin On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 13:44:07 -0700, Ken Puls wrote: Oops! Just realized that this is the Word group, not the Excel group. Regardless, the instructions to change your template directory work, but the add-in I referred to is an Excel add-in. Cheers, Ken Puls, CMA - Microsoft MVP (Excel) www.excelguru.ca wrote: I have had to create a new template in 2003 after years of previous word versions. Because I like to keep my own creations off the C: partition I have created a templates folder in my data partition and set the file locations to look there for templates. It now seems that when I click on File.New it doesn't look at my new folder. To find the template I have to go FileOpenDocs/Templates and open the template that way. It's not as convenient. Also I created a date but it doesn't update when I open the template. Is there any help, please. Many thanks. Colin |
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Hello Suzanne
I realise that I am looking very stupid in public but I have had no success. Everything you have said in this and earlier posts makes good sense but the result is never what I'm looking for. In this instance, having read your htm file, I have clicked Filenew. This has opened a new blank page with the assistant to the left. I click on "templates in my computer" and it obligingly lists the entries from my templates folder in my data partition. I choose letters.dot and position the curser where I want the date. I click InsertCreatedate and choose the format and it produces this: {CREATEDATE \@ "dd MMMM yyyy"\* MERGEFORMAT} I know that this computes as 29 October 2006 but this doesn't appear in the document even after I have saved it, closed it, and re-opened it. It always appears as this code. To be honest, neither did it look like this code in my old template. It always appeared as a date. What can I be doing wrong. Colin On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:00:34 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The best sort of date field to insert in a template is CreateDate. This will always reflect the creation date of the template in the template but will update to the creation date of the document in each new document based on the template. It will never update afterward. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/DateFields.htm |
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Press Alt+F9 (or in this case possibly just F9) to toggle the display from
field codes to field results. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. wrote in message ... Hello Suzanne I realise that I am looking very stupid in public but I have had no success. Everything you have said in this and earlier posts makes good sense but the result is never what I'm looking for. In this instance, having read your htm file, I have clicked Filenew. This has opened a new blank page with the assistant to the left. I click on "templates in my computer" and it obligingly lists the entries from my templates folder in my data partition. I choose letters.dot and position the curser where I want the date. I click InsertCreatedate and choose the format and it produces this: {CREATEDATE \@ "dd MMMM yyyy"\* MERGEFORMAT} I know that this computes as 29 October 2006 but this doesn't appear in the document even after I have saved it, closed it, and re-opened it. It always appears as this code. To be honest, neither did it look like this code in my old template. It always appeared as a date. What can I be doing wrong. Colin On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:00:34 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The best sort of date field to insert in a template is CreateDate. This will always reflect the creation date of the template in the template but will update to the creation date of the document in each new document based on the template. It will never update afterward. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/DateFields.htm |
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You're not doing much wrong as such: what you are seeing is the field codes
rather than the results of the fields. You can change this to always view the results by going to Tools, Options, View tab and clearing the checkbox against View Field Codes. -- Terry Farrell - Word MVP http://word.mvps.org/ wrote in message ... Hello Suzanne I realise that I am looking very stupid in public but I have had no success. Everything you have said in this and earlier posts makes good sense but the result is never what I'm looking for. In this instance, having read your htm file, I have clicked Filenew. This has opened a new blank page with the assistant to the left. I click on "templates in my computer" and it obligingly lists the entries from my templates folder in my data partition. I choose letters.dot and position the curser where I want the date. I click InsertCreatedate and choose the format and it produces this: {CREATEDATE \@ "dd MMMM yyyy"\* MERGEFORMAT} I know that this computes as 29 October 2006 but this doesn't appear in the document even after I have saved it, closed it, and re-opened it. It always appears as this code. To be honest, neither did it look like this code in my old template. It always appeared as a date. What can I be doing wrong. Colin On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:00:34 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The best sort of date field to insert in a template is CreateDate. This will always reflect the creation date of the template in the template but will update to the creation date of the document in each new document based on the template. It will never update afterward. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/DateFields.htm |
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Hurrah!!!
I hope this is a lesson for many others. Best wishes Colin On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 20:23:50 GMT, wrote: I have had to create a new template in 2003 after years of previous word versions. Because I like to keep my own creations off the C: partition I have created a templates folder in my data partition and set the file locations to look there for templates. It now seems that when I click on File.New it doesn't look at my new folder. To find the template I have to go FileOpenDocs/Templates and open the template that way. It's not as convenient. Also I created a date but it doesn't update when I open the template. Is there any help, please. Many thanks. Colin |
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A lesson in what?
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. wrote in message ... Hurrah!!! I hope this is a lesson for many others. Best wishes Colin On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 20:23:50 GMT, wrote: I have had to create a new template in 2003 after years of previous word versions. Because I like to keep my own creations off the C: partition I have created a templates folder in my data partition and set the file locations to look there for templates. It now seems that when I click on File.New it doesn't look at my new folder. To find the template I have to go FileOpenDocs/Templates and open the template that way. It's not as convenient. Also I created a date but it doesn't update when I open the template. Is there any help, please. Many thanks. Colin |
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A lesson in how to insert an updating date in a template. What else?
It was a hope that it would be found helpful to many others who have struggled with it. Colin On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 17:48:29 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: A lesson in what? |
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