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Group Templates on new server
We have a lot of group templates that was sitting on a network share. Share1
we'll call it. The path was something like this \\share1\office\templates. I have consolidated some file servers and moved the templates to this new server. Share2. Now it looks something like this \\share2\group\templates. For some reason when employees try open some of these templates it takes either a really longtime or it gives them an error. Also if someone would have saved one before the change, to their own home directory, local or network, it will do the same thing. As soon as i turn back on the share1 it works great again. I have searched through local registries and have some entries pointing to share1. i change them and still the same thing. These templates all have a company logo image inserted as header. Can someone help me out with this error? |
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It looks to me like the problem you are having is that existing documents
are searching for your templates. If that is the problem, please say so. If it is actually that Word has trouble finding the templates when you want to create new documents, you may need to redefine your workgroup templates location on each computer. Tools Options File Location. Working correctly, templates are _not_ opened to create new documents. Rather, they are found under the File New dialog and used to create new documents. 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://www.mvps.org/word 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. "Luis" wrote in message ... We have a lot of group templates that was sitting on a network share. Share1 we'll call it. The path was something like this \\share1\office\templates. I have consolidated some file servers and moved the templates to this new server. Share2. Now it looks something like this \\share2\group\templates. For some reason when employees try open some of these templates it takes either a really longtime or it gives them an error. Also if someone would have saved one before the change, to their own home directory, local or network, it will do the same thing. As soon as i turn back on the share1 it works great again. I have searched through local registries and have some entries pointing to share1. i change them and still the same thing. These templates all have a company logo image inserted as header. Can someone help me out with this error? |
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Yes, it does have problems with existing documents searching for the
template. It also have problems opening the templates from it's new location. I have changed the group template path within the tools options. These all have a .gif or .tiff in them as the letter head. Thanks for the help. "Charles Kenyon" wrote: It looks to me like the problem you are having is that existing documents are searching for your templates. If that is the problem, please say so. If it is actually that Word has trouble finding the templates when you want to create new documents, you may need to redefine your workgroup templates location on each computer. Tools Options File Location. Working correctly, templates are _not_ opened to create new documents. Rather, they are found under the File New dialog and used to create new documents. 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://www.mvps.org/word 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. "Luis" wrote in message ... We have a lot of group templates that was sitting on a network share. Share1 we'll call it. The path was something like this \\share1\office\templates. I have consolidated some file servers and moved the templates to this new server. Share2. Now it looks something like this \\share2\group\templates. For some reason when employees try open some of these templates it takes either a really longtime or it gives them an error. Also if someone would have saved one before the change, to their own home directory, local or network, it will do the same thing. As soon as i turn back on the share1 it works great again. I have searched through local registries and have some entries pointing to share1. i change them and still the same thing. These templates all have a company logo image inserted as header. Can someone help me out with this error? |
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OK. The problem with existing documents is a pain.
The MVP site has a page on writing a macro to find and replace in all files in a directory. This would be your starting point. http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/BatchFR.htm You would, instead, be opening all documents and attaching a template that can be found. The simplest thing to do with existing documents is open them and attach the normal.dot template to them. This works unless you have specialized macros, toolbars, or AutoText that you need in the documents. You would run the macro at night because it will still take the long time to run. You can speed it up if you can disconnect from the network while running it. Make sure that you are _not_ updating styles from the new template. Otherwise, you would need to reattach to the correct template. That is more of a challenge than I would want to spend the time on. -- 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! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- 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. "Luis" wrote in message ... Yes, it does have problems with existing documents searching for the template. It also have problems opening the templates from it's new location. I have changed the group template path within the tools options. These all have a .gif or .tiff in them as the letter head. Thanks for the help. "Charles Kenyon" wrote: It looks to me like the problem you are having is that existing documents are searching for your templates. If that is the problem, please say so. If it is actually that Word has trouble finding the templates when you want to create new documents, you may need to redefine your workgroup templates location on each computer. Tools Options File Location. Working correctly, templates are _not_ opened to create new documents. Rather, they are found under the File New dialog and used to create new documents. 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://www.mvps.org/word 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. "Luis" wrote in message ... We have a lot of group templates that was sitting on a network share. Share1 we'll call it. The path was something like this \\share1\office\templates. I have consolidated some file servers and moved the templates to this new server. Share2. Now it looks something like this \\share2\group\templates. For some reason when employees try open some of these templates it takes either a really longtime or it gives them an error. Also if someone would have saved one before the change, to their own home directory, local or network, it will do the same thing. As soon as i turn back on the share1 it works great again. I have searched through local registries and have some entries pointing to share1. i change them and still the same thing. These templates all have a company logo image inserted as header. Can someone help me out with this error? |
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