"bjm" wrote in message
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How can I apply a template to a document?
ISTM there was such a specific command in previous version(s) of Word but
I can't find it in 2007.
I want to apply a template to a document that's in another (or nothing
special) template format (with a different set of paragraph styles & so
on).
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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You can access the classic Templates and Add-ins dialog from the Templates
button on the Developer tab if you have that displayed. If not, you'll
need to take the long way round: Office Button | Word Options | Add-ins.
At the bottom of the dialog, select Templates in the Manage... dropdown
and click Go...
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
Thank you!
This appears to be yet another instance of MS deciding that hiding things
from users is the thing to do. It didn't occur to me to try looking around
"developer" for template choices (& if it had, what I wanted would probably
have been somewhere even more obscure), and "help" wasn't any when I
searched for apply, change, or use template, although create shows up fairly
near the top of those "results".
Somehow I never thought that applying a (different) template was such an
advanced task that it needed to be hidden from less exalted users -- I'm
sure I'm not the only mere mortal who has started with the wrong template &
just wanted to apply the right one. I don't understand why that is a
"developer" task like some of the others listed.
Do the usability experts at MS make a special effort to find out how people
do things or where they expect (or hope) to find menu choices so they can
then make it more difficult, or what?
I do have Developer tab displayed, but if I didn't I wouldn't know why -- or
what relegated me to the "non-developer-tasks-only" ranks. Is that tab
something that isn't always displayed -- & why wouldn't it be?
Thanks again.
bj