As a mac user, Word has a gallery that takes me right to my templates, which,
when selected open a new document based on the template without changing the
template. How do I get the same results in the WINTEL PC environment on
word. Same question for Excel.

In Office 2002 (XP) and 2003, click File | New. This opens a Task Pane at the
right. Ab. 1/2 way down you will see an entry "New form template". Below that
is a list of recently used templates, and "General Templates" - clicking the
latter will take you to your templates folder, which is the equivalent of
Mac's template gallery.
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Ted

For easy access, you may want to restore the old FileNew dialog box;
see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/C...ngWord2002.htm.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"TedMi" wrote in message
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In Office 2002 (XP) and 2003, click File | New. This opens a Task
Pane at the
right. Ab. 1/2 way down you will see an entry "New form template".
Below that
is a list of recently used templates, and "General Templates" -
clicking the
latter will take you to your templates folder, which is the
equivalent of
Mac's template gallery.
--
Ted