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Template behavior in Windows Explorer
I have a user who used to double-click on a template file within Windows
Explorer and it would open allowing her to edit the template file directly. The template file got corrupt somehow which she corrected by over-writing the corrupt file with a known good version. Now however when she double-clicks on the template file within Windows Explorer it opens a document, not the template. I know she can work around it by opening the template appropriately via Word and choosing to open *.dot files. She is requesting that get this file to behave as it did once before. Any ideas? |
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If it worked that way BEFORE, then the setting was changed. Default behavior
for double-clicking a DOT file is to create a new document from the template. To change that, double-click My Computer, hit Tools--Folder options. Click the File types tab. Scroll down and select DOT, hit Advanced button. Select Open, and choose Set Default, Ok. ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Shhted" wrote in message ... I have a user who used to double-click on a template file within Windows Explorer and it would open allowing her to edit the template file directly. The template file got corrupt somehow which she corrected by over-writing the corrupt file with a known good version. Now however when she double-clicks on the template file within Windows Explorer it opens a document, not the template. I know she can work around it by opening the template appropriately via Word and choosing to open *.dot files. She is requesting that get this file to behave as it did once before. Any ideas? |
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Excellent! Thank you!
"Anne Troy" wrote: If it worked that way BEFORE, then the setting was changed. Default behavior for double-clicking a DOT file is to create a new document from the template. To change that, double-click My Computer, hit Tools--Folder options. Click the File types tab. Scroll down and select DOT, hit Advanced button. Select Open, and choose Set Default, Ok. ************ Anne Troy www.OfficeArticles.com "Shhted" wrote in message ... I have a user who used to double-click on a template file within Windows Explorer and it would open allowing her to edit the template file directly. The template file got corrupt somehow which she corrected by over-writing the corrupt file with a known good version. Now however when she double-clicks on the template file within Windows Explorer it opens a document, not the template. I know she can work around it by opening the template appropriately via Word and choosing to open *.dot files. She is requesting that get this file to behave as it did once before. Any ideas? |
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The behavior before was wrong! She can right-click on the template if she
wants and select Open. The regular use for a template is to create new documents, not to edit the template. 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. "Shhted" wrote in message ... I have a user who used to double-click on a template file within Windows Explorer and it would open allowing her to edit the template file directly. The template file got corrupt somehow which she corrected by over-writing the corrupt file with a known good version. Now however when she double-clicks on the template file within Windows Explorer it opens a document, not the template. I know she can work around it by opening the template appropriately via Word and choosing to open *.dot files. She is requesting that get this file to behave as it did once before. Any ideas? |
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