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Templates - Slow down over dial up
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Excuse the non-tech speak in places. Word 2000: We have a number of templates that are used for corporate documents, these seem to work fine until you dial up from home. The document you are opening from the server takes longer than it should and it appears to be searching the network for template related things (styles? maybe). My understanding is that unlike Excel (where everything from a template is copied into the new spreadsheet), Word does not copy everything from the custom/global template but needs to get that information during the course of opening and using the document. Is this correct? Can someone let me know what causes the extra work when dialing in, is the above correct and is there a way round this? Many thanks Andy |
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Unless you have "Automatically update styles" checked in the Tools |
Templates and Add-ins dialog, Word doesn't really have any reference to the template after the document is created--at least not for styles and formatting. It would reference the template for macros, AutoText, etc. If none of the latter are an issue, you can just as well attach Normal.dot (making sure that automatic update is *not* enabled) and keep it from looking. -- 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. "Andy280575" wrote in message ... Hi Excuse the non-tech speak in places. Word 2000: We have a number of templates that are used for corporate documents, these seem to work fine until you dial up from home. The document you are opening from the server takes longer than it should and it appears to be searching the network for template related things (styles? maybe). My understanding is that unlike Excel (where everything from a template is copied into the new spreadsheet), Word does not copy everything from the custom/global template but needs to get that information during the course of opening and using the document. Is this correct? Can someone let me know what causes the extra work when dialing in, is the above correct and is there a way round this? Many thanks Andy |
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Thanks for the reply, I will check the settings of the user having issues.
The templates do contain macro's to update fields, would the macros only cause a problem if the macro was 'played' while the document was open? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Unless you have "Automatically update styles" checked in the Tools | Templates and Add-ins dialog, Word doesn't really have any reference to the template after the document is created--at least not for styles and formatting. It would reference the template for macros, AutoText, etc. If none of the latter are an issue, you can just as well attach Normal.dot (making sure that automatic update is *not* enabled) and keep it from looking. -- 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. "Andy280575" wrote in message ... Hi Excuse the non-tech speak in places. Word 2000: We have a number of templates that are used for corporate documents, these seem to work fine until you dial up from home. The document you are opening from the server takes longer than it should and it appears to be searching the network for template related things (styles? maybe). My understanding is that unlike Excel (where everything from a template is copied into the new spreadsheet), Word does not copy everything from the custom/global template but needs to get that information during the course of opening and using the document. Is this correct? Can someone let me know what causes the extra work when dialing in, is the above correct and is there a way round this? Many thanks Andy |
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If the template were attached to Normal.dot, the macros would be
unavailable, but if the template attached to the document is on a network, it doesn't matter whether Word really needs it or not, it is going to search for it when you open the document. -- 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. "Andy280575" wrote in message ... Thanks for the reply, I will check the settings of the user having issues. The templates do contain macro's to update fields, would the macros only cause a problem if the macro was 'played' while the document was open? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Unless you have "Automatically update styles" checked in the Tools | Templates and Add-ins dialog, Word doesn't really have any reference to the template after the document is created--at least not for styles and formatting. It would reference the template for macros, AutoText, etc. If none of the latter are an issue, you can just as well attach Normal.dot (making sure that automatic update is *not* enabled) and keep it from looking. -- 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. "Andy280575" wrote in message ... Hi Excuse the non-tech speak in places. Word 2000: We have a number of templates that are used for corporate documents, these seem to work fine until you dial up from home. The document you are opening from the server takes longer than it should and it appears to be searching the network for template related things (styles? maybe). My understanding is that unlike Excel (where everything from a template is copied into the new spreadsheet), Word does not copy everything from the custom/global template but needs to get that information during the course of opening and using the document. Is this correct? Can someone let me know what causes the extra work when dialing in, is the above correct and is there a way round this? Many thanks Andy |
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