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Get 'Workgroup Templates' to show up in 'New Document' Task Pane?
I have specified an accessible folder on the LAN file server as the location
for Workgroup Templates, via Tools/Options/File Locations. File/New, in Word 2003, does not immediately open a dialog box displaying a (tabbed) list of .dot files to select from. Rather, it opens the 'New Document' task pane. Under 'Templates', the 'New Document' pane offers 'Templates on Office Online', 'On my computer ...' and 'On my web sites ...' 'Workgroup Templates' is NOT offered; being stored in a folder on the LAN file server, they do NOT show up in the box displayed if you select 'On my computer', and being on the LAN rather than somewhere on the Internet they do NOT show up in the box displayed if you select 'On my web sites', even if the appropriate folder on the LAN file server has been added to (and shows up in the Local Network section of) 'My Network Places' In other words, using Tools/Options/File Locations to identify a LAN folder where Workgroup Templates are located does nothing to make templates stored there easily accessible to the Word user, because in Word 2003 specification of the group of templates from which the user may select the .dot to usse in creating a new document is mediated by the 'New Document' task pane, and the workgroup templates location is NOT among the options displayed on the 'New Document' task pane. This defeats the whole (and obviously useful) purpose of having Tools/Options/File Locations/Workgroup Templates, so there must be some workaround. The Word documentation, however, is completely devoid of useful information about 'Workgroups'. |
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Hi ?B?QnJpYW4gSW4gUGhvZW5peA==?=,
You should try asking this in the office.setup and/or word.setup.networking newsgroup(s). Links can be added to the New Document task pane, using VBA. But I should think there would be a way using a Policy of some kind, as well... I have specified an accessible folder on the LAN file server as the location for Workgroup Templates, via Tools/Options/File Locations. File/New, in Word 2003, does not immediately open a dialog box displaying a (tabbed) list of .dot files to select from. Rather, it opens the 'New Document' task pane. Under 'Templates', the 'New Document' pane offers 'Templates on Office Online', 'On my computer ...' and 'On my web sites ...' 'Workgroup Templates' is NOT offered; being stored in a folder on the LAN file server, they do NOT show up in the box displayed if you select 'On my computer', and being on the LAN rather than somewhere on the Internet they do NOT show up in the box displayed if you select 'On my web sites', even if the appropriate folder on the LAN file server has been added to (and shows up in the Local Network section of) 'My Network Places' Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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I have just re-posted my question the in office.setup so we'll see if there's
any response there. As for 'word.setup.networking,' I do not see a 'setup' group under 'word', in the Office newsgroups listing displayed here. B in Phoenix |
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Try looking at
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...s/default.aspx or access the group directly at news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...tup.networking -- 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. "Brian In Phoenix" wrote in message ... I have just re-posted my question the in office.setup so we'll see if there's any response there. As for 'word.setup.networking,' I do not see a 'setup' group under 'word', in the Office newsgroups listing displayed here. B in Phoenix |
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