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save a document as a template
Hi and thanks. Wanna do the above and have gone through the instructions:
Micro Office button; "new"; "my templates" ,"Create new", document. (Have already saved as a template as the directions say.) But when I type on the document, it acts as a document, rather than keeping itself as a template for me to use as a form. I tried protecting it and am getting nowhere still. Am I misunderstanding the term "template"? Shouldn't all that info be fixed in place and allow me to type over, like an online tax form? Ugh, computers are so TIME CONSUMING! (just a small tantrum. ) Thanks for any help. -- kmakaren |
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Once you've created and saved the template, don't open it directly again.
Instead, create a new document based on it, by selecting it in Office Button | New. -- 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. "kmakaren" wrote in message ... Hi and thanks. Wanna do the above and have gone through the instructions: Micro Office button; "new"; "my templates" ,"Create new", document. (Have already saved as a template as the directions say.) But when I type on the document, it acts as a document, rather than keeping itself as a template for me to use as a form. I tried protecting it and am getting nowhere still. Am I misunderstanding the term "template"? Shouldn't all that info be fixed in place and allow me to type over, like an online tax form? Ugh, computers are so TIME CONSUMING! (just a small tantrum. ) Thanks for any help. -- kmakaren |
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Thanks, Suzanne, for getting back. Got another minute? Still having trouble:
I go to left corner, "new", either "my templates" or "recently used templates" and still it acts like a document. Thx for your time, K -- kmakaren "kmakaren" wrote: Hi and thanks. Wanna do the above and have gone through the instructions: Micro Office button; "new"; "my templates" ,"Create new", document. (Have already saved as a template as the directions say.) But when I type on the document, it acts as a document, rather than keeping itself as a template for me to use as a form. I tried protecting it and am getting nowhere still. Am I misunderstanding the term "template"? Shouldn't all that info be fixed in place and allow me to type over, like an online tax form? Ugh, computers are so TIME CONSUMING! (just a small tantrum. ) Thanks for any help. -- kmakaren |
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"kmakaren" wrote in message
news Thanks, Suzanne, for getting back. Got another minute? Still having trouble: I go to left corner, "new", either "my templates" or "recently used templates" and still it acts like a document. it will - a document created from a template is still a document - you need to protect the parts you don't want changing and THEN save as a template... |
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Please define what you mean by 'behaves as a document'.
Are you expecting the template text to remain static and allow the users to write in answers in spaces provided? In which case you need to create a FORM, not a template. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm and the forms tutorials by Dian Chapman linked in the article. -- Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP "kmakaren" wrote in message news Thanks, Suzanne, for getting back. Got another minute? Still having trouble: I go to left corner, "new", either "my templates" or "recently used templates" and still it acts like a document. Thx for your time, K -- kmakaren "kmakaren" wrote: Hi and thanks. Wanna do the above and have gone through the instructions: Micro Office button; "new"; "my templates" ,"Create new", document. (Have already saved as a template as the directions say.) But when I type on the document, it acts as a document, rather than keeping itself as a template for me to use as a form. I tried protecting it and am getting nowhere still. Am I misunderstanding the term "template"? Shouldn't all that info be fixed in place and allow me to type over, like an online tax form? Ugh, computers are so TIME CONSUMING! (just a small tantrum. ) Thanks for any help. -- kmakaren |
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BINGO! Thank you soooo much! K
-- kmakaren "Terry Farrell" wrote: Please define what you mean by 'behaves as a document'. Are you expecting the template text to remain static and allow the users to write in answers in spaces provided? In which case you need to create a FORM, not a template. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...nTheBlanks.htm and the forms tutorials by Dian Chapman linked in the article. -- Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP "kmakaren" wrote in message news Thanks, Suzanne, for getting back. Got another minute? Still having trouble: I go to left corner, "new", either "my templates" or "recently used templates" and still it acts like a document. Thx for your time, K -- kmakaren "kmakaren" wrote: Hi and thanks. Wanna do the above and have gone through the instructions: Micro Office button; "new"; "my templates" ,"Create new", document. (Have already saved as a template as the directions say.) But when I type on the document, it acts as a document, rather than keeping itself as a template for me to use as a form. I tried protecting it and am getting nowhere still. Am I misunderstanding the term "template"? Shouldn't all that info be fixed in place and allow me to type over, like an online tax form? Ugh, computers are so TIME CONSUMING! (just a small tantrum. ) Thanks for any help. -- kmakaren |
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