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Possible to Change Existing Folders Into Templates Folders?
Hi Folks,
Background: We are finding that Templates solve a huge problem for us. There are many documents are opened remotely by a third-party application and data is fed to Word to do Mail Merges. Templates keep File-Busy conditions from happening, so they will save the day from our Info Tech dept getting ten calls per day for no good reason. Here's the problem: The applications and users all know already where to find their respective documents. It would be great if we could change specific existing folders into Template folders. Please Note: I've already mapped in Word, under Tools/Options/File Locations a Workgroup templates to a mapped drive where we would like Word to treat the folder and everything in it as templates, but that DID NOT WORK. Yet, when I take one of these same documents with a '.dot' extension and put it into the standard Templates directory of: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates then it works fine. But I cannot reasonably move all the needed files to this one directory, and as I said above, changing the location of these hundreds of files would create other headaches. SO... Is it possible to change existing folders to be recognized by the system as Templates folders? One example of one of these folders is named: W:\ocp\wpdocs\legal letters\ Thank You in Advance. The help is Greatly Appreciated! Kind Regards, Cole |
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Possible to Change Existing Folders Into Templates Folders?
I don't know why you were unable to point to an existing folder as the
Workgroup Templates folder - that certainly should be an option. What exactly didn't work? Another solution that is sometimes helpful is to make shortcuts to existing folders of templates or model documents and add them to the User Templates folder. These will then show up as tabs in the File New dialog. -- Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org wrote in message oups.com... Hi Folks, Background: We are finding that Templates solve a huge problem for us. There are many documents are opened remotely by a third-party application and data is fed to Word to do Mail Merges. Templates keep File-Busy conditions from happening, so they will save the day from our Info Tech dept getting ten calls per day for no good reason. Here's the problem: The applications and users all know already where to find their respective documents. It would be great if we could change specific existing folders into Template folders. Please Note: I've already mapped in Word, under Tools/Options/File Locations a Workgroup templates to a mapped drive where we would like Word to treat the folder and everything in it as templates, but that DID NOT WORK. Yet, when I take one of these same documents with a '.dot' extension and put it into the standard Templates directory of: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates then it works fine. But I cannot reasonably move all the needed files to this one directory, and as I said above, changing the location of these hundreds of files would create other headaches. SO... Is it possible to change existing folders to be recognized by the system as Templates folders? One example of one of these folders is named: W:\ocp\wpdocs\legal letters\ Thank You in Advance. The help is Greatly Appreciated! Kind Regards, Cole |
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Possible to Change Existing Folders Into Templates Folders?
Tools/Options/File locations ought to work, but can be set to only one
folder at a time. If it's not working, your company may have locked the Data key or be using System Profiles to prevent this from being changed. In any case, try creating Windows SHORTCUT icons in the central location that is mapped to the various folders. This should bring in all the templates from the various folders to the dialog box. Background: We are finding that Templates solve a huge problem for us. There are many documents are opened remotely by a third-party application and data is fed to Word to do Mail Merges. Templates keep File-Busy conditions from happening, so they will save the day from our Info Tech dept getting ten calls per day for no good reason. Here's the problem: The applications and users all know already where to find their respective documents. It would be great if we could change specific existing folders into Template folders. Please Note: I've already mapped in Word, under Tools/Options/File Locations a Workgroup templates to a mapped drive where we would like Word to treat the folder and everything in it as templates, but that DID NOT WORK. Yet, when I take one of these same documents with a '.dot' extension and put it into the standard Templates directory of: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates then it works fine. But I cannot reasonably move all the needed files to this one directory, and as I said above, changing the location of these hundreds of files would create other headaches. SO... Is it possible to change existing folders to be recognized by the system as Templates folders? One example of one of these folders is named: W:\ocp\wpdocs\legal letters\ Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) 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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