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Word 2K templates location?
Where do Word 2K "new document" templates live? I don't recall specifying a
file location in options [d&s/username/appl data/MS/templates], but there's a bunch there that I see, but there's a LOT more of them in what appears to be a default location in the program files/microsoft office/1033 folder. Plus some of them seem to be in groupings, like "letters & faxes" for just one, but I can't find the specific group names anywhere. Are these groupings based on something internal to the .dot? Some of them do relate to specific folders, but not all of them. Created a test one in the AD folder and it worked fine. I also have 2 "general" groups, and want to kill one, but am not sure how to do that, since I only SEE one in those folders above! One of them has several templates I developed, which is fine, but the other one has only "blank document" and "web page" (no suffix showing and 0 size). I'm assuming "blank document" is normal.dot, but I'd prefer it to be in that same folder with the other personalized files. One is at the top level of the location I chose, and copying it to the "general" folder mentioned above, does create "blank doc" there too, not surprisingly. I've moved some of the files around, and they seem to move OK, but sometimes they show up as (for example) "some file of choice" but other times they show as "somefileofchoice.dot" in the new doc dialog. It looks like sometimes if you move a template, it stays in its old place with a zero size, but works fine in the new location. Weird. I would like to move them around into groups that make more sense to me but now I'm not so sure I have the right ones. Does the new doc dialog pull from both locations, my designated one and the 1033 folder? What exactly IS the 1033 folder for, btw? I don't really care where they live, I just want them all in the same folder tree. Any thoughts? TIA |
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See “OFF2000: How Office 2000 Manages Templates” at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=240216 -- 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. "EPPack" wrote in message ... Where do Word 2K "new document" templates live? I don't recall specifying a file location in options [d&s/username/appl data/MS/templates], but there's a bunch there that I see, but there's a LOT more of them in what appears to be a default location in the program files/microsoft office/1033 folder. Plus some of them seem to be in groupings, like "letters & faxes" for just one, but I can't find the specific group names anywhere. Are these groupings based on something internal to the .dot? Some of them do relate to specific folders, but not all of them. Created a test one in the AD folder and it worked fine. I also have 2 "general" groups, and want to kill one, but am not sure how to do that, since I only SEE one in those folders above! One of them has several templates I developed, which is fine, but the other one has only "blank document" and "web page" (no suffix showing and 0 size). I'm assuming "blank document" is normal.dot, but I'd prefer it to be in that same folder with the other personalized files. One is at the top level of the location I chose, and copying it to the "general" folder mentioned above, does create "blank doc" there too, not surprisingly. I've moved some of the files around, and they seem to move OK, but sometimes they show up as (for example) "some file of choice" but other times they show as "somefileofchoice.dot" in the new doc dialog. It looks like sometimes if you move a template, it stays in its old place with a zero size, but works fine in the new location. Weird. I would like to move them around into groups that make more sense to me but now I'm not so sure I have the right ones. Does the new doc dialog pull from both locations, my designated one and the 1033 folder? What exactly IS the 1033 folder for, btw? I don't really care where they live, I just want them all in the same folder tree. Any thoughts? TIA |
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It depends on your operating system and setup. For more on the different
kinds of templates, tabs on the file new dialog, and locations of templates folders see 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://www.mvps.org/word 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. "EPPack" wrote in message ... Where do Word 2K "new document" templates live? I don't recall specifying a file location in options [d&s/username/appl data/MS/templates], but there's a bunch there that I see, but there's a LOT more of them in what appears to be a default location in the program files/microsoft office/1033 folder. Plus some of them seem to be in groupings, like "letters & faxes" for just one, but I can't find the specific group names anywhere. Are these groupings based on something internal to the .dot? Some of them do relate to specific folders, but not all of them. Created a test one in the AD folder and it worked fine. I also have 2 "general" groups, and want to kill one, but am not sure how to do that, since I only SEE one in those folders above! One of them has several templates I developed, which is fine, but the other one has only "blank document" and "web page" (no suffix showing and 0 size). I'm assuming "blank document" is normal.dot, but I'd prefer it to be in that same folder with the other personalized files. One is at the top level of the location I chose, and copying it to the "general" folder mentioned above, does create "blank doc" there too, not surprisingly. I've moved some of the files around, and they seem to move OK, but sometimes they show up as (for example) "some file of choice" but other times they show as "somefileofchoice.dot" in the new doc dialog. It looks like sometimes if you move a template, it stays in its old place with a zero size, but works fine in the new location. Weird. I would like to move them around into groups that make more sense to me but now I'm not so sure I have the right ones. Does the new doc dialog pull from both locations, my designated one and the 1033 folder? What exactly IS the 1033 folder for, btw? I don't really care where they live, I just want them all in the same folder tree. Any thoughts? TIA |
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