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How do you create a template without using an existing template?
The book I have demontrates how to create a template from an existing one,
but how do you create one from scratch? |
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How do you create a template without using an existing template?
You cannot. Any document opened in Word is based on a template. Even the
BLANK document you get on opening Word is created from normal.dot (the global template). But you can open a document. select SaveAs and choose template to make the document into a template. But even that document must have been created originally from a template. -- Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP "sheana" wrote in message ... The book I have demontrates how to create a template from an existing one, but how do you create one from scratch? |
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How do you create a template without using an existing template?
In the New (or, in recent editions, Templates) dialog, select Blank Document
and the radio button for Template rather than Document. As Terry points out, all templates are based on *something,* but basing a template on Normal.dot (which you do if you select Blank Document) is as close as you can get to creating one "from scratch." As Terry mentions, you can also create a template based on a document by saving the document as a template. There are a few differences between creating a template "from scratch" (in the New/Templates dialog) and saving a document as a template. The primary one is that anything that can be stored only in a template (and not in a document) will be included when you create a template from scratch. What this pretty much boils down to these days is AutoText entries, with the Catch-22 that AutoText entries in Normal.dot are *not* copied into a new template (if they were, they would be duplicated on your AutoText menus). But if you have saved AutoText entries in a specific document template and create a new template based on that one, you will get them in the new template. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "sheana" wrote in message ... The book I have demontrates how to create a template from an existing one, but how do you create one from scratch? |
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How do you create a template without using an existing template?
Hi Suzanne, Terry
I have to say that this is not my experience. If I set Normal style in Normal.dot to be, say, 8pt Arial Magenta, and if (Word 2003 here), in the Templates dialog, I select the Template radio button and create a new Template, then Word will create my new template with the out-of-the-box settings and Normal style will be TNR 12. I conclude that, in this case, Word is not creating my new template on normal.dot, but is instead building it straight from its default settings stored in the binary. On the other hand, if I create a new document (with my 8pt Arial Magenta) and save it as a template, then I get a template with 8pt Arial Magenta for Normal style. Is that not what you see? Shauna Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... In the New (or, in recent editions, Templates) dialog, select Blank Document and the radio button for Template rather than Document. As Terry points out, all templates are based on *something,* but basing a template on Normal.dot (which you do if you select Blank Document) is as close as you can get to creating one "from scratch." As Terry mentions, you can also create a template based on a document by saving the document as a template. There are a few differences between creating a template "from scratch" (in the New/Templates dialog) and saving a document as a template. The primary one is that anything that can be stored only in a template (and not in a document) will be included when you create a template from scratch. What this pretty much boils down to these days is AutoText entries, with the Catch-22 that AutoText entries in Normal.dot are *not* copied into a new template (if they were, they would be duplicated on your AutoText menus). But if you have saved AutoText entries in a specific document template and create a new template based on that one, you will get them in the new template. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "sheana" wrote in message ... The book I have demontrates how to create a template from an existing one, but how do you create one from scratch? |
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How do you create a template without using an existing template?
I was speaking theoretically and (obviously) without empirical knowledge. To
begin with, I don't often create templates. Moreover, I never modify the formatting of Normal.dot (I customize it with toolbar buttons and AutoText and macros and the like, but I don't change the font, page layout, style definitions, etc.) because I want to keep it pristine as a reference for the out-of-the-box style definitions. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Shauna Kelly" wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne, Terry I have to say that this is not my experience. If I set Normal style in Normal.dot to be, say, 8pt Arial Magenta, and if (Word 2003 here), in the Templates dialog, I select the Template radio button and create a new Template, then Word will create my new template with the out-of-the-box settings and Normal style will be TNR 12. I conclude that, in this case, Word is not creating my new template on normal.dot, but is instead building it straight from its default settings stored in the binary. On the other hand, if I create a new document (with my 8pt Arial Magenta) and save it as a template, then I get a template with 8pt Arial Magenta for Normal style. Is that not what you see? Shauna Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... In the New (or, in recent editions, Templates) dialog, select Blank Document and the radio button for Template rather than Document. As Terry points out, all templates are based on *something,* but basing a template on Normal.dot (which you do if you select Blank Document) is as close as you can get to creating one "from scratch." As Terry mentions, you can also create a template based on a document by saving the document as a template. There are a few differences between creating a template "from scratch" (in the New/Templates dialog) and saving a document as a template. The primary one is that anything that can be stored only in a template (and not in a document) will be included when you create a template from scratch. What this pretty much boils down to these days is AutoText entries, with the Catch-22 that AutoText entries in Normal.dot are *not* copied into a new template (if they were, they would be duplicated on your AutoText menus). But if you have saved AutoText entries in a specific document template and create a new template based on that one, you will get them in the new template. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "sheana" wrote in message ... The book I have demontrates how to create a template from an existing one, but how do you create one from scratch? |
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How do you create a template without using an existing template?
I use the same method Shauna provided -- it's about as out-of-the-box as you
can get and thankfully none of your Normal.dot(m) customizations are included, such as custom toolbars. I found this "trick" after working on a project with Bill Coan. I accidentally included toolbar customizations in my global template which resulted in removing toolbar customizations in his global template. Whoops! I also use it when I want to make sure I'm working with all of the defaults, such as checking the default style definitions. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I was speaking theoretically and (obviously) without empirical knowledge. To begin with, I don't often create templates. Moreover, I never modify the formatting of Normal.dot (I customize it with toolbar buttons and AutoText and macros and the like, but I don't change the font, page layout, style definitions, etc.) because I want to keep it pristine as a reference for the out-of-the-box style definitions. "Shauna Kelly" wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne, Terry I have to say that this is not my experience. If I set Normal style in Normal.dot to be, say, 8pt Arial Magenta, and if (Word 2003 here), in the Templates dialog, I select the Template radio button and create a new Template, then Word will create my new template with the out-of-the-box settings and Normal style will be TNR 12. I conclude that, in this case, Word is not creating my new template on normal.dot, but is instead building it straight from its default settings stored in the binary. |
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How do you create a template without using an existing template?
That's useful knowledge, which I shall try to tuck away. Thanks.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Beth Melton" wrote in message ... I use the same method Shauna provided -- it's about as out-of-the-box as you can get and thankfully none of your Normal.dot(m) customizations are included, such as custom toolbars. I found this "trick" after working on a project with Bill Coan. I accidentally included toolbar customizations in my global template which resulted in removing toolbar customizations in his global template. Whoops! I also use it when I want to make sure I'm working with all of the defaults, such as checking the default style definitions. Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I was speaking theoretically and (obviously) without empirical knowledge. To begin with, I don't often create templates. Moreover, I never modify the formatting of Normal.dot (I customize it with toolbar buttons and AutoText and macros and the like, but I don't change the font, page layout, style definitions, etc.) because I want to keep it pristine as a reference for the out-of-the-box style definitions. "Shauna Kelly" wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne, Terry I have to say that this is not my experience. If I set Normal style in Normal.dot to be, say, 8pt Arial Magenta, and if (Word 2003 here), in the Templates dialog, I select the Template radio button and create a new Template, then Word will create my new template with the out-of-the-box settings and Normal style will be TNR 12. I conclude that, in this case, Word is not creating my new template on normal.dot, but is instead building it straight from its default settings stored in the binary. |
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