I modified the user templates file location (in Word 2000-2002 on several
computers) to a networked drive. Now the templates dialog ("FileNew") shows
MANY tabs, incl. many "General" tabs. How do I remove the unwanted tabs, and
keep only those specified by the folders in the correct template location?

Clean up the folders in the locations Word looks in -- each tab represents a
sub-folder from one of those locations. If you don't want 'em, delete 'em.



"Lori H" wrote in message
...
I modified the user templates file location (in Word 2000-2002 on several
computers) to a networked drive. Now the templates dialog ("FileNew")
shows
MANY tabs, incl. many "General" tabs. How do I remove the unwanted tabs,
and
keep only those specified by the folders in the correct template location?

How do I know where the folders are? The toolsoptionsfile locations tab
only shows the path I selected. I can probably find the default path, but
some computers have MANY tabs, I don't know where they came from.

"Jezebel" wrote:

Clean up the folders in the locations Word looks in -- each tab represents a
sub-folder from one of those locations. If you don't want 'em, delete 'em.



"Lori H" wrote in message
...
I modified the user templates file location (in Word 2000-2002 on several
computers) to a networked drive. Now the templates dialog ("FileNew")
shows
MANY tabs, incl. many "General" tabs. How do I remove the unwanted tabs,
and
keep only those specified by the folders in the correct template location?

They all exist as folders on your computer, so you can simply use Search to
find them. In addition: check Tools Options File Locations. Word will be
using both the 'User templates' and 'Workgroup templates' folders; and later
versions seem to be doing fancy things under ...program files\Microsoft
Office\... also.




"Lori H" wrote in message
...
How do I know where the folders are? The toolsoptionsfile locations tab
only shows the path I selected. I can probably find the default path, but
some computers have MANY tabs, I don't know where they came from.

"Jezebel" wrote:

Clean up the folders in the locations Word looks in -- each tab
represents a
sub-folder from one of those locations. If you don't want 'em, delete
'em.



"Lori H" wrote in message
...
I modified the user templates file location (in Word 2000-2002 on
several
computers) to a networked drive. Now the templates dialog
("FileNew")
shows
MANY tabs, incl. many "General" tabs. How do I remove the unwanted
tabs,
and
keep only those specified by the folders in the correct template
location?

I searched C: for 3 different folders in the templates dialog "mail merge,"
"legal pleadings," and of course "general." All the files & folders found
were something other than the templates available on these tabs. Program
files/MSOffice (and the subfolders Office and Office10) also don't appear to
have anything (no templates folder, or files with those names...) Any other
ideas?

"Jezebel" wrote:

They all exist as folders on your computer, so you can simply use Search to
find them. In addition: check Tools Options File Locations. Word will be
using both the 'User templates' and 'Workgroup templates' folders; and later
versions seem to be doing fancy things under ...program files\Microsoft
Office\... also.




"Lori H" wrote in message
...
How do I know where the folders are? The toolsoptionsfile locations tab
only shows the path I selected. I can probably find the default path, but
some computers have MANY tabs, I don't know where they came from.

"Jezebel" wrote:

Clean up the folders in the locations Word looks in -- each tab
represents a
sub-folder from one of those locations. If you don't want 'em, delete
'em.



"Lori H" wrote in message
...
I modified the user templates file location (in Word 2000-2002 on
several
computers) to a networked drive. Now the templates dialog
("FileNew")
shows
MANY tabs, incl. many "General" tabs. How do I remove the unwanted
tabs,
and
keep only those specified by the folders in the correct template
location?

See €œOFF2000: How Office 2000 Manages Templates€� at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=240216 (this applies to more recent
versions as well).

--
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.

"Lori H" wrote in message
...
I searched C: for 3 different folders in the templates dialog "mail
merge,"
"legal pleadings," and of course "general." All the files & folders found
were something other than the templates available on these tabs. Program
files/MSOffice (and the subfolders Office and Office10) also don't appear
to
have anything (no templates folder, or files with those names...) Any
other
ideas?

"Jezebel" wrote:

They all exist as folders on your computer, so you can simply use Search
to
find them. In addition: check Tools Options File Locations. Word
will be
using both the 'User templates' and 'Workgroup templates' folders; and
later
versions seem to be doing fancy things under ...program files\Microsoft
Office\... also.




"Lori H" wrote in message
...
How do I know where the folders are? The toolsoptionsfile locations
tab
only shows the path I selected. I can probably find the default path,
but
some computers have MANY tabs, I don't know where they came from.

"Jezebel" wrote:

Clean up the folders in the locations Word looks in -- each tab
represents a
sub-folder from one of those locations. If you don't want 'em,
delete
'em.



"Lori H" wrote in message
...
I modified the user templates file location (in Word 2000-2002 on
several
computers) to a networked drive. Now the templates dialog
("FileNew")
shows
MANY tabs, incl. many "General" tabs. How do I remove the
unwanted
tabs,
and
keep only those specified by the folders in the correct template
location?