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Template, I think
W2k, Word 2003
I am scanning hundreds of pages of 50 year old meeting minutes, typed on various typewriters with various typefaces, various numbering schemes, etc. I am then sollecting an entire year worth of individual documents and creating a new file for each year. I would like to have something (I think a Template, but I'm not sure if that's the best approach) so that it would include, for starters, margins specific to that type of document, one typeface, uniiform numbering styles, modified heading styles and a few other styles just for that group of docs. Is this the sort of thing a template does? One of the most important things I need is to make the date of each meeting , located beneath the title for each week's meeting, formatted with a style so that it is a TOC1 (or Level 1--I'm not sure which is the most important) and can be used to create a Table of Contents. Can such a style be a part of this proposed template, and be available in the Styles and Formatting Task Pane, without having to create it when I get to each document. This, I believe, involves changing Heading 1 style (which is currently applied to the Title) to some other Heading style so it won't automatically take precedence over my date style. Hope this is clear. Thanks |
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Yes, this is what templates do. You might want to see these articles:
Creating a Template - The Basics (Part I) http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart1.htm Creating a Template (Part II) http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart2.htm What do Templates and Add-ins store? http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...latesStore.htm -- 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. "Nelson Moffat" wrote in message ... W2k, Word 2003 I am scanning hundreds of pages of 50 year old meeting minutes, typed on various typewriters with various typefaces, various numbering schemes, etc. I am then sollecting an entire year worth of individual documents and creating a new file for each year. I would like to have something (I think a Template, but I'm not sure if that's the best approach) so that it would include, for starters, margins specific to that type of document, one typeface, uniiform numbering styles, modified heading styles and a few other styles just for that group of docs. Is this the sort of thing a template does? One of the most important things I need is to make the date of each meeting , located beneath the title for each week's meeting, formatted with a style so that it is a TOC1 (or Level 1--I'm not sure which is the most important) and can be used to create a Table of Contents. Can such a style be a part of this proposed template, and be available in the Styles and Formatting Task Pane, without having to create it when I get to each document. This, I believe, involves changing Heading 1 style (which is currently applied to the Title) to some other Heading style so it won't automatically take precedence over my date style. Hope this is clear. Thanks |
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I remain very confused about actually using templates. I have read ,
step by step, McGhie's CreateATemplate, created a new template starting with Normal.dot but modifying almost everything to which he referred, and saved it as "XYZ".dot Now I have a bunch of OCR'd docs in Word, based on the normal.dot, and about which I've submitted several posts. If I File/Open(New..)/"XYZ.dot, a blank document based on my new template (I think) opens. If I then paste a copy of text from one of the OCR'd docs (based on Normal.dot), I'd expect it to take on the attributes of the new template, but it doesn't. I must be missing something. Two questions: How do I apply a template to an existing document, and How do I verify what template I am seeing, short of remembering what font I used in the new template? Thanks On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 17:42:39 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Yes, this is what templates do. You might want to see these articles: Creating a Template - The Basics (Part I) http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart1.htm Creating a Template (Part II) http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart2.htm What do Templates and Add-ins store? http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...latesStore.htm |
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Further, on my post above, I now find that the "XYZ.dot" file was
saved in C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates, rather than the location in Tools\Options which is C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates. I didn't direct it to that file. It was a .dot file and that's where Word decided to save it. Now, should I move the new "XYZ.dot" file to where Tools\Options says it should be, or change the default location for templates to be saved?? On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 17:42:39 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Yes, this is what templates do. You might want to see these articles: Creating a Template - The Basics (Part I) http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart1.htm Creating a Template (Part II) http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart2.htm What do Templates and Add-ins store? http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...latesStore.htm |
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The default path for user templates in Word is C:\Documents and
Settings\profile name\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates. The templates saved in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates are the installed templates (those that ship with Word). -- 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. "Nelson Moffat" wrote in message ... Further, on my post above, I now find that the "XYZ.dot" file was saved in C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates, rather than the location in Tools\Options which is C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates. I didn't direct it to that file. It was a .dot file and that's where Word decided to save it. Now, should I move the new "XYZ.dot" file to where Tools\Options says it should be, or change the default location for templates to be saved?? On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 17:42:39 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Yes, this is what templates do. You might want to see these articles: Creating a Template - The Basics (Part I) http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart1.htm Creating a Template (Part II) http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart2.htm What do Templates and Add-ins store? http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...latesStore.htm |
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You may need to apply your styles to the text in the document; if they are
already formatted with the defined styles, Ctrl+A (Select All), Ctrl+Q (Reset Para), and Ctrl+Spacebar (Reset Char). -- 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. "Nelson Moffat" wrote in message ... I remain very confused about actually using templates. I have read , step by step, McGhie's CreateATemplate, created a new template starting with Normal.dot but modifying almost everything to which he referred, and saved it as "XYZ".dot Now I have a bunch of OCR'd docs in Word, based on the normal.dot, and about which I've submitted several posts. If I File/Open(New..)/"XYZ.dot, a blank document based on my new template (I think) opens. If I then paste a copy of text from one of the OCR'd docs (based on Normal.dot), I'd expect it to take on the attributes of the new template, but it doesn't. I must be missing something. Two questions: How do I apply a template to an existing document, and How do I verify what template I am seeing, short of remembering what font I used in the new template? Thanks On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 17:42:39 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Yes, this is what templates do. You might want to see these articles: Creating a Template - The Basics (Part I) http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart1.htm Creating a Template (Part II) http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart2.htm What do Templates and Add-ins store? http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...latesStore.htm |
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