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settings wont appear in the created template
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I've been trying to get the template that i created in word 03 to work. At the moment, i have it saved in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\STARTUP hoping that everytime i open up a new document, it will always load up my own template(for company letter). This works fine. What doesn't work is that in the template - company_letter.dot, i have ensure that the font is set to Garamond, size:12, indentation, page setup, my own toolbars and all the other stuffs i need to make it a proper letter. I have it saved. When i open a new word document, i can see it's company_letter template that gets loaded up but all settings i set before aren't there in the new document except for the toolbar i created. Are there anything i missed out here? or do i need a macro to do this? Thank you in advance |
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A template placed in the Startup folder provides only macros, toolbars,
AutoText, and other UI items; it does not provide styles or formatting; see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...latesStore.htm. You can make a shortcut to start Word with a document based on a specific template, but the New button will still create a new document based on Normal.dot. You would do better to replace the New button with one representing the FileNewDialog command and educate users to select the company letter template from the New dialog. This will create a document based on that template and containing all its styles and formatting as well as the custom toolbars. -- 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. "Associates" wrote in message ... Hi, I've been trying to get the template that i created in word 03 to work. At the moment, i have it saved in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\STARTUP hoping that everytime i open up a new document, it will always load up my own template(for company letter). This works fine. What doesn't work is that in the template - company_letter.dot, i have ensure that the font is set to Garamond, size:12, indentation, page setup, my own toolbars and all the other stuffs i need to make it a proper letter. I have it saved. When i open a new word document, i can see it's company_letter template that gets loaded up but all settings i set before aren't there in the new document except for the toolbar i created. Are there anything i missed out here? or do i need a macro to do this? Thank you in advance |
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Thank you for your reply.
would do better to replace the New button with one representing the FileNewDialog command and educate users to select the company letter template from the New dialog. This will create a document based on that template and containing all its styles and formatting as well as the custom toolbars. I like the idea above stated by you. However, would it be possible if i do the following. say i have created a template called mycompany.dot. In this template (main template i call), there is a new toolbar designed for the company. In the toolbar, we have mycompany_coverfax, mycompany_letter listed in the menu. All of these are macros. So when a user opens up the template - mycompany, they can see the toolbar and they can choose to open whether coverfax or letter. Once they made the selection to open coverfax, the coverfax document comes up and the mycompany document is closed. This is my initial intention but i need your advise on this. If this is ok, i need to ask how i would write codes for macros to open up coverfax template or letter template. Thank you in advance "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: A template placed in the Startup folder provides only macros, toolbars, AutoText, and other UI items; it does not provide styles or formatting; see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...latesStore.htm. You can make a shortcut to start Word with a document based on a specific template, but the New button will still create a new document based on Normal.dot. You would do better to replace the New button with one representing the FileNewDialog command and educate users to select the company letter template from the New dialog. This will create a document based on that template and containing all its styles and formatting as well as the custom toolbars. -- 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. "Associates" wrote in message ... Hi, I've been trying to get the template that i created in word 03 to work. At the moment, i have it saved in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\STARTUP hoping that everytime i open up a new document, it will always load up my own template(for company letter). This works fine. What doesn't work is that in the template - company_letter.dot, i have ensure that the font is set to Garamond, size:12, indentation, page setup, my own toolbars and all the other stuffs i need to make it a proper letter. I have it saved. When i open a new word document, i can see it's company_letter template that gets loaded up but all settings i set before aren't there in the new document except for the toolbar i created. Are there anything i missed out here? or do i need a macro to do this? Thank you in advance |
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That would be possible, but it is re-inventing the wheel, when the dialog
Suzanne suggested already offers that. However use your template as a global template to make the toolbar available to all documents. The code for each type of document would be similar to Documents.Add Template:="D:\Word Templates\Letter Heads\Letter.dot" insert your own path and template name(s) -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Associates wrote: Thank you for your reply. would do better to replace the New button with one representing the FileNewDialog command and educate users to select the company letter template from the New dialog. This will create a document based on that template and containing all its styles and formatting as well as the custom toolbars. I like the idea above stated by you. However, would it be possible if i do the following. say i have created a template called mycompany.dot. In this template (main template i call), there is a new toolbar designed for the company. In the toolbar, we have mycompany_coverfax, mycompany_letter listed in the menu. All of these are macros. So when a user opens up the template - mycompany, they can see the toolbar and they can choose to open whether coverfax or letter. Once they made the selection to open coverfax, the coverfax document comes up and the mycompany document is closed. This is my initial intention but i need your advise on this. If this is ok, i need to ask how i would write codes for macros to open up coverfax template or letter template. Thank you in advance "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: A template placed in the Startup folder provides only macros, toolbars, AutoText, and other UI items; it does not provide styles or formatting; see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...latesStore.htm. You can make a shortcut to start Word with a document based on a specific template, but the New button will still create a new document based on Normal.dot. You would do better to replace the New button with one representing the FileNewDialog command and educate users to select the company letter template from the New dialog. This will create a document based on that template and containing all its styles and formatting as well as the custom toolbars. -- 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. "Associates" wrote in message ... Hi, I've been trying to get the template that i created in word 03 to work. At the moment, i have it saved in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\STARTUP hoping that everytime i open up a new document, it will always load up my own template(for company letter). This works fine. What doesn't work is that in the template - company_letter.dot, i have ensure that the font is set to Garamond, size:12, indentation, page setup, my own toolbars and all the other stuffs i need to make it a proper letter. I have it saved. When i open a new word document, i can see it's company_letter template that gets loaded up but all settings i set before aren't there in the new document except for the toolbar i created. Are there anything i missed out here? or do i need a macro to do this? Thank you in advance |
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Right. He's already got the template installed as a global template, so that
part is taken care of. The toolbar could equally well be added to Normal.dot, but in a corporate environment, a global add-in is more appropriate. -- 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. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... That would be possible, but it is re-inventing the wheel, when the dialog Suzanne suggested already offers that. However use your template as a global template to make the toolbar available to all documents. The code for each type of document would be similar to Documents.Add Template:="D:\Word Templates\Letter Heads\Letter.dot" insert your own path and template name(s) -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Associates wrote: Thank you for your reply. would do better to replace the New button with one representing the FileNewDialog command and educate users to select the company letter template from the New dialog. This will create a document based on that template and containing all its styles and formatting as well as the custom toolbars. I like the idea above stated by you. However, would it be possible if i do the following. say i have created a template called mycompany.dot. In this template (main template i call), there is a new toolbar designed for the company. In the toolbar, we have mycompany_coverfax, mycompany_letter listed in the menu. All of these are macros. So when a user opens up the template - mycompany, they can see the toolbar and they can choose to open whether coverfax or letter. Once they made the selection to open coverfax, the coverfax document comes up and the mycompany document is closed. This is my initial intention but i need your advise on this. If this is ok, i need to ask how i would write codes for macros to open up coverfax template or letter template. Thank you in advance "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: A template placed in the Startup folder provides only macros, toolbars, AutoText, and other UI items; it does not provide styles or formatting; see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...latesStore.htm. You can make a shortcut to start Word with a document based on a specific template, but the New button will still create a new document based on Normal.dot. You would do better to replace the New button with one representing the FileNewDialog command and educate users to select the company letter template from the New dialog. This will create a document based on that template and containing all its styles and formatting as well as the custom toolbars. -- 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. "Associates" wrote in message ... Hi, I've been trying to get the template that i created in word 03 to work. At the moment, i have it saved in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\STARTUP hoping that everytime i open up a new document, it will always load up my own template(for company letter). This works fine. What doesn't work is that in the template - company_letter.dot, i have ensure that the font is set to Garamond, size:12, indentation, page setup, my own toolbars and all the other stuffs i need to make it a proper letter. I have it saved. When i open a new word document, i can see it's company_letter template that gets loaded up but all settings i set before aren't there in the new document except for the toolbar i created. Are there anything i missed out here? or do i need a macro to do this? Thank you in advance |
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settings wont appear in the created template
Thank you both Suzanne and Graham for your replies.
I have executed the code you gave, Graham, and it works well. Yes, you're right, Suzanne. i've got the template as global already. The other problem i'm facing here now is I don't know how to set the font to Garamond for the whole document (you know - after a new document is open based on the template, mycompany). Because at the moment, i set the font from Times New Roman(by default) to Garamond, it only applies to the line. But if i press enter key once or twice to get me to the next line, the font changed back to Times New Roman. Now i know that this can be done through "start, all programs , microsoft office, microsoft office tools, microsoft language settings". Can this be done through the code? because i have about 8 PCs that i'd like to implement this for our company. Thank you in advance "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Right. He's already got the template installed as a global template, so that part is taken care of. The toolbar could equally well be added to Normal.dot, but in a corporate environment, a global add-in is more appropriate. -- 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. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... That would be possible, but it is re-inventing the wheel, when the dialog Suzanne suggested already offers that. However use your template as a global template to make the toolbar available to all documents. The code for each type of document would be similar to Documents.Add Template:="D:\Word Templates\Letter Heads\Letter.dot" insert your own path and template name(s) -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Associates wrote: Thank you for your reply. would do better to replace the New button with one representing the FileNewDialog command and educate users to select the company letter template from the New dialog. This will create a document based on that template and containing all its styles and formatting as well as the custom toolbars. I like the idea above stated by you. However, would it be possible if i do the following. say i have created a template called mycompany.dot. In this template (main template i call), there is a new toolbar designed for the company. In the toolbar, we have mycompany_coverfax, mycompany_letter listed in the menu. All of these are macros. So when a user opens up the template - mycompany, they can see the toolbar and they can choose to open whether coverfax or letter. Once they made the selection to open coverfax, the coverfax document comes up and the mycompany document is closed. This is my initial intention but i need your advise on this. If this is ok, i need to ask how i would write codes for macros to open up coverfax template or letter template. Thank you in advance "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: A template placed in the Startup folder provides only macros, toolbars, AutoText, and other UI items; it does not provide styles or formatting; see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...latesStore.htm. You can make a shortcut to start Word with a document based on a specific template, but the New button will still create a new document based on Normal.dot. You would do better to replace the New button with one representing the FileNewDialog command and educate users to select the company letter template from the New dialog. This will create a document based on that template and containing all its styles and formatting as well as the custom toolbars. -- 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. "Associates" wrote in message ... Hi, I've been trying to get the template that i created in word 03 to work. At the moment, i have it saved in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\STARTUP hoping that everytime i open up a new document, it will always load up my own template(for company letter). This works fine. What doesn't work is that in the template - company_letter.dot, i have ensure that the font is set to Garamond, size:12, indentation, page setup, my own toolbars and all the other stuffs i need to make it a proper letter. I have it saved. When i open a new word document, i can see it's company_letter template that gets loaded up but all settings i set before aren't there in the new document except for the toolbar i created. Are there anything i missed out here? or do i need a macro to do this? Thank you in advance |
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if I'm understanding the way this is going to work, you aren't going to have
documents based on mycompany.dot, which is your global template. The documents will be based on mycompany_coverfax.dot, mycompany_letter.dot, and so on. These document templates should have Garamond selected as the default font, that is, the font of the Normal style. You can change the default font of Normal.dot to Garamond if you like, but since your new document based on Normal.dot is just a way station, not a terminus, it really doesn't matter there. -- 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. "Associates" wrote in message ... Thank you both Suzanne and Graham for your replies. I have executed the code you gave, Graham, and it works well. Yes, you're right, Suzanne. i've got the template as global already. The other problem i'm facing here now is I don't know how to set the font to Garamond for the whole document (you know - after a new document is open based on the template, mycompany). Because at the moment, i set the font from Times New Roman(by default) to Garamond, it only applies to the line. But if i press enter key once or twice to get me to the next line, the font changed back to Times New Roman. Now i know that this can be done through "start, all programs , microsoft office, microsoft office tools, microsoft language settings". Can this be done through the code? because i have about 8 PCs that i'd like to implement this for our company. Thank you in advance "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Right. He's already got the template installed as a global template, so that part is taken care of. The toolbar could equally well be added to Normal.dot, but in a corporate environment, a global add-in is more appropriate. -- 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. "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... That would be possible, but it is re-inventing the wheel, when the dialog Suzanne suggested already offers that. However use your template as a global template to make the toolbar available to all documents. The code for each type of document would be similar to Documents.Add Template:="D:\Word Templates\Letter Heads\Letter.dot" insert your own path and template name(s) -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Associates wrote: Thank you for your reply. would do better to replace the New button with one representing the FileNewDialog command and educate users to select the company letter template from the New dialog. This will create a document based on that template and containing all its styles and formatting as well as the custom toolbars. I like the idea above stated by you. However, would it be possible if i do the following. say i have created a template called mycompany.dot. In this template (main template i call), there is a new toolbar designed for the company. In the toolbar, we have mycompany_coverfax, mycompany_letter listed in the menu. All of these are macros. So when a user opens up the template - mycompany, they can see the toolbar and they can choose to open whether coverfax or letter. Once they made the selection to open coverfax, the coverfax document comes up and the mycompany document is closed. This is my initial intention but i need your advise on this. If this is ok, i need to ask how i would write codes for macros to open up coverfax template or letter template. Thank you in advance "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: A template placed in the Startup folder provides only macros, toolbars, AutoText, and other UI items; it does not provide styles or formatting; see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...latesStore.htm. You can make a shortcut to start Word with a document based on a specific template, but the New button will still create a new document based on Normal.dot. You would do better to replace the New button with one representing the FileNewDialog command and educate users to select the company letter template from the New dialog. This will create a document based on that template and containing all its styles and formatting as well as the custom toolbars. -- 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. "Associates" wrote in message ... Hi, I've been trying to get the template that i created in word 03 to work. At the moment, i have it saved in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\STARTUP hoping that everytime i open up a new document, it will always load up my own template(for company letter). This works fine. What doesn't work is that in the template - company_letter.dot, i have ensure that the font is set to Garamond, size:12, indentation, page setup, my own toolbars and all the other stuffs i need to make it a proper letter. I have it saved. When i open a new word document, i can see it's company_letter template that gets loaded up but all settings i set before aren't there in the new document except for the toolbar i created. Are there anything i missed out here? or do i need a macro to do this? Thank you in advance |
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