[HWhite]

I have thousands of Word documents on a file server that are taking too long
to load when opening in Word 2003. After reading through the discussion
groups, I've confirmed that the document template listed in the "templates
and add-ins" field of each document are pointing to a location that no longer
exists, and was on a network share. It is taking our users a minute to two
minutes to open each of these documents.

I need a solution that does one of the following...

1. Updates each document with the new location of the template.
(\\oldserver\templates\templatename.dot to
\\newserver\templates\templatename.dot)
2. Erases the entry in the templates and add-ins field altogether (will
this cause issues?)
3. Reduce or eliminate the time-out setting for searching for the template.

I really need a solution to this quickly, so hopefully somebody out there
can help me. Also, I don't know VBA, so if your solution involves running
scripts, I'll need a little extra hand-holding.

Thanks very much.