Recently used templates

[Guest]

How can I increase the number of templates displayed in the recently used
templates list in word 2003?

 

[Guest]

Dave,

When you use a template to create a new document, that template appears
under the Recently used templates category.

Until you actually use a template to create a new document, it will not
appear under the Recently used templates category.

For example, create two separate documents from two different templates.

After you use the template, it will appear in the Task Pane under Recently
used templates.

Kimberly Pittmon

 

[Guest]

When the templates are used the list grows to a total of 4 templates. Any
further templates used after that overwrite the oldest template in the list.

How can I extend this number to be say 8 or nine templates listed in the
recently used templates rather than 4? The user who requires this extended
has a large number of templates that she uses to create different documents
as part of her job. The recently used template list provides an easy way to
get to these.

There used to be a registry key that was added for Office XP but I no longer
have that information. I believe it was posted in a newsgroup similar to this
one at least 2 years ago.

 

[Graham Mayor]

The better plan would be to turn off the startup task pane and not use it at
all
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/ShowTaskPane.htm
Then create a macro to display the far more useful file new dialog

Sub FileNew()
Dialogs(wdDialogFileNew).Show
End Sub

and replace the File New command with the File New... command on the toolbar
(which will call the above macro) or drag the FileNewDialog command (tools >
customise> commands > all commands) to the toolbar and use that to pop up
the dialog. This will then display *all* installed templates.

You can create your own tabs on the file > open menu by making sub folders
to the Workgroup and/or User template folders. If these sub folders have the
same names at each location, then templates placed in either will appear
under the same tab.

Note: The tabs will only appear if the folders so named actually contain
templates. If you want to ensure that personal templates appear under the
standard tab names, then create sub folders with names that match the tab
names.

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[Guest]

Thanks Graham
I hadn't been thinking along those lines but that should do the job. I
changed a registry setting in Word 2002 for this user to accomplish her
wishes about 2 years ago when we upgraded to office XP.
If anyone knows what the registry setting is for Word 2003 (or if it
exists) I would be grateful. I must admit I have forgotten how I did it in
Word 2002 and have lost the reg key if I wrote it down.
Otherwise I will work with Graham's ideas to achieve the same aim in a
different way.