custom templates with a word doc

[Guest]

Hi
i would like to now if its possible to change the file location for a
customer template - with a word document - Due to a server change - the file
location is no longer valid and causes a 2 min deley in opening word docs -
if i change the location to normal.dot - the file opens with seconds

 

[Stefan Blom]

For the affected document(s), change the attached template via
Tools>Templates and Add-Ins.

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[Guest]

Hi Stefan

Thanks for the responce that is the way i know how to do it -
But there two many documents to go it 2 - Can that not be done without going
in the document - i.e on a mass scale

Naveed

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Yes, and no. There is no simple way, that I know of.
Put a copy of your workgroup templates folder on each local disk. This can
be a part of the user network login script (updates the workgroup templates
folder locally). Set that local folder as the workgroup templates folder.
See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/DistributeMacros.htm for a
discussion of the hows and whys of doing this. Even though the article is
about macros, it is also about templates.
Next log off the network.
Then open and reattach the documents to the local templates. (When you are
logged off the network, the waiting time is far less.)

You can create a macro to do this (for instance overnight). The following
link is to code that goes through every file in a directory to do a find and
replace. It may get you started.
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/BatchFR.htm
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