How to save a word document without over-writing the template?

[Guest]

Hi,

can anyone out there, please help me! I would like to create a template that
when you click on 'Save', it will automatically direct you to 'Save As' as a
word document, '.doc' instead of '.dot'. As I don't want it to save on the
template and destroy the template.

Is there a way or some how programming to set this function on a template?

Please help,
wel

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you have created a true template (.dot file) and are using it correctly,
this is exactly what you will get. You don't *open* the template; you create
a new document based on it by selecting the template in the File New dialog;
to make this possible, you must save the template in Word's user templates
folder. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/CreateATemplatePart1.htm.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you have created a true template (.dot file) and are using it correctly,
this is exactly what you will get. You don't *open* the template; you create
a new document based on it by selecting the template in the File New dialog;
to make this possible, you must save the template in Word's user templates
folder. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/CreateATemplatePart1.htm.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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all may benefit.

 

[Guest]

Try this...open the file properties for that file. Check the "read only"
attribute and then "apply". This forces the user to save the file every time
with a new file name. this protects the original from being changed. Hope
this helps.

 

[Guest]

Try this...open the file properties for that file. Check the "read only"
attribute and then "apply". This forces the user to save the file every time
with a new file name. this protects the original from being changed. Hope
this helps.

 

[Guest]

hi Suzanne,

thanks for your link.

If you have created a true template (.dot file) and are using it correctly,
this is exactly what you will get. You don't *open* the template; you create
a new document based on it by selecting the template in the File New dialog;
to make this possible, you must save the template in Word's user templates
folder. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/CreateATemplatePart1.htm.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

 

[Guest]

hi Suzanne,

thanks for your link.

If you have created a true template (.dot file) and are using it correctly,
this is exactly what you will get. You don't *open* the template; you create
a new document based on it by selecting the template in the File New dialog;
to make this possible, you must save the template in Word's user templates
folder. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/CreateATemplatePart1.htm.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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all may benefit.

 

[Guest]

hi jorge,

thanks for your great help!

Try this...open the file properties for that file. Check the "read only"
attribute and then "apply". This forces the user to save the file every time
with a new file name. this protects the original from being changed. Hope
this helps.

 

[Guest]

hi jorge,

thanks for your great help!

Try this...open the file properties for that file. Check the "read only"
attribute and then "apply". This forces the user to save the file every time
with a new file name. this protects the original from being changed. Hope
this helps.

 

[Guest]

Your welcome. Did it work? Cuz I am a novices novice...I just happen to learn
that "read only" thing that day.

Good luck...Jorge

 

[Guest]

Your welcome. Did it work? Cuz I am a novices novice...I just happen to learn
that "read only" thing that day.

Good luck...Jorge

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, although your solution will work, it is not really the correct way to
use a template.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, although your solution will work, it is not really the correct way to
use a template.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.