New Template

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Robert H. Brevig

I am using Word 2002. When I go New to create a new document, although the
word New is followed by 3 dots, I am not offered any further options before
a new page is generated.
If I want to select a particular template for that page, how would I do
that?

TIA
Bob
 
Hi Robert,

The new document task pain should open at that point. I am not sure why it
does not in your case, but I did not mis-spell the fifth word in the first
sentence.

I suggest that you select Customize from the Tools menu and then select the
All Commands category on the Commands tab of the Customize dialog and then
locate the File New Dialog command from the list of commands and left click
on it and drag it onto a toolbar.

Clicking on that item will then take you straight to the templates dialog.
In my case, I have copied and pasted the new blank document icon to that
command on the toolbar, then edited the icon so that it appears to have
lines of text on the page to differentiate it from the new blank document
button.

Far less painful!

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Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
 
Hi, Bob,

The "official" New... menu item just opens the New Document task pane
if it isn't already visible. On the task pane, you have to click
"General Templates" to get the dialog for selecting your template.

Frankly, this is a task *pain*, so lots of people get rid of the
original menu item and substitute the old one. Go read
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AsgnCmdOrMacroToToolbar.htm to
find out how to use the Tools > Customize dialog in general.

Open that dialog. For this specific job, first drag the New... menu
item off the menu and deep-six it. In the dialog, select "All
Commands" on the left. Drag "FileNewDialog" from the right column onto
the File menu in its place. The name that shows up there is
"Other...", but you can right-click it and change it to "&New...".
(The ampersand makes the N underlined and makes it the accelerator key
for the command.)
 
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