Opening Templates in Word not Internet Explorer

[Jamie]

I am using Word 2003. We have hundreds of templates that we are making
accessible through our agency's intranet. The templates open up in Internet
Explorer. I would like them to open up in Word. I know that you can go
through Folder Options, File Types, click on the doc extention, click on the
Advanced button and uncheck the Browse in same window.

This would work great if I only had a few computers that needed to be
changed. However, we have hundreds. Is there a macro I can include with
each template that will instruct the template to open in Word and not
Internet Explorer?

Thanks!

 

[Corkie]

Hello group. I am using Word 2000. I like Word and use it quite a bit for
minutes of meetings, making a newsletter and making tables and columns and
schedules. However, when I get an inportant email from one of my
organizations with an attachment that I need to save to my folders in Word,
they are never in my Word folders under Word. I find them under my Start, My
Documents. I try to open them and then save to my folders under Word using
Save As, but they will not save there. How can I get all my important
documents that are sent to me under my Word files in Word 2000, and not in
the My Documents under my Start, My Documents? Thanks for your replies,
Corkie in Canada

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

"My Documents" is the normal place to store your documents. If you
think the best way to group your documents is by the program they work
with, then you should simply create a folder you call "Word" inside
your My Documents. But your computer already knows that a Word
document goes with Word, so it might be more useful to create folders
inside My Documents for things like Schoolwork, Organizations,
Letters, Money Matters, Hobbies, etc.

You definitely shouldn't be saving documents in the folder where your
computer keeps the Word program, because that's a part of your
computer that's set aside for holding your programs, not your data.

 

[Corkie]

Hello Peter and thanks for your reply. I am sorry I thought I was clear. I
am saving my Word documents under My Documents and I do have lots of folders
and files in my Word, but they are all under My Documents. However it;s just
when I transfer from Email that they go to another My Documents which I can
only find under the Start, My Doc, etc. I do not understand why this happens.
I suspect I somehow have to My Doc but cannot seem to see where. This My Doc
under Start, My Doc seems to have everything in it, such as my Excel, my
Power Points, my anything that was downloaded in my computer. My Word My
Documents just has my documents I have created under Word in it. Not the
Excel, Power Points, my other items. So I am puzzelled about this.

 

[Sally B]

You might try a GPO to change the default behavior

 

[Jamie]

Hi Sally, thanks for your response. I'm afraid I don't know what GPO stands
for - sorry. Can you provide more information? Thanks.

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

I don't think saving from email is a Word problem, and I don't know
how Excel and PowerPoint handle their default save locations, but you
can change those for anything in Office.

But it seems odd that there could be more than one My Computer -- are
there several Users of your computer? Each User has their own My
Documents, but your different passwords should keep you from using
each other's..