remove tabs from Word template dialog?

[Guest]

I modified the user templates file location (in Word 2000-2002 on several
computers) to a networked drive. Now the templates dialog ("File>New") shows
MANY tabs, incl. many "General" tabs. How do I remove the unwanted tabs, and
keep only those specified by the folders in the correct template location?

 

[Jezebel]

Clean up the folders in the locations Word looks in -- each tab represents a
sub-folder from one of those locations. If you don't want 'em, delete 'em.

 

[Guest]

How do I know where the folders are? The tools>options>file locations tab
only shows the path I selected. I can probably find the default path, but
some computers have MANY tabs, I don't know where they came from.

 

[Jezebel]

They all exist as folders on your computer, so you can simply use Search to
find them. In addition: check Tools > Options > File Locations. Word will be
using both the 'User templates' and 'Workgroup templates' folders; and later
versions seem to be doing fancy things under ...program files\Microsoft
Office\... also.

 

[Guest]

I searched C: for 3 different folders in the templates dialog "mail merge,"
"legal pleadings," and of course "general." All the files & folders found
were something other than the templates available on these tabs. Program
files/MSOffice (and the subfolders Office and Office10) also don't appear to
have anything (no templates folder, or files with those names...) Any other
ideas?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See “OFF2000: How Office 2000 Manages Templates†at
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=240216 (this applies to more recent
versions as well).

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

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