settings wont appear in the created template

[Guest]

Hi,

I've been trying to get the template that i created in word 03 to work. At
the moment, i have it saved in C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\OFFICE11\STARTUP hoping that everytime i open up a new document, it
will always load up my own template(for company letter). This works fine.
What doesn't work is that in the template - company_letter.dot, i have ensure
that the font is set to Garamond, size:12, indentation, page setup, my own
toolbars and all the other stuffs i need to make it a proper letter. I have
it saved. When i open a new word document, i can see it's company_letter
template that gets loaded up but all settings i set before aren't there in
the new document except for the toolbar i created.

Are there anything i missed out here? or do i need a macro to do this?

Thank you in advance

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

A template placed in the Startup folder provides only macros, toolbars,
AutoText, and other UI items; it does not provide styles or formatting; see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/WhatTemplatesStore.htm. You can make
a shortcut to start Word with a document based on a specific template, but
the New button will still create a new document based on Normal.dot. You
would do better to replace the New button with one representing the
FileNewDialog command and educate users to select the company letter
template from the New dialog. This will create a document based on that
template and containing all its styles and formatting as well as the custom
toolbars.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Thank you for your reply.

would do better to replace the New button with one representing the
FileNewDialog command and educate users to select the company letter
template from the New dialog. This will create a document based on that
template and containing all its styles and formatting as well as the custom
toolbars.

I like the idea above stated by you. However, would it be possible if i do
the following.

say i have created a template called mycompany.dot. In this template (main
template i call), there is a new toolbar designed for the company. In the
toolbar, we have mycompany_coverfax, mycompany_letter listed in the menu. All
of these are macros. So when a user opens up the template - mycompany, they
can see the toolbar and they can choose to open whether coverfax or letter.
Once they made the selection to open coverfax, the coverfax document comes up
and the mycompany document is closed. This is my initial intention but i need
your advise on this. If this is ok, i need to ask how i would write codes for
macros to open up coverfax template or letter template.

Thank you in advance

 

[Graham Mayor]

That would be possible, but it is re-inventing the wheel, when the dialog
Suzanne suggested already offers that.
However use your template as a global template to make the toolbar available
to all documents. The code for each type of document would be similar to

Documents.Add Template:="D:\Word Templates\Letter Heads\Letter.dot"

insert your own path and template name(s)

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Right. He's already got the template installed as a global template, so that
part is taken care of. The toolbar could equally well be added to
Normal.dot, but in a corporate environment, a global add-in is more
appropriate.

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

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[Guest]

Thank you both Suzanne and Graham for your replies.

I have executed the code you gave, Graham, and it works well.

Yes, you're right, Suzanne. i've got the template as global already.

The other problem i'm facing here now is I don't know how to set the font to
Garamond for the whole document (you know - after a new document is open
based on the template, mycompany). Because at the moment, i set the font from
Times New Roman(by default) to Garamond, it only applies to the line. But if
i press enter key once or twice to get me to the next line, the font changed
back to Times New Roman. Now i know that this can be done through "start, all
programs , microsoft office, microsoft office tools, microsoft language
settings". Can this be done through the code? because i have about 8 PCs that
i'd like to implement this for our company.

Thank you in advance

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

if I'm understanding the way this is going to work, you aren't going to have
documents based on mycompany.dot, which is your global template. The
documents will be based on mycompany_coverfax.dot, mycompany_letter.dot, and
so on. These document templates should have Garamond selected as the default
font, that is, the font of the Normal style. You can change the default font
of Normal.dot to Garamond if you like, but since your new document based on
Normal.dot is just a way station, not a terminus, it really doesn't matter
there.

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

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