Template fields not useable in new doc created from template.dot

[Guest]

My template ask and fill-in fields don't function in a new doc.
The .dot template has text and the fields. New docs created from the .dot
file show the file, not the ask or fill-in boxes for user to enter the unique
information.
I've read for hours & still don't get it.
Thanks

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?SnVsaQ==?=,

My template ask and fill-in fields don't function in a new doc.
The .dot template has text and the fields. New docs created from the .dot
file show the file, not the ask or fill-in boxes for user to enter the unique
information.
I've read for hours & still don't get it.

Which version of Word are you working with?

Can you describe how you create a new document from your template (just to make
sure we're on the same wave-length)?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
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[Guest]

I so appreciate your help. Here's what I do:
----Open a new doc and save as a .dot template in templates folder.
----Enter boiler plate, and insert ask fields (with ref fields) and fill-in
fields.
----Save (as documentname.dot).

Hmm, I see where you may be going with your question.
To create a new document I open the template, and get the template itself,
without being asked to answer or fill-in the unique info. I don't know how
else to do it.

Several in our office are stuck on this and look forward to your answer.
Juli

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You should not be opening the template. The default action for templates (in
Windows Explorer) should be New, and of course if you store the template in
the user templates/workgroup templates folder and use File | New to create a
document, you'll get a .doc by default.

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Words into Type
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[Cindy M.]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?SnVsaQ==?=,

To create a new document I open the template, and get the template itself,
without being asked to answer or fill-in the unique info. I don't know how
else to do it.

Besides Suzanne's suggestion: try double-clicking it in Windows Explorer

Fill-in fields should display automatically; ASK fields will not (by design).

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Guest]

Suzanne,
Sorry to be dense. You are saying I need to open the new doc a special way,
but what exactly do I do, once I have saved the template.
thanks for your patience

 

[Graham Mayor]

You do exactly what was suggested in the previous post. From the file menu
select New. Pick your template and a new document is created from it.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you save a template as a template, Word should automatically save it in
the default template location, which is also the path given for "User
templates" on the File Locations tab of Tools | Options. If your template is
not saved in that folder (or a subfolder thereof), it won't appear in the
File New dialog.

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Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Cindy M.]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?SnVsaQ==?=,

When I enter File, New, my choices do not include the template I have
created. And I could use a bit of handholding re: the references to Windows
Explorer and how to open a file from File New in it.
Perhaps my problem has to do with how or where I am saving the .dot file. My
computer also has work-specific software, Amicus and Hummingbird DocsOpen,
which may be complicating things.

Well, if you use Windows Explorer to navigate to the place where the *.dot file
is saved, just double-click it. The default installation settings should create
a new document when you double-click.

In Word: Tools/Options/File locations, the settings for "User Template" and
"Workgroup templates" define what appears in the "New" dialog box. Since you
still haven't told us which version of Word you're using, I can't determine
where you are when you do File/New. You have to give us that information if you
want accurate assistance.

I have no idea if Amicus and DocsOpen change how Word functions; I suspect they
do. You may need to contact your IT department and ask them where and how to
store your own templates so that they're available from within Word.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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