Templates and Add-ins

[Roderick O'Regan]

I've been working on a template for a client which is stored in its
own folder on a drive other than C:

This template has its own toolbar which appears and disappears when
creating documents based on this template.

For some reason this template is being loaded as an add-in and its
toolbar appears on startup.

I can remove the template from the Templates and Add-ins menu item but
as soon as I re-start Word it appears again.

How can I prevent my client's template from loading as an add-in every
time I start Word, please?

Regards

Roderick O'Regan

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Remove it from Word's Startup folder and put it in the user templates
folder.

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

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[Roderick O'Regan]

Thanks Suzanne for the reply.

I've tried this. Created a "squeaky clean" startup folder with nothing
in it. No luck.

Then created two more folders, one for user templates and one for
workgroup ones. Presumably Word will re-create a new copy of Normal in
the the user templates folder.

Now it worked OK. Disappeared. Therefore I'm presuming it is the
original Normal template which must have gone wobbly. Will
investiigate this further.

Thanks

Roderick

 

[Shauna Kelly]

Hi Roderick

The normal.dot doesn't affect what you're seeing. What you're seeing is
managed by these two settings:

1. At Tools > Options > File Locations, Word stores the location of its User
Templates folder and the Workgroup Templates folder. These folders are for
templates on which you wish to base a document. When you do File > New, Word
displays all the templates in those two folders.

2. At Tools > Options > File Locations stores the location of its Startup
folder. Any .dot file in that folder (or, any .dot file to which there is a
shortcut in that folder) will be loaded into Word as an add-in when Word
starts.

Note that when you change the setting at Tools > Options > File Locations >
Startup, you have to exit Word and then re-start Word for the change to come
into effect.

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word