Templates not opening as templates as word documents

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Alpha Man

A user approached me and said that: origionally when she opens a premade
template, the template opens as a template and not a word document. Is
there a way to open the template file as a document?
 
Make sure the templates are stored in the appropriate locations such as ;

C:\Documents and Settings\user89\Application
Data\Microsoft\Templates\TestStuff

or

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Templates\1033

To create a new file based on one of the templates go to File>New, then
click On My Computer in the Templates section of the Task Pane rather than
clicking the New Blank Document button (Ctrl+N). Definitely *don't* use
File>Open unles you need to actually open a template file to edit it.
 
Find out how the user is opening the template. The default action for
templates (.dot files) in Windows Explorer is New; if the default action has
been changed to Open, this needs to be fixed. The same is true for templates
in Word's File New dialog (double-clicking will open a new document based on
the template). But if the user is actually navigating to the template in
Word's File Open dialog, then the default will be to open for editing.

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

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