Templates Word 2007 Refresh Content Control Fields

[Guest]

I am creating a template in Word 2007 with content controls. If I open the
template to use it and then save it as .doc I lose the ability to use that
form over say if I want to do 5 of the same forms with different info one
right after the other. Do I always have to re-open the template to refresh
it or is there some way I can reactivate the template controls after saving
it as a document?

Thanks!

 

[Jay Freedman]

You're not supposed to open the template and save the edited file as
..doc. You should use the New command, not the Open command, and choose
the template as the basis for the new document. Then the template
itself will never change -- the content controls will always be empty
in each new document to start with. That's the way templates have
always worked in Word.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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