There are a number of advantages. Word is designed to work from templates,
not document to document. If you are using documents as repositories of text
and formatting only it probably won't make a difference.
Using templates lets you have a central repository of styles, AutoText,
macros, toolbars and other user interface modifications. If you aren't using
those, you don't need templates. (If you aren't using those, you might be as
well off using Word Pad.)
For more on the different kinds of templates and locations of templates
folders see <URL:
http://addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm>.
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Charles Kenyon
Word New User FAQ & Web Directory:
<URL:
http://addbalance.com/word/index.htm>
Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide)
<URL:
http://addbalance.com/usersguide/index.htm>
See also the MVP FAQ: <URL:
http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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Danny Pacheco said:
I currently work in a document control environment, which all our company
proceudres are based on our predefined styles/formats saved as
documents(doc) with a template as an attachment, not an actual template.
When a staff member requests for a procedure type document to draft, we open
our predefined document, save it under a different name, and send it to the
user. My question is, is there a higher advantage using a template (dot)
vs. a document (doc)? Please explain.
