Templetes and Macros!

[Mahmoud Salameh]

I have a number of templates in a shared folder on the
network (not under C:\Microsoft
office .......templates). If I use Explorer to open the
templates they open a copy of the template which is how a
template shld work. But if I am in Word and try to open
one of the templates, the original template opens up and
gets overwritten unless the user disables macros. Can
you tell me what I can do to resolve this so that users
just get a copy of the template rather than the original
itself and do not have to decide on whether to disable or
enable macros?

Please send me the answer soon if you knows and let us
keep in touch.

 

[Mahmoud]

-----Original Message-----
I have a number of templates in a shared folder on the
network (not under C:\Microsoft
office .......templates). If I use Explorer to open the
templates they open a copy of the template which is how a
template shld work. But if I am in Word and try to open
one of the templates, the original template opens up and
gets overwritten unless the user disables macros. Can
you tell me what I can do to resolve this so that users
just get a copy of the template rather than the original
itself and do not have to decide on whether to disable or
enable macros?

Please send me the answer soon if you knows and let us
keep in touch.
.

 

[Bill Foley]

If you open Word and click "File", "Open", you will be opening the template
to work on it, not use it to create a new document. if you open Windows
Explorer and double-click on the template file, you open a document based on
the template. This is the way it is supposed to work. The only way to open
a document based on the template from within Word is to do a "File", "New".
However, it looks for the templates folder, not your "other" folder.

You can click "Tools", "Options", click the "File Locations" TAB and change
the "Workgroup Templates" path to the one you mention. Then when you click
"File", "New", the templates will show up in the "General" TAB.

If you really want to get fancy, you can use a document management system.
I have a site with instructions and a sample if you want to check it out:

http://www.pttinc.com/doc_management.html