Word 2003 Templates Dialogue box...advise...

[Guest]

Hi
I have been trying to get more user friendly with Word 2003...any advise
would be great...thanks......

At the moment when I open word It opens with a blank document....can I stop
this?

Question 1
I would rather when I click on the word Icon......the Template dialogue box
open. I can then choose from my customised tabs what template I want to open.

Question 2
I recorded four word template as macros. I configured them as keyboard
shortcuts. CTRL1 , CTRL2, CTRL4, CTRL4

Does this choice of shortcuts interfere with any standard keyboard shortcuts
within word or office....could I cause a problem using these above
shortcuts?.....just wondering if I may have overlooked something!

 

[Guest]

See: http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/

 

[Guest]

Hi Carol
Thanks for the link...nice link.
The only thing is I can't spot the section that answers my questions within
the site....
could you post a couple of shortcuts ...

Thanks
Dermot

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

As to the shortcuts, Ctrl+1 is by default assigned to SpacePara1 (that is,
single spacing) and Ctrl+2 to double spacing. Ctrl+3 and Ctrl+4 are assigned
to LockField and UnlockField respectively. If you won't be wanting to use
those shortcuts for those functions, then there's no harm in reassigning
them to your macros.

For a different approach, you can create a desktop shortcut for a specific
document template; double-clicking on it will create a document based on
that template. Once Word is running, however, clicking on the New button
will still create a new document based on Normal.dot; you can't get around
that. A better approach, therefore, is to substitute a New... button using
the FileNewDialog command, which opens the File | New dialog. Put your four
templates on the General tab and train users to use that instead.

If you want the File New dialog to open when you start Word, you can add the
FileNewDialog command to an AutoExec macro, which runs on Word startup.
Adding \n to the command line used to start Word will open it without a
blank document.

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

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[Charles Kenyon]

See http://addbalance.com/word/templatesmenu.htm for some approaches.


--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide


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[Guest]

Thnks for your explanations again Suzanne
This is great
Have a nice day
Dermot

 

[Guest]

Hello Charles
Thanks very much for the link to your site.
Lots of goodies here
Best wishes
Dermot