Workgroup templates in networked folders - help!

[Tom]

We store our company shared document templates on a Windows PC that has
shared folders. For security reasons, access to the shared folders is
password protected. Since we put the passwords on the folders, the user PCs
do not seem to be able to 'remember' where the workgroup templates are
stored. We set them in the normal way on the users' PCs (in Word:
Options/File Locations/Workgroup templates). When set, they work fine, until
the PC is rebooted - then the entry is empty. We have tried creating a batch
file that runs on power up to connect the PC to the shared folders on the
network (using 'net use'), but this has not worked either. We are using Word
2000 (Office 2000) on Win 98, 2000 Pro, XP Home and Pro.

Any help would be welcome.

Regards

Tom

 

[Graham Mayor]

The Word 2000 workgroups folder entry is written to the SharedTemplates
registry sub key of
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Common\General.
I don't know why the entry is being lost, but maybe you could rewrite the
registry key as part of the batch?

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