Workgroup templates

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Nicky at Meridian

I have created several documents in a folder for use as templates on a
network with the workgroup templates folder on each users machine pointing to
this folder. I have not yet saved them all as "Document Templates", they are
just "Word Docs" at the moment. Can someone tell me if these actually need
to saved as templates and the Word Docs deleted? I have had a trial run and
cannot see any difference between to the two. The whole idea is to be able
to open a document to edit without accidentally saving over it and both seem
to do this.
 
Hi Cindy

I was under the impression that templates could only be opened by File/New
and did not realise they can also be opened via Explorer and Word. My
concern here is that when you open a template via Explorer and File/New a new
document is created based upon the template whereas opening the same in Word
actually opens the template and could easily be written over. Is there
anyway of making this foolproof?

You help is appreciated - thanks in anticipation.
 
Hi Cindy

Thank you for explaining things. For now I have saved all the documents as
templates and have also made the folder "read only" to ensure the files are
not overwritten whichever way they are accessed.

Thank you for your help.
 
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