Suzanne
Wed Oct 22 22:12:25 CDT 2003
Templates placed in the Startup folder are global templates. They make
macros, toolbars, and AutoText available to all documents--but not styles or
document formatting, which is reserved for document templates (see
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Customization/WhatTemplatesStore.htm). You can
store a document template in the user templates folder, where users can
select it and base new documents on it. If you want Word to start with a
document based on your document template, you can accomplish that in several
ways. What you can't do is make your document template replace Normal.dot
(and you *don't* want to customize Normal.dot to serve as a template for a
specific kind of document, either).
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site:
http://www.mvps.org/word
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"Moe Szyslak" <moe_szyslak@bigpond.com.news> wrote in message
news:3f973b6b$1@news.leadingedgeinternet.net.au...
> I am not sure which group that this should be posted in so I decided to
> cross post it.
>
> I have a template that I have created, which has macros, styles and font
> sizes. I have placed this in the STARTUP folder in the Microsoft Office
> Directory. but when you run word, the styles do not drop down in the menu
> from the formatting toolbar, the deault font size is not set.
>
> If you remove the template from the STARTUP folder and move it to another
> folder and double click on it, the styles appear in the drop down menu on
> the formatting toolbar, the default font size is correct.
>
> How can i accomplish all this with out renaming the template to
'normal.dot'
> or with out users double-click the template, it will just create a new
> document based on the template's found in the STARTUP folder.
>
> We are using Word 97 SR-2
>
> Thanks
> Matthew McKinnon
>
>