Charles
Thu Mar 30 07:54:01 CST 2006
Do not try replacing normal.dot with your own file.
You can create a global template that will intercept Ctrl-N, FileNew and
replace the new document icon on the standard toolbar with a macro that
calls up your template. When this is placed in the Word Startup folder the
commands in your template will take effect. You would want an AutoExec macro
in your template to also close the Doc1 that is opened when Word is started
(based on normal.dot) and either have no blank page or have one based on
your template. See
http://addbalance.com/word/movetotemplate.htm for
step-by-step instructions on moving / sharing / copying / backing-up
customizations including AutoText, AutoCorrect, keyboard assignments,
toolbars, macros, etc.
This can still be defeated by a knowledgeable user.
--
Charles Kenyon
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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
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See also the MVP FAQ:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"Fred Kruger" <FredKruger@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Stefan
>
> I work for a company which has to track all documents and they have to be
> security marked depending on the content.
>
> it is not a problem with the corporate documents but people make their own
> documents and there is no audit trail with them and it is these that I
> have
> been asked to look at tightning up on.
>
> I could create the normal.dot template to include the relevant code etc to
> do this but if someone deletes the normal.dot word recreates a sterile
> version again. hence the reason for wanting to try to default to another
> template.
>
> I can rebuild word removing all the normal .dot functins for new document
> and replace them with my own short cuts and menu items but that will be
> time
> consuming so just wondered if there was another easier way around this.
>
> do you know if there is a way of checking using the wdDialogFileNew if the
> user has specified the blank document option and intercepting it there.
>
> Also will this work in word 10 and above as they react differently to word
> 8
> (97).
>
> Thanks for your heelp in this.
>
> Fred
>
> "Stefan Blom" wrote:
>
>> No, you can't specify a different default template; it must always be
>> the Normal template. You can modify Normal to a certain extent (see
>>
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/customization/CustomizeNormalTemplate.htm).
>> But why not create a template for your specific needs? For easy
>> access, you can put a shortcut to it on the desktop.
>>
>> --
>> Stefan Blom
>> Microsoft Word MVP
>>
>>
>> "Fred Kruger" wrote in message
>> news:E0CB9657-489A-44E6-AD74-DF179C2E09B5@microsoft.com...
>> > When word creates a new blank document this is created from the
>> normal.dot is
>> > there a way that this can be changed to be created from a specified
>> template.
>> >
>> > The reason for this is i need all new documents to have certain
>> styles and
>> > headers and footers included even on the most basic of documents,
>> which also
>> > have a audit trail.
>> >
>> > I can alter the Normal.dot to have these but it has massive
>> implications, it
>> > also means that if the formatting is stored in the normal template
>> if you
>> > delete the normal word will creat its own new blank one so this is
>> not an
>> > option.
>> >
>> > is there anyway that the new document template can be specified
>> other than
>> > by default ? If so how.
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks in anticipation
>> >
>> > Fred
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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