Thanks! I thought a template was a template wherever it
was! I went into options to change the work template file
location to my c:\forms\ directory. Now I have a
different problem. In my forms directory are a bunch of
subdirectories by client name. Many clients have their
own forms that they want us to use. I tried a template
that was in one of the subdirectories and it did not
correctly change the date, etc. as desired. However, when
I saved it in the c:\forms directory and then did the mail
merge, it worked! Now, the question is can I target the
file location to be the c:\forms directory AND the
C:\forms\subdirectory?

Thanks.
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If it is a template, stored in the user templates folder
or the workgroup
templates folder, and if you are creating a new document
based on it (using
File New) you won't have this problem. A template is
not a document and it
is hard to store a document in a templates folder.

For more on the different kinds of templates and
locations of templates
folders see
http://addbalance.com/usersguide/templates.htm.

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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

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is
awesome!
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"Sharon" wrote in
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I queried the newsgroup about how to get my date to
change
to the current day's date and was told to use CREATEDATE
in the template. It works great!!! Now, I have another
question. I notice that when I use the template I have
to
first save it to a directory/subdirectory AND THEN do
the
mail merge in order for the date to be created properly.
It works great, but now I have two "documents" in the
directory, the template and the doc version. In order
to
not confuse myself (or others) when they look in the
directory, I have to go back into the directory and
delete
the template. I wonder if there is another way to go
about this?


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