Look at the templates.htm article. You can put folders in your workgroup
templates folder. These will show up as tabs under File New.

A template is a template regardless of where it is stored. However, it is
almost certain you were opening your templates rather than creating new
documents based on them. This is easy to do if you store templates in a
documents folder.
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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 message
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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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