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CREATEDATE in TEMPLATE
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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CREATEDATE in TEMPLATE
A template should be saved in the user or workgroup template folder. New
documents should be created from the template and they will be saved in the document folder. I cannot see how you would get both in the same folder if used properly. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Sharon wrote: 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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CREATEDATE in TEMPLATE
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. -- 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! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Sharon" wrote in message ... 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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CREATEDATE in TEMPLATE
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. -----Original Message----- A template should be saved in the user or workgroup template folder. New documents should be created from the template and they will be saved in the document folder. I cannot see how you would get both in the same folder if used properly. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Sharon wrote: 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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CREATEDATE in TEMPLATE
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. -----Original Message----- 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. -- 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! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ------- -- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Sharon" wrote in message ... 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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CREATEDATE in TEMPLATE
A template *is* a template wherever it is used an Word will always recognize
it as such, but the filing system in Word is designed to use template folders defined as user template or workgroup template folders, and it is these and their sub folders that appear as tabs when you select File new. http://www.gmayor.com/Template_Locations.htm If you create a new document from a template, Createdate will always show the date that new document was created. The template will always show the date *it* was created. The simplest way of targeting the folders to save your documents is to use the 'Favorites' and/or the Places bar in Word - see http://www.gmayor.com/customize_the_word_places_bar.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Sharon wrote: 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. -----Original Message----- A template should be saved in the user or workgroup template folder. New documents should be created from the template and they will be saved in the document folder. I cannot see how you would get both in the same folder if used properly. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Sharon wrote: 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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CREATEDATE in TEMPLATE
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. -- 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! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Sharon" wrote in message ... 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. -----Original Message----- 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. -- 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! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ------- -- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Sharon" wrote in message ... 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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