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How to save a Global Template?
What exact steps are needed to save a Global Template?
I have read the Checkbox Template Notes document and the one on templates at the addbalance.com website (both very informative). However, I am still unclear on the exact steps to achieve this. I saved it as CheckboxTemplate.dot into my User Templates folder and then used Templates & Add-ins Add and it looked like it added it to a global template (it was listed with a check mark in the box like the Adobe ones listed). But when I try to add the Check Marks it did not show the option. Then I tried another approach. Through Tools Options, I found the location of the Startup for Word, and copied the CheckboxTemplate.dot to that folder. Closed Word, opened it up, and when I went to View Toolbars the CheckBox Toggle toolbar was not listed. Help pls. All I want to be able to do is add check-able boxes to my fax cover page(without creating a whole form)! Working on a stand-alone WP2000 on XP. TIA! |
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How to save a Global Template?
If you have saved the template to the Word Startup Directory, (Usually
c:\Documents and Settings\[username\Application Data\Microsoft\Word\Startup, then after you start Word, when you select Toolbars from the View menu, you should see a Checkbox Toggles item on the list. If you check that item. the Checkbox Toggles toolbar should be displayed . If it is not, take a look under ToolsTemplates and Add-Ins and make sure that it appears in the list and that it has a checkmark against it. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "klam" wrote in message ... What exact steps are needed to save a Global Template? I have read the Checkbox Template Notes document and the one on templates at the addbalance.com website (both very informative). However, I am still unclear on the exact steps to achieve this. I saved it as CheckboxTemplate.dot into my User Templates folder and then used Templates & Add-ins Add and it looked like it added it to a global template (it was listed with a check mark in the box like the Adobe ones listed). But when I try to add the Check Marks it did not show the option. Then I tried another approach. Through Tools Options, I found the location of the Startup for Word, and copied the CheckboxTemplate.dot to that folder. Closed Word, opened it up, and when I went to View Toolbars the CheckBox Toggle toolbar was not listed. Help pls. All I want to be able to do is add check-able boxes to my fax cover page(without creating a whole form)! Working on a stand-alone WP2000 on XP. TIA! |
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How to save a Global Template?
Hi Doug,
I guess spending hours on this paid off as I actually understand what you are talking about! And it confirmed that I was doing the right things...I was very confused getting there. After having the weekend to digest it all and reading your reply I wrote a long reply listing my actions step by step and then I realized what I should check out. Voila! It worked! (I always search for others' posts to solve my problems before I post myself, so I'll detail what troubleshooting I did to help others who might do the same: After I confirmed from reading DR's reply that I had done the right things, I thought there must be something wrong with the file I saved so I opened the .dot file using Explore and checked under View Toolbars to see if the Checkbox Toggle option was available. It wasn't so I went to my original unzipped download and opened it again. The author's name was the original author's (CKK), however *somehow* when I saved it the first time, it had changed the author's name to mine. I guess this should have been my first clue, but I didn't think anything of it (as I was trying to read (get thru) the document and the reference doc on templates). I then deleted the CheckboxTemplate.dot file in Word Startup and did it again and when I open a new document now, it works!). Thx a mint for your help Doug!! (And to Charles Kyle Kenyon for providing the solution!) klam "Doug Robbins" wrote: If you have saved the template to the Word Startup Directory, (Usually c:\Documents and Settings\[username\Application Data\Microsoft\Word\Startup, then after you start Word, when you select Toolbars from the View menu, you should see a Checkbox Toggles item on the list. If you check that item. the Checkbox Toggles toolbar should be displayed . If it is not, take a look under ToolsTemplates and Add-Ins and make sure that it appears in the list and that it has a checkmark against it. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "klam" wrote in message ... What exact steps are needed to save a Global Template? I have read the Checkbox Template Notes document and the one on templates at the addbalance.com website (both very informative). However, I am still unclear on the exact steps to achieve this. I saved it as CheckboxTemplate.dot into my User Templates folder and then used Templates & Add-ins Add and it looked like it added it to a global template (it was listed with a check mark in the box like the Adobe ones listed). But when I try to add the Check Marks it did not show the option. Then I tried another approach. Through Tools Options, I found the location of the Startup for Word, and copied the CheckboxTemplate.dot to that folder. Closed Word, opened it up, and when I went to View Toolbars the CheckBox Toggle toolbar was not listed. Help pls. All I want to be able to do is add check-able boxes to my fax cover page(without creating a whole form)! Working on a stand-alone WP2000 on XP. TIA! |
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How to save a Global Template?
With respect I don't understand what you are trying to do. Any templates
you save in your User Templates folder (Tools, Options, File Locations) ought to show up when you click File, New--and depending on your veroisn of Word you may have to tell Word that the templates are on your computer (duh!). If you want to add something to your Fax Cover Template or change something in it, you ought to open that template itself and make the changes. You don't have to create a new template, although you can accomplish the same thing by just opening a new document based on that template, making the changes and then saving it as a template--which, for Word I guess technically amounts to a new template. Maybe I don't understand the "Global" part, in which case I apologize. But the only "global" template I know of is Normal.dot. That is the thing Word often asks me if I want to modify--usually a sure sign Word did something nasty behind my back. I am not really sure what these other things--like Templates & Addins--are for. Hey there is one heck of a lot about Word I don't understand. Some of it is utterly beyond me. Like macros. Tried to read 2 books on the subject (one of them was for beginners!!!) and decided there are certain mysteries some us are just not meant to plumb. But I certainly have modified my own fax cover templates--many times, in fact--and this is how I have done it without any problems. And I have made changes to Normal.dot this way, too. "klam" wrote in message ... What exact steps are needed to save a Global Template? I have read the Checkbox Template Notes document and the one on templates at the addbalance.com website (both very informative). However, I am still unclear on the exact steps to achieve this. I saved it as CheckboxTemplate.dot into my User Templates folder and then used Templates & Add-ins Add and it looked like it added it to a global template (it was listed with a check mark in the box like the Adobe ones listed). But when I try to add the Check Marks it did not show the option. Then I tried another approach. Through Tools Options, I found the location of the Startup for Word, and copied the CheckboxTemplate.dot to that folder. Closed Word, opened it up, and when I went to View Toolbars the CheckBox Toggle toolbar was not listed. Help pls. All I want to be able to do is add check-able boxes to my fax cover page(without creating a whole form)! Working on a stand-alone WP2000 on XP. TIA! |
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How to save a Global Template?
Any macros/toolbars in a template that is saved into the Word Start-Up
folder (usually located in C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Microsoft\Word\Startup) are available globally for use in all documents, regardless of the template from which the individual documents are created. In this instance, that is what the OP means by Global Template. If you select Templates and Add-ins from the Tools menu, you will see a section of the dialog for Global templates and add-ins. Note that the normal.dot template is not listed in that section of the dialog and it is not correct to consider it as a "global" template. Rather, it is the default template that is used for a document when the "New blank document" button on the toolbar is used to start a new document or when the Blank document template is selected in the FileNew dialog -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Joe McGuire" wrote in message ... With respect I don't understand what you are trying to do. Any templates you save in your User Templates folder (Tools, Options, File Locations) ought to show up when you click File, New--and depending on your veroisn of Word you may have to tell Word that the templates are on your computer (duh!). If you want to add something to your Fax Cover Template or change something in it, you ought to open that template itself and make the changes. You don't have to create a new template, although you can accomplish the same thing by just opening a new document based on that template, making the changes and then saving it as a template--which, for Word I guess technically amounts to a new template. Maybe I don't understand the "Global" part, in which case I apologize. But the only "global" template I know of is Normal.dot. That is the thing Word often asks me if I want to modify--usually a sure sign Word did something nasty behind my back. I am not really sure what these other things--like Templates & Addins--are for. Hey there is one heck of a lot about Word I don't understand. Some of it is utterly beyond me. Like macros. Tried to read 2 books on the subject (one of them was for beginners!!!) and decided there are certain mysteries some us are just not meant to plumb. But I certainly have modified my own fax cover templates--many times, in fact--and this is how I have done it without any problems. And I have made changes to Normal.dot this way, too. "klam" wrote in message ... What exact steps are needed to save a Global Template? I have read the Checkbox Template Notes document and the one on templates at the addbalance.com website (both very informative). However, I am still unclear on the exact steps to achieve this. I saved it as CheckboxTemplate.dot into my User Templates folder and then used Templates & Add-ins Add and it looked like it added it to a global template (it was listed with a check mark in the box like the Adobe ones listed). But when I try to add the Check Marks it did not show the option. Then I tried another approach. Through Tools Options, I found the location of the Startup for Word, and copied the CheckboxTemplate.dot to that folder. Closed Word, opened it up, and when I went to View Toolbars the CheckBox Toggle toolbar was not listed. Help pls. All I want to be able to do is add check-able boxes to my fax cover page(without creating a whole form)! Working on a stand-alone WP2000 on XP. TIA! |
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How to save a Global Template?
Normal.dot is actually superglobal. Not only is it the default document
template, but it also provides toolbars, macros, AutoText, keyboard shortcuts, and the like to all documents, even those based on other templates except when the specific document template overrides its settings. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Doug Robbins" wrote in message ... Any macros/toolbars in a template that is saved into the Word Start-Up folder (usually located in C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Microsoft\Word\Startup) are available globally for use in all documents, regardless of the template from which the individual documents are created. In this instance, that is what the OP means by Global Template. If you select Templates and Add-ins from the Tools menu, you will see a section of the dialog for Global templates and add-ins. Note that the normal.dot template is not listed in that section of the dialog and it is not correct to consider it as a "global" template. Rather, it is the default template that is used for a document when the "New blank document" button on the toolbar is used to start a new document or when the Blank document template is selected in the FileNew dialog -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Joe McGuire" wrote in message ... With respect I don't understand what you are trying to do. Any templates you save in your User Templates folder (Tools, Options, File Locations) ought to show up when you click File, New--and depending on your veroisn of Word you may have to tell Word that the templates are on your computer (duh!). If you want to add something to your Fax Cover Template or change something in it, you ought to open that template itself and make the changes. You don't have to create a new template, although you can accomplish the same thing by just opening a new document based on that template, making the changes and then saving it as a template--which, for Word I guess technically amounts to a new template. Maybe I don't understand the "Global" part, in which case I apologize. But the only "global" template I know of is Normal.dot. That is the thing Word often asks me if I want to modify--usually a sure sign Word did something nasty behind my back. I am not really sure what these other things--like Templates & Addins--are for. Hey there is one heck of a lot about Word I don't understand. Some of it is utterly beyond me. Like macros. Tried to read 2 books on the subject (one of them was for beginners!!!) and decided there are certain mysteries some us are just not meant to plumb. But I certainly have modified my own fax cover templates--many times, in fact--and this is how I have done it without any problems. And I have made changes to Normal.dot this way, too. "klam" wrote in message ... What exact steps are needed to save a Global Template? I have read the Checkbox Template Notes document and the one on templates at the addbalance.com website (both very informative). However, I am still unclear on the exact steps to achieve this. I saved it as CheckboxTemplate.dot into my User Templates folder and then used Templates & Add-ins Add and it looked like it added it to a global template (it was listed with a check mark in the box like the Adobe ones listed). But when I try to add the Check Marks it did not show the option. Then I tried another approach. Through Tools Options, I found the location of the Startup for Word, and copied the CheckboxTemplate.dot to that folder. Closed Word, opened it up, and when I went to View Toolbars the CheckBox Toggle toolbar was not listed. Help pls. All I want to be able to do is add check-able boxes to my fax cover page(without creating a whole form)! Working on a stand-alone WP2000 on XP. TIA! |
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How to save a Global Template?
With respect I don't understand what you are trying to do. Any templates
you save in your User Templates folder (Tools, Options, File Locations) ought to show up when you click File, New--and depending on your veroisn of Word you may have to tell Word that the templates are on your computer (duh!). If you want to add something to your Fax Cover Template or change something in it, you ought to open that template itself and make the changes. You don't have to create a new template, although you can accomplish the same thing by just opening a new document based on that template, making the changes and then saving it as a template--which, for Word I guess technically amounts to a new template. Maybe I don't understand the "Global" part, in which case I apologize. But the only "global" template I know of is Normal.dot. That is the thing Word often asks me if I want to modify--usually a sure sign Word did something nasty behind my back. I am not really sure what these other things--like Templates & Addins--are for. Hey there is one heck of a lot about Word I don't understand. Some of it is utterly beyond me. Like macros. Tried to read 2 books on the subject (one of them was for beginners!!!) and decided there are certain mysteries some us are just not meant to plumb. But I certainly have modified my own fax cover templates--many times, in fact--and this is how I have done it without any problems. And I have made changes to Normal.dot this way, too. "klam" wrote in message ... What exact steps are needed to save a Global Template? I have read the Checkbox Template Notes document and the one on templates at the addbalance.com website (both very informative). However, I am still unclear on the exact steps to achieve this. I saved it as CheckboxTemplate.dot into my User Templates folder and then used Templates & Add-ins Add and it looked like it added it to a global template (it was listed with a check mark in the box like the Adobe ones listed). But when I try to add the Check Marks it did not show the option. Then I tried another approach. Through Tools Options, I found the location of the Startup for Word, and copied the CheckboxTemplate.dot to that folder. Closed Word, opened it up, and when I went to View Toolbars the CheckBox Toggle toolbar was not listed. Help pls. All I want to be able to do is add check-able boxes to my fax cover page(without creating a whole form)! Working on a stand-alone WP2000 on XP. TIA! |
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