Accessing Windows Office Templates

[Len Ford]

There are some very nice templates at the Windows Office Template
Gallery. I would like to download (mostly Word, but a few Excel) some
of these templates, but the format comes out with a ".cab" extension
that Office v.X doesn't understand.

Is there any way to get these templates? Unfortunately, they make the
Mac template archive look very weak.

TIA

Len

 

[Jim Gordon]

Hi Len,

Microsoft has a Mac template download page:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/resources/templates.aspx?pid=templates

There's a link to the on-line gallery on that page. It looks like a newly
re-designed gallery to me. Didn't try it, though.

Microsoft has announced a new version of Office for Windows to be released
very soon. Keep your eyes open for official announcements. With each
version of Office Microsoft has updated the template gallery's
functionality. There's a good chance that the gallery will be updated to
work better with Macs. It's been a very requested feature.

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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[Len Ford]

Hi Jim,

With all due respect, that was the template page I was referring to
above. ;-> It has a pretty weak template base; you can find most (if
not all) of those templates on the Office CD.

Three things then:

1) Please put a bug in the ear of the Windows Template site designer
to allow Mac users to hook in.

2) Is there a way for Mac (and Windows) Office users to post their
own free templates at MS?

3) How about consolidating the templates for both into one site? If
there is something specific to Windows, then it'll only have the
Windows download icon. If it's Mac specific, then only a Mac icon.
If it can do both have a Windows/Mac icon.

I do thank you for writing back, though! Always appreciate your help.

Len