Attached Templates/Styles

[Andy Smith]

Hiya,

We receive documents on a daily basis from client that attach templates
and/or styles to their documents which point to their internal servers.

When we open them Word hangs for about a minute trying to find them, which
when you have hundreds of documents a day can get quite frustrating!

Is there a way I can reduce the timeout Word waits before giving up and
actually opens the document?

Thanks

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

Press Escape the moment you see the message appear. That will abort the
attempt to open the server template.

You sometimes can work around the problem by creating a local copy of the
template with the identical name as the one on the remote server. I've had
this work sometimes, but not others. But, it's always worth a try.

--

Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com