A slight variation on a theme:
I quite often want to attach a document to a template after I have created
it from a blank (Normal-based) document, or to change the template to one
that's subtly different if, for example, the document has become more
complex than was envisaged when I started off.
Within Word, you can locate templates to attach/detach them to the document
you have open via Tools menu => Templates and Add-ins. The template's name
and location shows in field at top left. To change the template on which the
document is based, click on the "Attach" button and navigate.
I made up a button on a toolbar to open the ³Templates and Add-ins² window
(that is, Tools menu => Customize => Customize toolbars/menus => Commands
button => [Categories box] Tools => [Commands box] Customize
toolbars/menus).
Cheers,
Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is at least 5 hours different from the US and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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in. Sometimes it takes a few responses before the best or complete solution
is proposed; sometimes you'll be asked for further information so that a
better answer can be provided. Good tips about getting the best out of
posting are at
http://word.mvps.org/FindHelp/Posting.htm (if you use Safari
you may see a blank page and have to hit the circular arrow icon -- "Reload
the current page" -- a few times).
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That's it ... with the possible exception of Applescript and/or VBA
shortcuts, which I'm afraid I can't help you with.
We all hope to see restored the ability to open a document from a template
via the Finder (still possible in Word for Windows). Hopefully in a future
version of MacWord.
