Duplicate template icons in Project Gallery

[mansky99]

Hi all,
In debugging some crashes in Word 10.1.8 on my PowerMac G4 (10.3.9), I
noticed that there are two entries in the Project Gallery for each template
we have in the "My Templates" folder.

How do I get rid of the extra icons shown in the Project Gallery? BTW,
clicking on either template icon does create a new document based on that
template. There is of course only 1 copy of the template (*.dot file) in the
"My Templates" folder.

I suspect the extra pointer to the template is causing some of the
crashes. That is, in resolving the extra pointer to the template, Word
crashes.

Is the best way to clean up the Project Gallery by running the Remove
Office script first, then to do a re-install of the entire Office suite?

Or, is there a VBA command I can run to clean up the Project Gallery?

Any tips or ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Ed

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Ed:

Project Gallery should clean itself up if you simply reboot the computer.

I am not aware of it storing file-names anywhere: it reads them from the
system when you open it.

Just make sure you do not have a shortcut or alias to some other folder that
also contains templates. If you have, Project Gallery will show both

If Project Gallery thinks it has two files, when you click on each one, it
should show you where it is.

Hope this helps

Hi all,
In debugging some crashes in Word 10.1.8 on my PowerMac G4 (10.3.9), I
noticed that there are two entries in the Project Gallery for each template
we have in the "My Templates" folder.

How do I get rid of the extra icons shown in the Project Gallery? BTW,
clicking on either template icon does create a new document based on that
template. There is of course only 1 copy of the template (*.dot file) in the
"My Templates" folder.

I suspect the extra pointer to the template is causing some of the
crashes. That is, in resolving the extra pointer to the template, Word
crashes.

Is the best way to clean up the Project Gallery by running the Remove
Office script first, then to do a re-install of the entire Office suite?

Or, is there a VBA command I can run to clean up the Project Gallery?

Any tips or ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Ed

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[mansky99]

Hi John,
I figured out what was going on. In Word's Preferences/File Locations,
both User Templates and Workgroup Templates were defined and had values that
were the same. Both pointed to /Applications/Microsoft Office X/Templates
which is the parent folder of "My Templates".

On my development platform, which did not have Workgroup Templates
defined, I defined Workgroup Templates to point to the same folder as User
Templates, and bingo, I get two of every template showing up in Project
Gallery. Initially I had only one of each template show up in Project Gallery.

These values in File Locations are all stored in the object
Options.DefaultFilePath.

Curiously, when I wrote and ran a 3 line VBA macro to re-set the Workgroup
Templates variable back to null (""), the value that got inserted was the
base folder where Word is (/Applications/Microsoft Office X). I tried other
values like my $HOME folder (/users/mansky) and root folder, as well as null.
No other value would work. Couldn't re-set to null via a VB macro, and when I
tried $HOME (for example), Word hung completely up when I tried to bring up
the Project Gallery. Had to Force Quit the Word app.

I even tried deleting the Word Settings file in
$HOME/Library/Preferences/Microsoft to no effect. After deletion, the
WorkgroupTemplates value was still the base folder where Work lives.

Seems like the only way to get null back as the value for
WorkgroupTemplates (or any other File Location that has been once defined) is
to run the RemoveOffice script and re-install Office.


Do you know any other way to re-set WorkgroupTemplates to null once it's
been defined?


Here's the snippet of VB code I used:

If (Len(Options.DefaultFilePath(Path:=wdWorkgroupTemplatesPath)) > 0) Then
Options.DefaultFilePath(Path:=wdWorkgroupTemplatesPath) = ""
End If


Ed

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Ed:

Thanks for including your name, it makes the whole place seem more friendly


That's a bug: The mechanism should be smart enough to resolve the duplicate
paths

I think if you Remove or rename ~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Word
Settings (10) that should do it. Sorry, I don't have X here to try it.

Cheers

Hi John,
I figured out what was going on. In Word's Preferences/File Locations,
both User Templates and Workgroup Templates were defined and had values that
were the same. Both pointed to /Applications/Microsoft Office X/Templates
which is the parent folder of "My Templates".

On my development platform, which did not have Workgroup Templates
defined, I defined Workgroup Templates to point to the same folder as User
Templates, and bingo, I get two of every template showing up in Project
Gallery. Initially I had only one of each template show up in Project Gallery.

These values in File Locations are all stored in the object
Options.DefaultFilePath.

Curiously, when I wrote and ran a 3 line VBA macro to re-set the Workgroup
Templates variable back to null (""), the value that got inserted was the
base folder where Word is (/Applications/Microsoft Office X). I tried other
values like my $HOME folder (/users/mansky) and root folder, as well as null.
No other value would work. Couldn't re-set to null via a VB macro, and when I
tried $HOME (for example), Word hung completely up when I tried to bring up
the Project Gallery. Had to Force Quit the Word app.

I even tried deleting the Word Settings file in
$HOME/Library/Preferences/Microsoft to no effect. After deletion, the
WorkgroupTemplates value was still the base folder where Work lives.

Seems like the only way to get null back as the value for
WorkgroupTemplates (or any other File Location that has been once defined) is
to run the RemoveOffice script and re-install Office.


Do you know any other way to re-set WorkgroupTemplates to null once it's
been defined?


Here's the snippet of VB code I used:

If (Len(Options.DefaultFilePath(Path:=wdWorkgroupTemplatesPath)) > 0) Then
Options.DefaultFilePath(Path:=wdWorkgroupTemplatesPath) = ""
End If


Ed

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