How automatically create new docs with a given template ?

[MoiMeme]

Hi,

I would like to systematically use a given template when I click on "new
document" button or select file->new document

How can I achieve that ? Now I always have a blank document or have to use
file->new->templates menu ( online / on the pc ...)

TIA !

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

One easy way is to put a shortcut to the template on your desktop.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[MoiMeme]

Yes but that doesn't help when already in word

One easy way is to put a shortcut to the template on your desktop.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[JoAnn Paules]

You could overwrite normal.dot with your template but I wouldn't recommend
doing that.

May I ask what is on this template that you want to appear each and every
time you open Word?

 

[Terry Farrell]

If you let me have your email address, I'll send you a copy of a FAQ that is
waiting to be published on the MVP FAQ site. It shows you how to put the old
File New dialog onto your Toolbar bereft of all the unwanted Microsoft
Templates so that one click gives you the dialog to select your template.

 

[PamC via OfficeKB.com]

Yes it does. Even with Word open, double clicking a shortcut to a template
will create a new file based on that template.

Pam

Yes but that doesn't help when already in word

One easy way is to put a shortcut to the template on your desktop.

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[Phil]

I use it to :

- insert logo of my "company" in the header plus current date
- insert in the same header a left-sided column with all administrative data
( names / adresses / phone & fax / emails etc, in a frame, on the first page
only.
- have the footer display name and path of document and Page x / y

I do not want to alter normal.dot because that would have effect on private
documents or other documents wihcih I want to start blank.

TIA

You could overwrite normal.dot with your template but I wouldn't recommend
doing that.

May I ask what is on this template that you want to appear each and every
time you open Word?

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"

Yes but that doesn't help when already in word

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

What you need is a document template. There is no real need for this to be
the Blank Document based on the Normal template (and there should remain
some mechanism of getting an actual blank document, such as pressing
Ctrl+N). There is a way to start Word with a document based on a specific
template other than Normal (a command line with the \t switch), and you
could write a macro to create a new document based on that document and
assign it to the New button, but ordinarily it will suffice to have the New
button open the New/Templates dialog with your document template displayed
(two clicks as opposed to one, but it does give you more choice for every
document).

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/CreateATemplatePart1.htm for
more.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

I use it to :

- insert logo of my "company" in the header plus current date
- insert in the same header a left-sided column with all administrative
data
( names / adresses / phone & fax / emails etc, in a frame, on the first
page
only.
- have the footer display name and path of document and Page x / y

I do not want to alter normal.dot because that would have effect on
private
documents or other documents wihcih I want to start blank.

TIA

You could overwrite normal.dot with your template but I wouldn't
recommend
doing that.

May I ask what is on this template that you want to appear each and every
time you open Word?

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"

Yes but that doesn't help when already in word

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de
ejmGe%[email protected]...
One easy way is to put a shortcut to the template on your desktop.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

Hi,

I would like to systematically use a given template when I click on
"new
document" button or select file->new document

How can I achieve that ? Now I always have a blank document or have
to
use file->new->templates menu ( online / on the pc ...)

TIA !