How do I set up a default save option for templates?

[llanelliboy]

I have set up a load of templates for my company.

When some of them are being used, they default to "document template" in the
'Save as' box instead of 'word document'.

Is there a way to stop this as I keep having to redo a lot of them.

Thanks in advance

 

[Graham Mayor]

Are they being used *properly* i.e. by creating new documents from them, or
are users simply opening them to work on?
As a new document has no name the normal way of saving it is to use Save
rather than SaveAs. This will give you the default file type set in Options.

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[llanelliboy]

We're using hyperlinks from a directory I set up in a word document.

Should we be using the "File. New" method?

 

[Graham Mayor]

The default action for clicking a template should be to create a new
document. You have no means of controlling that remotely, so if the template
is opened for editing then it is inevitable that the system will screw up. A
toolbar with macros that create new documents may be a better plan (though
then you have to persuade people to accept the macros).

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