MSWord - Auto Populate Templates Tab(s) from a cental folder?

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Brendan

Don't know if this goes here or in another Microsoft Category:

We have about 30 computers in our company and have created numerous
templates for various uses. The templates have been placed in a central
location on one of the servers in a directory called FORMS. There are also
four sub-directories that contain various forms (for navigation purposes).

Two Current Problems:
1. Many of the non-computer type users have to right click on the specific
template or document and Save-As in order to save the template to a document
file. This is because the document opens up in Internet Explorer.
2. The current folder, when navigated to via our Intranet (not internet) is
very raw looking.

What I would like to do is have each user of MS Word be able to access these
templates directly from their local template directory (ie. File, New, From
Computer). Is there a way to create a script that would populate a user’s
template directory with the forms?

The script would have to check for a directory named “Company†and then
populate it with the templates from a specific directory where I keep all of
the templates. If the directory was not found, it would create it then
populate it. I want the user to have a tab in the templates directory named
“Company†where all of our custom templates can be pulled from.

OR is there a way to create the director called “Company†and have it point
to a specific directory where I only control and house the templates. Having
it point to a specific directory would be easier in theory because the
template could be changed on the “fly†but I don’t know if that is possible.

Also, how many "Tabs" can actually be created in the Word Template
Directory? Can sub Tabs
 
J

jaf

Hi Brendan,
Open word.
Do tools>options>file locations tab.
Click on "workgroup templates" and add your folder on the server.

You can record a macro while doing this and send the word doc containing the
macro to your users to run.
 

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