Normal and My Templates

[Elliott Roper]

Why are these files in the system wide /Applications directory tree?

After my TiBook went walkies on the Brussels Metro, I have been
timesharing my wife's Pismo while waiting to see if the next generation
Powerbook rumours are true. (separate accounts)

Mi templates su templates. Sometimes useful, mostly not.

Am I doing something wrong? Is there a method for several users to have
their own normals on the one machine? Private templates?

Fortunately, because the Pismo is a hand-me-down, I'm the administrator
account. But divorce is loooming.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Hi Elliott,

Why are these files in the system wide /Applications directory tree?

After my TiBook went walkies on the Brussels Metro, I have been
timesharing my wife's Pismo while waiting to see if the next generation
Powerbook rumours are true. (separate accounts)

Mi templates su templates. Sometimes useful, mostly not.

Am I doing something wrong? Is there a method for several users to have
their own normals on the one machine? Private templates?

THANK YOU!!! I keep on saying that templates shoudl go to
~/Documents/Microsft User Data and I am quite glad to see someone agrees
;-)))

Fortunately, because the Pismo is a hand-me-down, I'm the administrator
account. But divorce is loooming.

I see one possibility: Create different templates (one for each of you)
and ask Word to "create new documents from template". You can even use
the Project Gallery for that.


Corentin

 

[Elliott Roper]

THANK YOU!!! I keep on saying that templates shoudl go to
~/Documents/Microsft User Data and I am quite glad to see someone agrees
;-)))

I see one possibility: Create different templates (one for each of you)
and ask Word to "create new documents from template". You can even use
the Project Gallery for that.

That works for templates, and quite neatly too, with a bit of help from
Preferences -> FIle locations. There are user template and workgroup
template locations that should fix that. (I should have looked before
ranting). The default should have been somewhere in the ~/ tree though.
I can see how they chose to default to the /Applications tree; many
single use machines would have Normal and templates safer from
accidental damage. Perhaps the right place should have been
~/Library/Application Support/.....

However, I can't see how to have separate Normal.dot for each user.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Shudder! You are scaring me!

:->
You even have the option to run an AppleScript or a Terminal Script...
:->>

Corentin