Office 2007 Templates

[Rev. Vegetable Lasagne]

I'm trying to put together a course on basic Word techiques. I thought to
make things easier for the student to see how everything works, I'd let
them use an installed template as a starting point.

It seems Microsoft got very lazy in building the templates.As a rule, they
put all the main body of the document with graphics in one control, and
there's no way to overtype anything in place like there are for all the
other, shorter sections like Company Name.

Also, graphics can't be copied if they're not in their own selectable
section.

What I did temporarily was to click on the control, which can then be
copied. Then deleted the control, then clicked on Paste/Paste
Special/Unformatted Text. Now the body appeared as text, but any formatting
is gone, which is the whole purpose of a template.

Does anyone know of a way to selectively copy parts from one of those
letter party controls?

Thanks

 

[Beth Melton]

Are you referring to the various Report templates? If that's the case then
what you are seeing is simply placeholder text. When you start typing the
content, including the graphics, should be replaced. IOW, they were never
intended to be used in the way you are trying to use them. Once you start
typing then the Content Controls is removed as well. You wouldn't want to
keep a bunch of Content Controls in the body of this type of document. Those
in the header and on the Cover Page are fine since most of them are bound
Property fields. i.e. they also update the Document Properties.

Now, some were designed to be used in the manner you describe. The "Business
Newsletter" is an example of the type of template you are looking for. It
also contains instructions and tips on how to create a newsletter.

Additionally, the formatting isn't gone when you replace the content. The
layout and formatting you see is an example of the styles that are included
in the template. You'll find these on the Home tab in the Styles group.

I use the Reports for demonstrating bound Property fields (company, author,
etc), Building Blocks, Themes, Live Preview, Quick Style Sets, etc. And it's
a great demonstration of the new functionality for Word 2007. Once they see
how their documents created in Word *should* function they are more eager to
learn how to use Word properly and not treat it as a glorified typewriter.
;-)

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email cannot be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/9801.aspx#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

 

[Rev. Vegetable Lasagne]

Some are better than others for showing users how to do things. Some
have nice text sections built in, but all the information gets erased as
soon as you type one character.

I managed to find a few that worked for documentation though. Copy and
paste to another doc for reference is a good idea, or printing before
making any changes..

Thanks, Ray