No, actually, it is not a bug, but it is a changed behaviour
When you double-click a template in Word, you are SUPPOSED to get a new
document, "based on" (and "attached to") the template.
When you use File>Open, you are supposed to open the template directly for
editing.
This behaviour has been wrong in Mac Word going back a few versions.
Someone thought the old behaviour was "Mac Like". Well, it may have been,
but it also meant that it because impossible to "use" templates on the Mac
in a corporate setting.
So with Office 2008, the behaviour has been corrected. If you double-click
a template (no mater where it is...) you'll get a new document. If you use
File>Open, you will edit the template.
This is a God-send for the corporate crowd, where templates will be
scattered in dozens of different folders around the network, not neatly
contained in "My Templates". The old behaviour meant that unless the
templates were in "My Templates" or a single "Workgroup Templates" folder,
the user was completely unable to use them!
Cheers
Can anyone confirm this?
If so, I'd say it's a bug.
Every time I use Office 2008 to open a Word .dot file I created in
Office 2004 it *duplicates* the file!
The solution is to open (and inadvertently duplicate) the template, then
Save as a .dotx file.
Weird.
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