Publisher 2003 Templates do not act like Templates

[David Hollaz]

Hi.

Ever since I installed Publisher 2003, the Templates have not behaved like
templates. When I click a Template, instead of the default "New" Publisher
document, the Template itself opens up with the same name as the template. In
other words, Publisher 2003 templates simply behave like regular Publisher
documents, not like templates. (My Word 2003 templates behave normally.)

Similarly, when I open up Publisher, in the "New Publication" pane on the
left, when I click on "Templates," instead of showing my templates in my
C:\Documents and Settings\<name>\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates
it rather shows every *.pub document in the "My Documents" and the above
listed templates folder.

Why doesn't Publisher 2003 distinguish between templates and documents
created from templates?

Thanks for any help or suggestions you may have.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Are you saving the publication as a Publisher template? When you do the template
goes into the folder you mentioned in your post. The secret is to save
as...Publisher template.

 

[David Hollaz]

Hi, Mary. Thanks for your reply.

Yes, I do save them as Publisher Templates. In fact, when I save as a
template from the My Documents folder, the Save As dialog them immediately
jumps to the Templates folder to save it there as a Publisher Template.

That's what confuses me. In the Save process, it jumps to the Templates
folder, so at least at that point it does recognize it as a Template. But
when I then open such 'templates,' they display the name of the Template and
not "New Document." And, again, when I look for Templates in the "New
Publication" pane it displays all my Publisher 2003 documents as if the
program thinks they are all templates. It saves them all alike with a ".pub"
extension.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Rob Giordano [MS MVP]]

You need to save templates with .tem extension I believe.



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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression

 

[Mary Sauer]

No, templates have a .pub extension. Obviously there is some code that
recognizes a template over a regular publication. When you open a Publisher
template, edit it, you will have to save it again as a template, otherwise
Publisher will ask for a new name.

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Mary Sauer
http://msauer.mvps.org/

You need to save templates with .tem extension I believe.



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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression

 

[Rob Giordano [MS MVP]]

I was thinking of FrontPage template files...sheesh getting' old.

It's still strange that there's .doc/.dot why not .pub/.put ... that
Publisher doesn't have sep. ext for a template.



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Rob Giordano
Microsoft MVP Expression

 

[Ed Bennett]

It's still strange that there's .doc/.dot why not .pub/.put ... that
Publisher doesn't have sep. ext for a template.

That's something that I've commented to the Publisher team about.
Currently it seems that templates are not any different from regular
Publisher files, except that they are located in the Templates folder,
and Publisher has flagged something internally to indicate that they are
templates (since last time I checked, simply dropping a file into the
Templates folder didn't turn it into a template).