Removing Word Templates

[jay]

Hi All,

I must be getting senile in my old age, I thaught I knew how to do this
years ago.

How can the standard word templates (contempory fax etc etc etc) be removed
such that when a user clicks file > new they only see corporate templates?

regards,

Jay

 

[Howard Kaikow]

My recollection is that the additional tabs in the template dialog cannot be
removed as they are created internally by Word.

 

[Tammy]

Hi Jay,

The standard Word templates in later versions of Word have to be
uninstalled (through Control Panel etc.)

Cheers,
Tammy

 

[jay]

Thanks Tammy,

I thaught that was going to be the case, I was trying to get away without
reconfiguring individual workstations. I'm sure you used to be able to
control the templates by just deleting the dot files from
%wordsystempath%\templates (or wherever location they may be) a much better
solution imho, but there it is eh

Am looking at the other solution you posted, i'm very interested in the ini
file solution, I may well contact you for more details in due course if you
don't mind.

Kind regards,

Jay

 

[Tammy]

Hi Jay,

Earlier versions of Word did allow you to remove the templates by
physically deleting the .dot files. Not sure why they changed it! I
had the same problem trying to remove them - it took ages to work it
out.

Feel free to contact me. The ini file solution works well for us and
is nice and quick!

Cheers,
Tammy