Save as... changes document to a template

[Ben Porter]

I have been making changes to a document (Created in Word vX) and then
saving it as a new file name. When I do the Save as..., the pane I
see has the document renamed to a .dot, with a forced location to the
"Templates" folder. If I change the file type to Word Document, and
the location to my preferred folder, I am told that I cannot change
the file type from a .dot template. But it never was a template!

Any ideas?

 

[Elliott Roper]

I have been making changes to a document (Created in Word vX) and then
saving it as a new file name. When I do the Save as..., the pane I
see has the document renamed to a .dot, with a forced location to the
"Templates" folder. If I change the file type to Word Document, and
the location to my preferred folder, I am told that I cannot change
the file type from a .dot template. But it never was a template!

Any ideas?

Look carefully at the save-as dialog box.

Near the bottom is a field for "Format". Make sure it is set to
"Microsoft Word Document" and not "Document Template"

Perhaps rather foolishly, that choice 'sticks' from previous save-as
operations.

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

Look carefully at the save-as dialog box.

Near the bottom is a field for "Format". Make sure it is set to
"Microsoft Word Document" and not "Document Template"

Perhaps rather foolishly, that choice 'sticks' from previous save-as
operations.

That's precisely what he says he can't do, since the "document" is perceived
to be a template already.

Ben, probably at the time you created the first document, you did save it by
mistake as a template, even if maybe the extension was hidden, (That's a
Finder preference.) Is that possible? It's true that Word won't let you
re-save a template as a document, and the usual ways of opening a template
(double-clicking in Finder, op File/Open) would just open the original file
- a template - in the normal way.

Try this: move the original to Microsoft Office _/Templates/My Templates.
Now, in Word, go to File/Project Gallery. Do you see the file there in the
gallery? If so, open it from there. It will open as "Document5" or whatever
- as a document - and you'll be able to save it as a .doc Word Document.

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[Ben Porter]

Thanks guys. I wound up copying the contents of the document to a
pristine document. I suspect I could have done the "My Templates"
thing as well. But copying the whole thing worked also.

Strange behavior. I am sure MS knows that I am happier with it
behaving the way it does, but I am not!