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Bhavin Shah
Hi there,
Koms is my coleague and we both failed to understand the answer given by Bob..
Here is the simple way of reproducing our problem which will give u a better
idea about the actual problem..
Follow the steps below..
1. Open a blank word 2007 document and SaveAs "xyz.dotm" (macro enabled
template) at the following location: C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\Office12\Starup
(this template does not need to have any macros in it..)
2. Now open a blank word document and leave it open... (first instance of
word 2007 document)
3. And now goto Start -> Run and type the following command "winword /w"
(this command will start a second instance of word 2007 document and opens a
blank document)
PROBLEM -- you will notice a dialog box saying the template (XYZ.DOTM in the
startup folder) is locked for editing ...!!
4. Our question is this behaviour is abnormal as compared with the previous
the versions of word where we have our templates (.dot) files at the same
Starup location and no matter how many instances we create of word document
there were no such dialog boxes..
-- is this something new from Microsoft with .dotm (or .dotx) templates or
is this a bug of Microsoft Word 2007
... PLS HELP US ..
thx
Billy
Koms is my coleague and we both failed to understand the answer given by Bob..
Here is the simple way of reproducing our problem which will give u a better
idea about the actual problem..
Follow the steps below..
1. Open a blank word 2007 document and SaveAs "xyz.dotm" (macro enabled
template) at the following location: C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\Office12\Starup
(this template does not need to have any macros in it..)
2. Now open a blank word document and leave it open... (first instance of
word 2007 document)
3. And now goto Start -> Run and type the following command "winword /w"
(this command will start a second instance of word 2007 document and opens a
blank document)
PROBLEM -- you will notice a dialog box saying the template (XYZ.DOTM in the
startup folder) is locked for editing ...!!
4. Our question is this behaviour is abnormal as compared with the previous
the versions of word where we have our templates (.dot) files at the same
Starup location and no matter how many instances we create of word document
there were no such dialog boxes..
-- is this something new from Microsoft with .dotm (or .dotx) templates or
is this a bug of Microsoft Word 2007
... PLS HELP US ..
thx
Billy