Word templates don't appear where they should

[Access Joe]

Hey everyone,

Using Word 2007 with Vista Enterprise.

Office button > Save As > choose the "Save as Type" of Word Template. Isn't
the folder directory automatically supposed to change to a designated
"templates" folder so I can access it from Office > New? For me, it just
stays in the My Docs folder and does nothing.

This same thing works fine in Excel and PPT, but not in Word. Any
suggestions? I can't find any settings that would modify this default save
behavior.

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

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Hey everyone,

Using Word 2007 with Vista Enterprise.

Office button > Save As > choose the "Save as Type" of Word Template.
Isn't the folder directory automatically supposed to change to a
designated "templates" folder so I can access it from Office > New?
For me, it just stays in the My Docs folder and does nothing.

This same thing works fine in Excel and PPT, but not in Word. Any
suggestions? I can't find any settings that would modify this
default save behavior.

What does it say when you check under:
Office Button > Word Options > Advanced > General (Towards the end) > File
Locations > User Templates
?

And then, when you do "Save As," doesn't Word take you to that folder when
you select "Trusted Templates" under "Save in:" on the left hand side?

Also, have you modified anything in "Trusted Locations"?

 

[Graham Mayor]

No. Unlike earlier versions, Word 2007 can use a variety of folders marked
as trusted to store templates. You need to select the specific folder where
you wish to save your templates from the save dialog.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

With the exception that, if the template is created as a template from the
outset (by choosing Template instead of Document), Word will default to the
Trusted Templates folder when you first save. This procedure has the
additional advantage that template-specific content (macros, shortcuts,
etc.) will be included in the template, whereas they would not in a
document.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

 

[Tony Jollans]

True, but it's actually a little more complex than that. If you create a
template that way, the default Save location is changed to the Templates
folder and, if you then create a new blank document it will also default to
saving in the Templates folder (depending a little on what you do in
between).

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Under Windows XP, both My Documents and Trusted Templates are in the Places
Bar, which is helpful. I have yet to figure out how the Vista substitute
works (I don't have Vista and have minimal--and frustrating--experience with
it), but presumably they're accessible there as well. This does help. Even
in Word 2003, one of the first folders I added to the Places Bar was the
Templates folder.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org