Workgroup template and off-line documents

[Richard]

We're using network based workgroup templates. Trouble is that a lot of the
documents we create based on these templates will also need to be openend
while the viewer is not connected to the network, or not even part of the
company.

Word then tries to look for the original network location, which takes far
too long. Users complain about the speed in which the can open documents
offline.

Is there some way to have Word store the layout within the .doc file itself,
without having to relate back to an orginal .dot template file ? (apart from
the normal.dot which is present on any system with Word installed).

Really all we want is the template to push the document design only once in
the beginning, but the relation to the workgroup template can be broken after
the first save. It has to detach from the template so to speak.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

See the article "Distributing macros to other users" at:

http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/DistributeMacros.htm


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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/templaterelations/index.html

 

[Richard]

Hmm this is new for me.

It says after creation there no longer is a connection to the orginal
template or template location. Only it's properties have been inhereted.

So why is it that opening a document is so much faster when I'm connected to
the network which contains the template, then it is when the template is not
available on the network ?

In Word2007 I can remove the link to the template manually, through the
inspect document option. After I resave it, the document opens much faster in
offline scenarios.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Check to make sure that "Automatically update document styles" is not
checked in the Templates and Add-ins dialog. That said, I think documents do
still look for their templates, and the more space they have to look for
them (network as opposed to local HD), the longer it takes.