Workgroup template location legacy

[RichardW]

Our company recently migrated to a new network file structure. And now all
the old Word documents take forever to load. When opening, Word tries to
locate the original template at an UNC location (e.g.
\\server\share\templates\etc). When there is a network-connection on the PC
it takes way too long for Word to realize the template is no longer there
after which it decides to show the document anyway. This could take anywhere
between 15seconds to 5 minutes. User say this is unacceptable, which of
course it is.

New documents, or documents in which you change the old template location to
the new one after opening and save, no longer have this problem. That is
until we decide to change the filestructure, or server-name, again. Luckily
we use Dfs now so the filestructure is likely to ever change, but it could
still happen.

I'm looking for a global setting in Word to NOT try to look for the orginal
template, and simply show the document. I've searched everywhere but it came
up emtpy. Except writing a VB script the removes this MetaData for which
every Document has to be opened by the script and resaved.

Surely there must be another way. Perhaps even using Word2007 if it can only
be done in that version.

Greetings
Richard

 

[Beth Melton]

You might try obtaining the hotfix described in this article and make sure
you activate the fix (described later in the article in Part 2) and see if
that resoves the issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823372

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email cannot be acknowledged.

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Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out:
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