Word 2010 and Template Locations

Anonymous
2011-02-24T03:35:40+00:00

Word 2003 by default saved any document I designated as a template (*.dot) in a predetermined location set up in Location of Files.  I have noted that Word 2010 also saves user templates to a location in Location of Files (oddly it is in a folder called "roaming." something I usually assocate with my cell phone rather than my computer).  However, notwithstanding this setting Word 2010 saves my templates wherever it chooses.  I noticed this after creating a template and then immediately trying to use it--and it wasn't "there."  That is, it did not show up in File/New/Templates.  Gone!  That is, gone until I ran a search for it and found it.  This time I found it in the folder I was working in when I decided to create the new template.  Am  I missing something here?  Is the Location of Files setting subject to other unknown (at least to me) conditions?  There may be fine reasons to choose to store templates in a location different from the setting but since they won't be accessible in the usual way (File/New/Templates etc.) it would probably be a very unique reason.  I lost another template or two previously but I figured it was my own fault for not saving them correcty--until they showed up in the same search! 

Joe McGuire

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Charles Kenyon 171K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2012-07-13T16:01:51+00:00

I agree with you that having to activate the Developer Tab is a pain as is the routine hiding of both system files and filename extensions.

As to the new form fields, I have mixed feelings. The Add-In from Greg Maxey at Add Classic FormField Controls to Ribbon certainly helps. It essentially gives you the old Forms toolbar in a Ribbon group including the lock toggle.

See also: File New Variations in the Versions of Word

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Suzanne S Barnhill 279.4K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2011-02-24T05:07:57+00:00

The difference is that Word no longer defaults to the user templates folder when you save a template. This is touted as a benefit, though I don't really see how it is. If you want the template to appear in the New dialog (assuming you've figured out how to even make that appear), you do have to save it in the default template location. There's some info about this at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924460, but it probably won't tell you more than you have already discovered.

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  1. Suzanne S Barnhill 279.4K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2013-05-07T23:07:37+00:00

    I don't think you ever expressed this as a goal. If you had, someone would have given you the steps to change the default template location--or pointed you to the reply in this thread that had already given them. Indeed, if you had read the entire thread before posting, you would have had the solution to your problem.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-06-25T07:32:08+00:00

    If I create a template and save it.. I dont want the default document path for saving it. I want word to use the template path he user has set.

    Is there a possibilitie to set word to save templates where the User has set his templates are?

    Regards

    Rolf

    PS Anyway is there a reason Word does not want to save User Created templates in the user defined templates path by default? Seems not clever..

    My Users dont know where they have their templates .. They want to klick saveas template and have it at the right place.

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  3. Charles Kenyon 171K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2013-06-25T14:42:48+00:00

    I agree with you that this is how it should be. It is not how it is and there is not setting to make it so in recent versions of Word.

    See Suzanne's post on making the templates folder available as a favorite. On my browser that is on the second page of the thread. That is the best I can think of until Word 2020 comes out. (There is no Word 2020, I'm being sarcastic.)

    Please note that you have posted at the end of a very long thread. You are more likely to get help when you create a new question, possibly with a link to the old thread.

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