Word templates not opening as new documents

Anonymous
2022-02-07T06:40:36+00:00

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/word-templates-not-opening-as-new-documents/36dd51b5-b434-4f2b-85be-3db9aebd45eb?page=6

The thread was closed after this last post. Registry edits were suggested. That sounds quite easy compared to dealing with the ongoing file save problem.

Would you please tell me how to manually correct the file associations in the registry?

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-02-10T03:51:34+00:00

    Dropbox says, "This item might not exist or is no longer available."

    Let me ask... For years, all I had to do is click a .dotm in our templates folder. Word would open it as an unnamed .docm. So if I set the "save as" folder, opening and saving was simply click, ctrl-s, click. Literally a 5 second operation.

    Then Windows/Office update comes along, and now, I need to click-file, save-as, browse, save-as-type, save. I write reports endlessly and this has become such a pain in the neck.

    Regardless, on all desktops, the first and super-quick method still works. So 'what should happen' is what the desktop installations are doing.

    How is that anything but the laptop Office installation?

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  2. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2022-02-09T22:30:20+00:00

    I have uploaded two videos to the following folder of my OneDrive

    https://onedrive.live.com/?id=5AEDCB43615E886B%219881&cid=5AEDCB43615E886B

    One shows the result of double clicking on the template and the using File>Save As to save it when the "Save files in this format:" option is set to Word Document (*.docx)

    The other shows the result of changing that option to "Word Macro-Enabled Document (*.docm) and then creating a document from the template and using File>SaveAs to save it.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-02-09T20:59:37+00:00

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-02-09T20:46:34+00:00

    I mentioned earlier that it pulls data from an Access db and populates form fields. We've used them as is for years.

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  5. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2022-02-09T10:22:04+00:00

    If you send me a copy of the macro-enabled template, referencing this thread in the covering email message, I will investigate the issue.

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